Mahek Bukhari: Murder-accused TikToker 'told a pack of lies' to police

A societal media influencer accused of murdering 2 men "told a battalion of lies" to constabulary implicit her engagement successful the clang that killed them, a tribunal heard.

Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain, some 21, died connected the A46 successful Leicestershire successful February 2022.

Mahek Bukhari, 23, her parent Ansreen Bukhari, 46, and six others are charged with their murder.

The prosecution said the radical rammed the brace disconnected the road to support an matter betwixt Ansreen and Mr Hussain secret.

All 8 defendants contradict 2 counts of execution and an alternate complaint of manslaughter.

Prosecutor Collingwood Thompson KC told Leicester Crown Court Mahek Bukhari had been elusive erstwhile questioned astir the fatal crash.

"Far from telling the constabulary the truth, she told a battalion of lies," helium said.

"As a societal media influencer, she nary uncertainty hoped that her skills would alteration her to merchantability a mendacious communicative to the police."

At the opening of the retrial connected Monday, the prosecution said Mr Hussain had been blackmailing his erstwhile person with intersexual videos and images from their affair.

It is claimed the defendants enticed him and his person Mr Ijazuddin to Leicester for a gathering earlier ramming their car disconnected the road, causing some men's deaths.

On Tuesday, the tribunal heard aft the clang astatine 01:35 GMT connected 11 February, constabulary worked with different forces to hint the Audi TT and Seat Leon the prosecution says were involved.

The assemblage was shown bodycam footage of officers visiting the Bukharis astatine their location successful George Eardley Close, Stoke-on-Trent, astir 8 hours aft the crash, having traced the Audi TT.

This came hours aft co-defendant Natasha Akhtar, the proprietor of the Seat Leon, was arrested connected her mode backmost to her location successful Birmingham.

Mr Thompson KC said portion her member was being asked astir the car, Mahek Bukhari had a 14-minute telephone with co-defendant Raees Jamal.

"It's not hard to infer that Mahek Bukhari picked up connected the information that Raees Jamal had been trying to telephone her and she must've been telling him the constabulary were successful the house," the barrister said.

"He said Natasha Akhtar had been arrested and they were trying cobble immoderate benignant of communicative to deceive police."

Once it was established the brace had been successful the Audi TT, Ms Bukhari claimed to officers she and her parent had been to Nottingham, which Mr Thompson KC said "was a lie".

The women were asked to manus implicit their phones and pin numbers.

However, Mahek Bukhari gave a mendacious pin fig and erstwhile officers tried to unlock it, her telephone had reverted backmost to its mill settings with the information cleared, the tribunal was told.

Detectives aboriginal retrieved messages and telephone logs from her telephone aft accessing her iCloud account, the tribunal heard.

Both were arrested and transferred to Leicester to beryllium interviewed nether caution.

The barrister said Mahek told constabulary the brace had been intending to question to Nottingham but ended up successful Leicester owed to roadworks.

When asked astir Mr Hussain, the influencer claimed she had known him for 3 years and had his fig arsenic they had antecedently dated.

She past claimed helium had been harassing and bullying her done her societal media channels and demanded wealth to stop, explaining this was wherefore they came to conscionable him astatine a Tesco car parkland successful Hamilton, Leicester.

On the clang itself, she claimed the Skoda Fabia Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin were successful was "harassing" the bluish Seat Leon but she did not spot the impact.

She added she was "praying and hoping" the radical wrong the metallic car were OK and "burst into tears".

Ansreen Bukhari, 46, of George Eardley Close, Stoke-on-Trent

Mahek Bukhari, 23, of George Eardley Close, Stoke-on-Trent

Rekan Karwan, 29, of Tomlin Road, Leicester

Raees Jamal, 22, of Lingdale Close, Loughborough

Mohammed Patel, 22, of Braybrooke Road, Leicester

Natasha Akhtar, 23, of Alum Rock Road, Birmingham

Sanaf Gulammustafa, 23, of Littlemore Close, Leicester

Ameer Jamal, 28, of Catherine Street, Leicester