GUILTY UK - Hashim Ijazuddin, 21, and Saqib Hussain, 20, car crash A46 Leicester 11 Feb 2022 *Murder Arrests*

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There are a lot of defendants in this case and it's not clear exactly who knew whom or how, so I've just done a summary of what's known, taken from the court reporting, in the hope it will make discussion easier.
  • The grey Audi TT was Mahek Bukhari's loan car (her normal car was off the road). It contained M Bukhari (daughter), A Bukhari (mother), Patel and Karwan. Karwan was driving at the time of the crash.
  • The blue Seat Leon was Natasha Akhtar's and contained Akhtar, Gulamustafa, R Jamal and A Jamal. The two Jamals are cousins. R Jamal was driving at the time of the crash. The Seat sustained front damage, allegedly from having rammed the victims' car from behind.
Those groupings might or might not suggest something about who knew who else better, but afterwards, they all spent time in the same area together before going their separate ways.

There are phone records before the event of:
  • M Bukhari calling Karwan
and after the event of:
  • Akhtar calling R Jamal
  • R Jamal calling Karwan
  • M Bukhari calling R Jamal
The following social connections are known through CCTV or other evidence, or admissions when questioned:
  • The Jamals, Karwan and Patel all went together to a phone shop to dispose of their phones after the event.
  • M Bukhari denied knowing Akhtar but was seen on CCTV with her on the night of the crash.
  • Patel admitted in questioning to being asked to join in by R Jamal.
  • Gulammustafa admitted in questioning to socialising with Akhtar and R Jamal, and that the three of them then went to Karwan's home. He denied knowing the Bukharis, who he said came separately to Karwan's home.
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RusselSprout said:
Do you think 8 people in 2 seperate cars can be convicted of murder? I'm not sure and I doubt it. But I hope the mum and daughter are found guilty,and some of their accomplices. The 8 might all be involved but some to a very less degree, I would think
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Assuming the prosecution's version of events is proven, I think both mother and daughter are on shaky ground, plus the two drivers, Karwan and Raees Jamal. The others might get off with something lesser, e.g. conspiracy, perverting the course of justice, aiding and abetting etc. On his own admission, Patel came armed with a metal wheel brace, allegedly on R Jamal's instructions, so some of them, at least, knew it wasn't just going to be a civilised chat in a car park.

But it's JMO, not a lawyer etc.

Court updates of murder trial of TikTok star Mahek Bukhari
 
I think it would be similar to the precedents when someone has been murdered with a gang present, and all of them have been charged. I can’t remember the term for it, but I do think they can all be found guilty with the right direction.
 
Yes, Joint Enterprise murder.

I do think the passengers all had an opportunity to get out of the car/not get back in the car at the carpark, before the chase. They all had phones and could have called police before the chase and during the chase.

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Tortoise said:
Yes, Joint Enterprise murder.

I do think the passengers all had an opportunity to get out of the car/not get back in the car at the carpark, before the chase. They all had phones and could have called police before the chase and during the chase.

edit - Snap Lucy!
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Yes, I think a lot of them will try to make a case that they had no idea what was going to happen, but I question how kind the court will be.

Patel, who was in the Audi, claims he wanted to call the police after they saw the car wreck on their return back up the A46, but that "they stopped me" and everyone was "told" to turn their phones off - but this is the man who admits he was armed with a wheel brace that he hid down his trousers because R Jamal had asked him to help deal with a "situation".

I think his testimony will be really significant, because it suggests that the plan was always anticipated to end in some kind of violence, even if this specific outcome wasn't planned.

Court updates of murder trial of TikTok star Mahek Bukhari

ETA: I think the fact that both cars were originally driven by women but that men took the wheel before the car chase will also be considered evidence that everyone knew what was about to happen was expected to be hard core. It might be interesting to consider who was sitting where, i.e. had they had a chance to get out in the moments a new plan was hatched?

JMO
 
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I just can't figure out what they were trying to achieve, if it wasn't murder, racing at those speeds, ramming the car and boxing them in? They are lucky they all didn't die.

The passengers will blame the drivers. Its so complex with so many defendants, it will be interesting to hear all their versions of events.

Actually here Patel, a passanger, appears to put some blame on mahek - Patel told the police "they did start chasing them" and then recalled a phone conversation between Mahek Bukhari and Saqib in the Skoda in which Mahek said: "Watch what I do to you."
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TikTok star Mahek Bukhari is among eight people standing trial for murder in Leicester following the deaths of Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain in a car wreck on the A46 in February this year
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All eight forced to accept they were in the pursuit cars by mobile phone data​

Mr Thompson told the jury that all eight defendants:
  1. Accept they were in one of the two cars pursuing the Skoda
  2. Accept there was a collision between the Seat Leon and the Skoda
  3. Accept the collision caused the Skoda to crash into a tree, resulting in the two men's deaths
Mr Thompson said: "The defendants have only been forced into making those admissions by the mobile phone data which shows them following the fleeing Skoda."

