Cops visited killer as he kept 2 bodies in freezer
Fiend will do minimum 38yrs
BY TOM PETTIFOR
A TWISTED double killer who chatted with police in his home while his victims’ bodies lay crammed in a freezer nearby was jailed for a minimum 38 years.
Zahid Younis was found guilty of battering Henriett Szucs, 34, to death in 2016 and then storing the body of Mihrican “Jan” Mustafa, 38, in the same chiller two years later after strangling her.
The 36-year-old was on the sex offender register and would welcome officers monitoring him into his flat in Canning Town, East London.
He was caught in April 2019 when an officer found the locked freezer surrounded by flies in a cupboard and pried it open. Crack- cocaine user Younis, known as “Boxer”, admitted putting them in the freezer but denied murder. He had a string of convictions for sexually assaulting and beating vulnerable women and girls.
Younis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read at Southwark crown court.
He refused to return for sentencing and Mrs Justice Cheema- Grubb said he had robbed his victims of “all happiness in life and dignity in death”, adding: “You have no remorse.”
DCI Simon Harding said: “He is one of those people you would put in the bracket of evil.”
He added that the discovery of the bodies was great work by an officer acting on “an oldfashioned police hunch”.
Younis was previously
sentenced to two- and- a- half years for assaulting a teen and unlawful sexual activity with a child. He later got four years 11 months for wounding and assault after an abusive relationship with a girl of 17.
Prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said Henriett and Jan were
“vulnerable women living chaotic lives”, including periods of homelessness and drug addiction. The two women suffered injuries consistent with kicking or stamping.
Both had numerous rib fractures, while Henriett had “dreadful” head injuries and Jan’s sternum and larynx had been fractured.
Jan’s family said in a statement: “She was an angel. She is an angel.”
A statement on behalf of Henriett’s mother Maria, a Hungarian national, said: “Maria lost touch with Henriett when she came to the UK but that only exacerbates her grief.
“The fact Henriett lay in a freezer for two-and-a-half years with no one realising she was missing torments Maria.”