Tiktok influencer and her mum guilty of killing men in high-speed chase
A TikTok influencer has been found guilty of murdering her mum’s lover by ramming him off the road in a high-speed car chase after he blackmailed her with a sex tape.
Mahek Bukhari, 23, and mum Ansreen, 45, lured Saqib Hussain, 21, to a meeting where they hoped to buy his silence for the £3,000 he claimed to have spent on taking her out during their tryst.
However, the pair – along with six others – instead ‘ambushed’ Mr Hussain and pal Hashim Ijazuddin, also 21, who drove him to the Leicester summit late on February 11 last year.
In a frantic phone call made minutes before their Skoda was ripped in two and burst into flames at the side of the road, Mr Hussain told police they were being rammed by balaclava-clad assailants.
He said: ‘They’re trying to ram us off the road. Please, I’m begging you, I’m going to die.’
Jurors at Leicester Crown Court heard his last words ‘Oh my God’ before there was a scream and the call cut off at the sound of an impact.
Jurors deliberated for more than 28 hours before finding YouTube and TikTok content creator Mahek Bukhari and her mother guilty of two counts of murder on Friday afternoon.
Fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal were also found guilty of two counts of murder – while Natasha Akhtar, Ameer Jamal and Sanaf Gulamustafa were all found not guilty of murder, but guilty of two counts of manslaughter.
Mohammed Patel was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.
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