It is also accepted who was driving the cars​

Mr Thompson said it was accepted Raees Jamal was driving the Seat Leon that collided with the Skoda Fabia and that Rekan Karwan was behind the wheel of the Audi TT.
The prosecutor said: "The Seat Leon was used as as a weaopn to ram the Skoda off the road. [Karwan] must have forseen that death or a really serious injury would be caused by ramming that car off the road.
"He must have intended at least to cause really seroius harm to the occupants of the Skoda Fabia."
He said that if the jury agreed with that, they should convict Karwan of murder.


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Why the others should be convicted of murder​

Mr Thompson added that Raees Jamal, driving the Audi TT, was "acting in concert" with Karwan to "stop the Skoda Fabia from escaping" and was therefore also guilty of the murder.
With the six occupants of the vehicles, Mr Thompson said there was clearly an intention by them all to at least cause serious hard to Saqib - the fact there were so many of them who went to confront Saqib, the disguises they wore and weapons they carried proved that "violence must have been contemplated" he said.
He said that while not everyone witnessing a murder was guilty of murder, there was, in this case, a shared and common intention to inflict serious harm on Saqib Hussain".
He added: "They were assiting or encouraging the commission of the murder by their presence."

Lots of vehicles were driving past flaming vehicle 'and not stopping'​

Another member of the prosecution team, Daren Samat, is now reading out various witness statements about the night of the crash. The judge tells the jury that the witness statements were not contested, which was why the witnesses were not appearing in the witness box.
The first statement is from a mechanic who stopped traffic on the A46 after spotting the burning car. He said in his statement: "I saw a car on fire next to a tree. The car was in pieces.
"I was approximately 20ft away. I stopped and blocked the road. I remember lots of vehicles driving past and not stopping."

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Police describe arriving at scene - 'There was no chance of preserving life'​

Pc Joseph Raddings, based at Melton, was the first officer on the scene. He said in his statement: "I drove to the scene as an emergency response. As I pulled onto the A46 at Six Hills I could see in the distance a fire in the road."
He said the burning wreck was too dangerous to approach, with "popping and banging" sounds coming from the car and debris being flung out from the wreck. He said: "If there was anyone inside there was no chance of preserving life."
He said it was only later that he confirmed there had been two people inside the vehicle.

Two victims had been friends since nursery school​

A further witness statement, from a friend of both victims, explained how he had been to nursery school and primary school with both Hashim and Saqib and that after secondary school Saqib had gone to work for a bakery, where he was still working at the time of his death.
The friend said he was aware that Saqib had been in a relationship with a married woman since he was about 18 or 19 who he had met through a dating app and that the woman was 45 and had a famous daughter who was on TikTok and Instagram.
He was also aware Saqib had been messaging the woman's daughter about money. The friend said: "He wanted money from the married woman that he had spent during the relationship."

Saqib "head over heels" in love with Ansreen​

Saqib's sister's statement was the next to be read out. She described how Saqib was "head over heels" in love with Ansreen and was "always buying her stuff". She said Saqib was "heartbroken" when the relationship ended.
She said she met Ansreen on one occasion outside a hotel. She also said she told her brother he should not be in a relationship with a married woman.
She also warned Saqib that he was taking a risk going to get the money. She asked him: "Are you stupid?" and warned someone might "rush" him.

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'I asked what was wrong but he wouldn't tell me'​

The day before Saqib died his father, who knew about the affair, texted Saqib's sister, asking to go and speak to her brother, who had been sulking for two days. Describing her last ever conversation with her brother, she said: "I went to speak to Saqib in his bedroom. I asked what was wrong but he wouldn't tell me.
"He asked me to leave. I said, 'We are close and tell each other everything'. But he just said 'no' and asked me to leave his room."

Ansreen Bukhari's husband did not know about affair​

Mr Samat has read out a statement from Ansreen Bukhari's husband, Ali Raza, who told police he did not know about the affair his wife was having, or that she was in an relationship with anyone else.
However, he did say that someone with the name Saqib had sent him a comment on social media telling him his wife was having an affair. He said: "I do recall that about four or five months ago I received a message on my TikTok account.
"Someone put a comment that said something about my wife having an affair. I never told my wife about it - I assumed it was just nonsense. I think 'Saqib' was the name or part of the name of the account."
He said he noticed the 'Saqib' user had no followers, which made him conclude it was a "fake account".

First 'live' witness now in the witness box​

Detective Constable Elliott Burgess is now in the witness stand, discussing his role in the investigation and taking the jury through CCTV clips from the night Saqib and Hashim died. He played a central role in the early hours of the murder investigation, which was known as Operation Feather, gathering CCTV evidence as well as mobile phone data.

