Double murderer to serve 38 years
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A DOUBLE murderer has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years after killing two women and storing their bodies in a freezer in his flat.
Convicted paedophile Zahid Younis, 36, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court yesterday of murdering Hungarian national Henriett Szucs, 34, and mother-of-three Mihrican “Jan” Mustafa, 38.
Ms Szucs had been kept inside a small, padlocked, chest freezer in Younis’s flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, in east London for two and a half years when her body was discovered on April 27 last year.
Ms Mustafa is believed to have been strangled to death by Younis days after she went missing in May 2018 and her body stored in the same grim hiding place.
Younis, known as “Boxer”, admitted putting the women in the freezer and pleaded guilty to two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.
He denied two counts of murder but was found guilty of both charges by a jury after 16 hours and six minutes of deliberations.
Younis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out, while members of Ms Mustafa’s large family, who attended every day of the three-week trial, said “yes” in the public gallery.
Her older sister, Mel Mustafa, said: “Thank you God, thank you.”
Ms Szucs’ mother, Maria, who is in Hungary and could not attend court, said in a statement: “Henriett was a beautiful, kind young woman and nobody deserves to be killed in such brutal circumstances.”
Younis refused to leave his cell to be sentenced as the judge, Mrs Justice CheemaGrubb, jailed him for life with a minimum term of 38 years and warned he may never be released.
“It will surprise no one in this room that the defendant has declined to attend his countess’s visit to White Waltham Airfield near Maidenhead came ahead of National Air Ambulance Week, which begins on Monday.
She was appointed TVAA’s patron in January last year following her longstanding involvement with the service, which is also a charity. sentence, while he sits in the cells below, but I will address these remarks to him so when he has the courage to read them he will understand why the court has reached the conclusion it has,” she said.
Younis married a 14-year-old girl in an Islamic ceremony at a mosque in Walthamstow, east London, in 2004.
He was eventually jailed for two and a half years for assaulting the teenager and unlawful sexual activity with a child and was put on the sex offenders’ register.
Younis was later sentenced to four years and 11 months imprisonment for two counts of wounding and one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm following an abusive relationship with a 17-year-old girl, which started in 2007 after his release from jail.
Prosecutor Duncan Penny QC told jurors at his double murder trial both Ms Szucs and Ms Mustafa were “vulnerable women living somewhat chaotic lives”, including periods of homelessness and class A drug addiction. The court heard Younis bought a freezer for £169.99 in cash from a branch of Curry’s shortly after killing Ms Szucs “for the sole purpose” of concealing her body.