Wife killed by jealous sister who slept with her husband
A LOVER scorned after an affair with her brother-inlaw murdered her sister in a frenzied knife attack to win him back.
Sabah Khan, 27, was yesterday jailed for a minimum of 22 years over the brutal killing of her elder sister Saima.
The younger sibling, a carer for the elderly, had a four-year affair with Saima’s husband Hafeez Rehman while they all lived together.
When Mr Rehman ended the dalliance, Khan was consumed by jealousy and plotted the death of her 34-year-old sister, also a carer.
Donning gloves and turning the lights out one evening in May last year, she launched a ‘vicious and sustained’ attack with a kitchen knife in the hall of their home.
For eight minutes, Khan inflicted 68 injuries while her sister’s four children were in their bedrooms.
Mrs Rehman’s left hand was almost cut off, and the jugular vein in her neck was severed. Khan continued to attack after her sis- ter had died and pulled aside clothing to inflict deeper wounds.
Some of Mrs Rehman’s children were awake. At one stage her seven-year- old daughter asked Khan: ‘Are you killing a mouse?’
Khan then smashed a glass panel in the front door to make it look like the house had been burgled.
She called 999, claiming she was in the shower when her sister was attacked, and stuffed her clothes, gloves and weapon into a bin bag which was later found by police in a bedroom at the house in Luton.
Khan pleaded guilty to murder earlier this week and was jailed at the Old Bailey by Judge Christopher Moss QC who said the killing was ‘astonishingly brutal’.
Taxi driver Mr Rehman said in a statement: ‘I feel complete shame about having an affair … I never imagined anything like this. I have four beautiful children but I have lost my world and I cry every day.’
He had lived with the sisters and their parents in Luton since 2011, and claimed the affair began after Khan made advances towards him when she was 22. The judge said Mr Rehman had been ‘somewhat manipulative’ in the affair, during which Khan allegedly had an abor- tion. As his interest in her waned in February last year, Khan sent him bitter messages referring to her sister as ‘that b****’.
She searched the internet for ‘16 steps to kill someone and not get caught’ and, after learning the Rehmans were planning to move, she bought a large kitchen knife.
Prosecutor Jane Bickerstaff QC said that while the other adults were out, Khan lured Mrs Rehman home with a text about the children. She added: ‘ Forty five seconds after Saima got into the house, she was murdered … it was a vicious and sustained attack.’