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Police started off with ANPR 'hits' and rapidly gathered CCTV evidence​

The murder investigation started shortly after the fatal collision, thanks to the 999 call Saqib had made to Leicestershire Police, telling them that someone was trying to kill him and ramming the car he was a passenger in.
Det Con Burgess told the jury the force's automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) system had several images of the Skoda Fabia. He said he was able to quickly establish the route the Skoda took and he then went to Leicester City Council and other CCTV camera owners to gather video footage of the car - as well as the two pursuit vehicles.
He then also obtained location data from the Audi TT's telemetry computer and phone location data from the mobile belonging to Natasha Akhtar, who had been in the Seat Leon and was the vehicle's owner. Ansreen's phone data was also used to compile a picture of where the cars had been, as well as the speeds they had been travelling at.
The jury has already heard that arrests started happening within a few hours of the fatal crash, with Akhtar being arrested at a petrol station on the M6 before she had even made it home to Birmingham.

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Raees Jamal seen getting into the driver's seat of the Seat Leon that collided with the victims' car​

On the evening of February 10, a CCTV camera in Lingdale Close, Loughborough, captured the moment when Raees Jamal got behind the wheel of the Seat Leon. At 5.18pm, one person gets out of the driver's side and into the passenger seat and then another figure approaches the car and gets in behind the wheel.
Mr Thompson said: "I don't think there's any doubt, that's Natasha Akhtar [getting out] and the person getting in the driver's side is Mr Raees Jamal." Raees Jamal lives in Lingdale Close, the jury has heard.
Next the jury is shown footage from the Bukhari family's own CCTV camera outside their home in Stoke, which shows the comings and goings on the Thursday evening of the silver Audi TT, the second car that was involved in the pursuit up the A46 a few hours later.

Mahek Bukhari and her mother stopped for McDonald's on their way to Leicestershire​

Next, the jury was shown three video clips from three different cameras at a drive-thru McDonald's restaurant at Festival Park in Stoke. The Audi TT can be seen pulling up to a window to order some food and then going to collect it. The whole sequence last between 12 and 13 minutes and the car is next picked up on a CCTV camera at a Morrisons petrol station just after 11pm on the night of the crash.

Defendants' cars shown making their way to meeting in Leicester​

The prosecutor is showing footage from the Catherine Street area of Belgrave, Leicester, near the junction with Gypsy Lane, where some of the defendants were travelling in the blue Seat Leon. The CCTV footage traces their trip into the Northfields area of Leicester, going into Tomlin Road, where the defendant Rekan Karwan's home was.

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Audi TT seen arriving at Leicester shortly after 12.30pm on Friday, February 11​

The Audi TT is seen leaving the Morrisons petrol station in Stoke and is not picked up on CCTV again until the Red Hill Roundabout in Leicester, where it is seen on CCTV before going to meet the occupants of the other vehicle in Tomlin Road. The prosecution also has extensive location and speed data from the Audi's telemetery computer. The car was a loan, Mr Thompson has told the jury, and Mahek Bukhari may not have realised the vehicle was recording and transmitting its speed and location every few seconds during the night of the crash.

'Stoned' Mohammed Patel, seen making his way towards the meeting​

Mohammed Patel, the defendant who gave the fullest explanation to police about what happened on the night of the crash, was caught on CCTV walking along Tomlin Road just as the Audi TT arrives outside Karwan's home at about 12.40pm - 50 minutes before the collision.
The jury has previously heard how Patel claimed gaps in his memory because he was under the influence of cannabis throughout the events of that night. He recalled some conversations, including Mahek Bukhani allegedly telling Saqib "watch what I do to you" in a phone call shortly before his car was rammed off the road.
Patel also described another phone conversation in which defendant Raeees Jamal told Karwan: "I'm going to try to stop this guy. I might have to ram him," with Karwan replying, "Ram him". Patel also confessed to going to the meeting at Karwan's house with a balaclava to wear and being given a metal wheel brace to take to the meeting.
Patel told officers he had wanted to call 999 after seeing the wrecked Skoda but was ordered not to. And he said he had only not gone home because he didn't want his parents to see him under the influence of cannabis.

