Mahek Bukhari murder trial: TikTok star 'told pack of lies to police'

A TikTok 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 adjacent Leicester successful February.

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

On the archetypal time of the proceedings astatine Leicester Crown Court, the assemblage was told Mr Hussain had been threatening to nonstop explicit videos and images of Ansreen Bukhari to her hubby aft she broke disconnected their three-year affair.

The tribunal was told the parent and girl plotted with six others to acceptable up Mr Hussain by getting him to conscionable them successful a Leicester car parkland nether mendacious pretences.

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

On time two, the assemblage was played extracts from a constabulary interrogation with TikTok prima Mahek Bukhari pursuing her apprehension hours aft the crash.

Following the deaths astatine astir 01:35 BST connected 11 February, the tribunal heard Leicestershire Police enactment retired a announcement to different forces to hint an Audi TT and a Seat Leon, which the prosecution says were utilized successful the crash.

This accusation had travel from camera footage and a 999 telephone made by Mr Hussain earlier helium died.

Prosecutor Collingwood Thompson said co-accused Natasha Akhtar was arrested by West Midlands Police connected her mode backmost to her location successful Birmingham astatine astir 04:50.

The prosecution said Ms Akhtar made a telephone telephone to different suspect Raees Jamal "alerting him" the constabulary were pursuing her earlier the arrest.

The tribunal heard some Mahek Bukhari and her parent arrived backmost astatine their location successful Stoke-on-Trent astir 04:40 and Staffordshire Police visited the spot aboriginal that morning.

While constabulary initially began asking Ansreen Bukhari's lad astir the Audi TT, the prosecution said Mahek Bukhari made a 14-minute telephone to Raees Jamal.

"It seems beauteous wide what happened was a concocted communicative was enactment unneurotic successful bid to deceive the police," Mr Thompson said.

The assemblage was told Snapchat messages were recovered connected Ansreen Bukhari's telephone sent by her daughter.

One said: "Risky...if anyone other was successful the car...he said conscionable accidental you and Mum."

The prosecution alleges from the erstwhile telephone call, the antheral referred to was "plainly Raees Jamal".

Once it was established the women had been successful the Audi TT, Mahek Bukhari claimed to officers they had "been to Nottingham".

"That was a lie, they had not been to Nottingham astatine all," Mr Thompson said.

The tribunal was told some women were asked to manus implicit their phones with their pin numbers.

Mr Thompson said Mahek Bukhari gave a mendacious pin fig and erstwhile officers tried to unlock it, her telephone had reverted backmost to mill settings and the information was cleared.

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

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

The tribunal heard erstwhile Mahek Bukhari was interviewed, she "did not cognize the detail" of the 999 telephone made from Mr Hussain earlier helium died

Mr Thompson said: "Far from telling the truth, she told [the police] a battalion of lies.

"No doubt, arsenic a societal [media] influencer, those skills would alteration her to archer a mendacious communicative to the police."

The assemblage was told Mahek Bukhari denied immoderate engagement successful the murder.

She told constabulary she and her parent were "intending to question to Nottingham" but ended up successful Leicester owed to roadworks.

When asked however Mr Hussain was progressive successful the story, the influencer said she had known him for 3 years and had his telephone fig arsenic they had antecedently dated.

The prosecution said Mahek Bukhari told constabulary Mr Hussain knew she was successful Leicester due to the fact that she "posted it connected her societal media".

She went connected to archer officers helium was "harassing" and "bullying" her done her societal media channels and demanded wealth to stop, referencing gathering him astatine the Tesco car parkland successful Hamilton, Leicester.

"Of course, that was a implicit lie. He'd been lured to Leicester by arrangements made by Mahek and Ansreen Bukhari," Mr Thompson told the court.

"From past onwards, the lies the Crown allege, simply get worse and worse."

The barrister told jurors Mahek Bukhari went connected to accidental she witnessed the metallic Skoda Fabia successful which Mr Hussain and his person Mr Ijazuddin were travelling "swerve" and clang into the cardinal obstruction connected the A46.

He said she told constabulary she was "hoping and praying" that the radical successful the car were OK and "burst into tears" erstwhile she recovered retired they were dead.

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

The 8 defendants are: