A46 murder trial: Men killed 'in mother-daughter plot to hide affair'

A TikTok influencer "set a trap" that led to a antheral who was blackmailing her parent with a enactment portion being rammed disconnected the roadworthy and killed, a tribunal has heard.

Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain, some 21 from Oxfordshire, died successful the clang connected the A46 adjacent Leicester connected 11 January.

Mahek Bukhari, 23, her parent Ansreen, 45, and six others are charged with murder.

Their proceedings got nether mode astatine Leicester Crown Court connected Thursday.

The tribunal heard Mr Hussain and Ansreen Bukhari, of George Eardley Close, Stoke-on-Trent, began an matter successful 2019 but she ended it successful January 2022.

Collingwood Thompson KC, for the prosecution, said Mr Hussain had successful his possession intersexual videos and images of Ansreen Buhkari and made repeated attempts to interaction her aft she broke it off.

The tribunal heard Mr Hussain was becoming "increasingly obsessive" and was "professing his emotion for her" but showed "anger and frustration".

The barrister said: "That choler manifested itself successful an effort to blackmail Ansreen Bukhari successful bid to transportation her to interaction him.

"What helium did was to endanger to nonstop the sexually explicit worldly that existed connected his Instagram to her husband, [and] to her lad unless she agreed to talk to him."

The tribunal heard her girl - who was alert of the matter - was told of the blackmail crippled and, fearful of the interaction connected her family, arsenic good arsenic her societal media following, sent her parent a WhatsApp connection saying: "I'll soon get him jumped by guys and helium won't cognize what time it is."

The assemblage was told Mr Hussain was demanding up to £3,000 helium had spent connected dates with Ansreen Bukhari during their matter and a gathering was arranged successful Leicester to manus it over.

But alternatively than handing implicit the money, the parent and girl were plotting to prehend Mr Hussain's telephone containing the explicit material.

The Bukharis made arrangements with respective others to question with them successful 2 cars to "teach Mr Hussain a harsh lesson".

The assemblage was told Mr Ijazuddin agreed to instrumentality Mr Hussain from their location successful Banbury to the gathering successful a Tesco car parkland successful Hamilton, Leicester connected 11 January.

The tribunal heard an Audi TT and a Seat Leon with the defendants wrong pulled up.

But Mr Thompson said it soon became evident this "wasn't a mean meeting" and Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin drove distant successful their Skoda Fabia.

The Audi TT - a replacement car issued to Mahek Bukhari - had a tracking instrumentality and recorded speeds up to "100 mph" successful the consequent chase, the assemblage was told.

The tribunal was played a distressed 999 telephone made by Mr Hussein arsenic helium travelled successful the rider seat.

In the call, Mr Hussain said: "There's guys pursuing me, they person balaclavas connected … they're trying to ram maine disconnected the road.

"They're trying to termination me, I'm going to dice … delight sir, I conscionable request help.

"They're hitting the backmost of the car, truly accelerated … delight I'm begging you. I'm going to die."

A shriek was heard connected the enactment earlier it abruptly ended.

Footage from constabulary attending the clang country astatine astir 01:30 GMT showed the Skoda Fabia successful flames against a histrion successful the cardinal preservation of the A46 dual carriageway, adjacent to the Six Hills junction adjacent Leicester.

Police and firefighters discovered the remains of 2 bodies aft extinguishing the roadside blaze. Both had to beryllium identified done dental records, the tribunal heard.

Mr Thompson said: "Using the bait of returning the wealth and the imaginable of gathering Ansreen Bukhari, they acceptable a trap for Saqib Hussain.

"It would look 1 nonsubjective was to prehend Saqib's iPhone which had the videos and pictures.

"But this would inactive permission Saqib to archer Ansreen's hubby astir the affair. The Crown accidental the program had to person gone beyond seizing the iPhone.

"A mode had to beryllium recovered of silencing him of doing that … either to thatch him a harsh acquisition oregon to soundlessness him everlastingly by sidesplitting him."

The tribunal was told that the operator Mr Ijazuddin was "completely innocent" and conscionable "doing a favour for a mate."

"This tragically turned retired to beryllium a fatal mistake," Mr Thompson said. "It was a mistake that outgo an guiltless antheral his life."

The 8 defendants are each charged with 2 counts of murder, which they deny.