Victims head to wrong Tesco store​

The two victims, Saqib and Hashim, drove to Leicester from Banbury in Oxfordshire and were first seen on local CCTV cameras going into the Tesco superstore on Narborough Road. Mr Thompson said the vehicle had "gone to the wrong Tesco". Afterwards it went to the Tesco in Hamilton, where the three vehicles met ahead of the pursuit up the A46.
At about the same time that the Skoda was in Narborough Road, Mahek's Audi was seen on CCTV going from Tomlin Road to the home of Ameer Jamal in Catherine Street, Belgrave.
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Two cars containing the eight defendants first seen together just 25 minutes before crash​

At about five minutes past 1am, a CCTV camera on Northfields Road catches the blue Seat Leon reversing out of Aneford Road and heading back towards Gipsy Lane. It is followed, seconds later, by Mahek's Audi TT.
Both cars are then travelling in convoy - just a few car lengths apart - at the junction of Victoria Road East and Gipsy Lane in the north east of Leicester just before they made their way up Thurmaston Lane to the Tesco Extra supermarket in Hamilton, Leicester.

Jury shown more CCTV footage from the hour before the crash​

The prosecutor, Collingwood Thompson KC, is showing the jury some footage they have already seen of the vehicles in the Tesco car park in Hamilton, Leicester. A camera at the car wash in the supermarket car park shows the Seat Leon and the Audi TT arriving at the car park first, then the Skoda Fabia with the two crash victims inside, pulling in, pausing and then slowly leaving the car park. It is shortly after followed by the other cars.
The three cars were all in the car park together at about 1.17am, which was about 15 minutes before the fatal collision, which happened about 12 miles away on the A46 near to the Six Hills junction.

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The trial has begun again​

Detective Constable Elliott Burgess is back in the witness stand, taking the jury through more of the CCTV footage as the three cars moved from the Tesco car park in Hamilton, Leicester, towards the site of the fatal crash at 1.30am on Friday, February 11.
The CCTV, which the jury has seen briefly before, shows the Audi TT and the Seat Leon very close to the Skoda Fabia as they move up the A607 past the Bentley Leicester dealership, shortly before the Hobby Horse Roundabout near Syston where the three cars go onto the A46.
The point where the three cars pass the Bentley dealership is about the same time when Saqib Hussain makes the 999 call to Leicestershire Police, which continues until the fatal crash.

Seconds before crash ANPR camera caught image of Seat Leon very close to Skoda​

The jury has been shown two images taken by a police automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) camera at 1.32am, seconds before the crash happened. The first of the two shows the Skoda Fabia containing crash victims Saqib and Hashim. The Skoda's numberplate and two headlights are clear in the picture and Det Con Burgess indicates that visible through the windows of the Skoda is a glow of the Seat Leon's headlights, which can be seen almost alongside the Skoda, on its right, and about half a car length behind. The second ANPR picture shows the Audi TT belonging to Mahek Bukhari, close behind the Skoda and the Seat.

CCTV shows what happened after crash​

Next, the jury was shown footage from the cameras belonging to Nottingham Raceway Karting at a junction near Willoughby on the Wolds and from nearby Willoughby House. Prosecutor Collingwood Thompson KC tells the jury the two cars containing the eight defendants can be seen, with the Seat Leon clearly visible stopping briefly at 1.36am while two occupants get out. The Crown's case is that the pair are probably inspecting the damage to the Seat after the collision that caused the crash.

He said: "The vehicle stops, two occupants get out, then they drive off again to the A46 southbound." He added that at about the same time phone data shows a call from Mohammed Patel's phone to that of his co-accused Raees Jamal, who was driving the Audi TT. Patel was in the Seat Leon and the details about who was in which vehicle and who was driving is undisputed by the defence barristers, Mr Thompson has said
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Defendants' cars return to Leicester and are caught on Humberstone Lane CCTV​

After stopping at the A46 junction near Willoughby in the Wolds, both the Audi TT and the Seat Leon headed back down the A46 to Leicester, turning onto Humberstone Lane at about 1.50am on the night of the crash. At that stage the Audi was "quite clearly" leading the Seat Leon, Det Con Burgess tells the jury.

The cars park and Mohammed Patel walks home​

The next sequence of CCTV clips showed the vehicles return to Leicester via Humberstone Lane, Gipsy Lane and Sutton Avenue before turning into Sutton Place, where all eight defendents leave the cars and go off on foot, with Mohammed Patel the first to split from the group, walking back to his home in Braybrooke Road, caught by several cameras on his way home at about 2am.

CCTV shows other seven at junciton of Gipsy Lane and Catherine Street​

While Mohammed Patel is walking home alone, the other seven also go on foot from Sutton Place, walking down to the junction of Gipsy Lane and Catherine Street.

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What a crazy story involving so many people. I have no doubt that the mother and daughter wanted to harm Saqib and got others involved. I dont buy the "we only wanted to scare defence" due to the weapons and the amount of people involved.

Mabe all involved did not think this would end up as it did but some of them will pay the price with murder. IMO the moment they started chasing Saqid and his friend it turned into murder. They all knew the implications of shunting a car off the road at that speed and they did not stop until it happened. They wanted to harm him and it ended in two deaths.

The whole story in quite insane IMO
 
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