‘Fatal crash victim sent threatening messages to 2nd woman’
MURDER TRIAL HEARS ABOUT COMPLAINT TO OFFICERS
ONE of the victims of a fatal crash at the centre of the TikTok murder trial of Mahek Bukhari and seven others had been sending threats to another woman in his home county of Oxfordshire at the same time he was threatening Mahek’s mother, a jury has heard.
The prosecution case say Saqib Hussain, who was 21 when he died, had been in a three-year relationship with Ansreen Bukhari.
In messages seen by the jury he repeatedly threatened her, saying he would tell her husband and son about the affair and show them explicit pictures and videos, and he would also post the pictures on the internet.
There were also numerous threats to visit Ansreen’s house – where she lived with her husband, son and Mahek – with some of his friends just hours before Mahek organised to meet him in Leicestershire.
But the jury heard on Monday about other threats made to another woman who is not connected to any of the defendants.
The jury at Leicester Crown Court was told on January 20, 2022 – less than a month before Mr Hussain and his friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin died on the A46 after allegedly being rammed off the road – a woman in Oxfordshire phoned Thames Valley Police.
In the first of three calls to the force, the mother of two said she wanted to complain about Mr Hussain, who she had given her phone number to on a night out.
She said she had told him she was in a relationship and did not want to be involved with him but he kept calling and texting her.
She said he had threatened to smash up her car and she was “very freaked out” by his behaviour, the jury heard.
She told Thames Valley Police she was getting 15 to 20 calls and messages a day and Mr Hussain was threatening to go round to her house , although she did not think he knew where she lived.
She said during one call Mr Hussain had become “extremely sexually suggestive” towards her.
She said she wanted the police to stop him calling her but asked not to arrest him.
The police did not speak to Mr Hussain about the woman’s complaints before his death on Friday, February 11, last year.
During the court hearing on Monday, the jury also heard more about threatening messages the crash victim had sent to Ansreen Bukhari.
As well as threatening her marriage, he also threatened to let her husband know that his daughter Mahek, and Ansreen’s other friends, were fully aware of the three-year affair.
Referring to Ansreen’s husband, in one message, Mr Hussain said: “I’ll tell him everything and make all your pics and videos viral right now.
“I’m telling how all the girls were in it with you.”
The trial continues.
The prosecution case is that an ambush had been planned for Mr hussain and Mr Ijazuddin after the former had an affair with Ansreen Bukhari, the mother of the 23-year-old TikTok influencer.
The court has heard the eight defendants, including the Bukhari mother and daughter, planned to confront the pair in the Tesco car park in hamilton.
It is alleged Mr hussain and Mr Ijazuddin had agreed to meet in order to get recompense for all the money Mr hussain had spent on
Ansreen Bukhari. It is alleged they then saw some of the other defendants and fled in Mr Ijazuddin’s Skoda, but the eight defendants chased them on to the A46 in two cars – a Seat Leon and Mahek Bukhari’s Audi. The alleged chase ended with the Skoda leaving the road and smashing into a tree before bursting into flames.
The eight defendants are: ■■Natasha Akhtar (22), of Alum Rock Road, Birmingham. ■■Ansreen Bukhari (47), of George eardley Close, Stoke. ■■Mahek Bukhari (23), of George eardley Close, Stoke. ■■Raees Jamal (22), of Lingdale Close, Loughborough. ■■Rekan Karwan (28), of Tomlin Road, Leicester. ■■Mohammed Patel (20), of Braybrooke Road, Leicester. ■■Sanaf Gulammustafa (22), of Littlemore Close, Crown hills, Leicester.
■■Ameer Jamal (27), of Catherine Street, Belgrave, Leicester.
All deny murder and alternative charge of manslaughter.