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

[RusselSprout]

Phone data analysed​

A Leicestershire Police analyst is set to tell the court about phone data being used in the run up to the crash on February 11.

Calls and texts​

Data from the phones of all eight defendants will be looked at for acitivity between them on February 10, 2022. Calls and texts will be read out to the court this afternoon. It will pinpoint the locations of where messages were sent and calls were made. Prosecution barrister Daren Samat is explaining the information to the jury with the help of the Leicestershire Police analyst.

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[RusselSprout]

Call made to TikTok star​

Mr Samat tells the court ANPR cameras picked up a grey Audi TT on the M42 just after 5pm. At 5.28pm on the A6 and 6.51pm on Humberstone Road in Leicester. He explains to the courtroom. Mr Samat, who is summarising the calls, texts and locations made, asked the analyst: "On February 10 at 23.38 an ANPR camera hit [for the Audi TT] was on the A50 at Stoke and was information provided to you [Leicestershire Police] by the investigation team." She replied: "Yes it is."

Mr Samat is explaining all the locations to the courtroom and is reading the list out in chronological order. A call lasting over a minute was made from a phone in the vehicle to TikTok star Mahek Bukhari. The analyst confirmed two 999 calls were also placed.

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[Tortoise]

Call made to TikTok star​

Mr Samat tells the court ANPR cameras picked up a grey Audi TT on the M42 just after 5pm. At 5.28pm on the A6 and 6.51pm on Humberstone Road in Leicester. He explains to the courtroom. Mr Samat, who is summarising the calls, texts and locations made, asked the analyst: "On February 10 at 23.38 an ANPR camera hit [for the Audi TT] was on the A50 at Stoke and was information provided to you [Leicestershire Police] by the investigation team." She replied: "Yes it is."

Mr Samat is explaining all the locations to the courtroom and is reading the list out in chronological order. A call lasting over a minute was made from a phone in the vehicle to TikTok star Mahek Bukhari. The analyst confirmed two 999 calls were also placed.

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I'm presuming the last paragraph there refers to the victims' car and phone calls to Mahek and 999

 

[RusselSprout]

Calls made between defendants​

Locations of the calls between the defendants include areas of Leicester and Loughborough. Defendant Sanaf Gulammustafa made a call to a third party before calling the defendants. Mr Samat says Mr Gulammustafa, 22, later made a second and third call to defendant Raees Jamal. A fourth call from Mr Gulammustafa to Raees Jamal took place at 3.30am on February 11. Mr Gulammustafa later called defendant Natasha Akhtar half-an-hour later. The call was made from a different location and lasted three minutes. A call was then made to Mahek Bukhari at 5.02am from the same number. Mr Samat told the court: "Calls were passed between the defendants, is that right to say?" The analyst replied: "Yes."

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[RusselSprout]

Calls between defendant and crash victim​

A call was registered between defendant Rekan Karwan and crash victim Saqib Hussain. Mr Karwan attempted to call Mr Hussain four times. A call was then registered from Mr Hussain to Mr Karwan which lasted a minute. Another 68 second call was then registered between Mr Karwan and Mr Hussain, prosecution barrister Mr Samat told the court.

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[RusselSprout]

Crash victim's calls to TikTok Star's mum​

Crash victim Saqib Hussain made 1,702 calls to Ansreen Bukhari - across 88 pages of transcript - between August 10, 2021, to February 10, 2022. Of Saqib Hussain's 1,702 placed calls, 1,100 calls were less than 5 seconds long. Mrs Bukhari placed around 200 calls to Mr Hussain. Only a handful of the calls made were over three minutes long.
Calls were also placed between Mahek Bukhari, 23, and Mr Hussain. Around 78 calls were made during that same time frame. These were just calls, which did not include other social media messages, the court was told.

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[RusselSprout]

Tesco car park calls​

The occupants of the SEAT Leon and Audi TT vehicles met in Tesco car park in Hamilton, Leicester, but two defendants were calling each other from inside the vehicles. Rekan Karwan made a call to Mahek Bukhari's phone prior to the Skoda Fabia vehicle arriving at Tesco car park. A second call between the defendants lasts for 17 seconds. A third call was not answered by the TikTok star Miss Bukhari. Three more calls were made between Mr Karwan and Miss Bukhari. Six calls were made, only one was not answered, the court heard.
As previously reported by Leicestershire Live, all 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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[RusselSprout]

Another phone came into play​

Crash victim Saqib Hussain used friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin's mobile phone to the contact Ansreen Bukhari's phone. His phone's "battery could have died", the court heard. Then 19 attempts were made but none were picked up. Ansreen's mobile phone then made contact with the same phone minutes later. It took place at 1.24am and ended at 1.27am. The Hashim phone then made a 999 call. The "sound of an impact" is then heard followed by shouting, the court was told.

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[RusselSprout]

Jury looking through call sheet​

The members of the jury are being asked to look through the pages of the calls.

Miss Akhtar made one call​

They are told Mr [Raees] Jamal calls Natasha Akhtar for 39 seconds. He attemped to call her again. Natasha Akhtar's mobile phone did not contact any of the other defendants within the same time frame, the court has been told.

Short calls​

The jury is told short phone calls, and a text message which follows the call, means the call has not been established. There are hundreds of these types of entries within the bundle.

The hearing is over for today​

The case will begin again tomorrow morning.

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[RusselSprout]

Jury to see videos of defendants' interviews​

Day six has begun and this morning the jury will be watching the videotaped police interviews, which they have been given full transcripts of.

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek Bukhari's version of events - Saqib Hussain was 'harassing' her​

In her police interview, Detective Constable James Simpson asked Mahek Bukhari "Are you responsible for the murder of Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin" and she shook her head in response.
He then asks about the incidents on the night of the crash. She replied: "We started from Stoke on Trent. Our intention was to go to Nottingham.
"There was loads of diversions so it took us an hour and 50 minutes just to get to Nottingham. It takes us all the way round and we've ended up in Leicester.
"I'm a social media influencer and my followers know my movements. I post all the time.
"I've known Saqib for about three years but it was once in a blue moon [I saw him]."
She goes on to say he was a "very nice guy" but she only wanted to be friends. After that he started posting things online about her.

Saqib's relationship with her mother not mentioned​

The jury has previously heard Saqib was in a relationship with Mahek's 45-year-old mother but Mahek did not mention that and said she had only met him once.
She said he began circulating fake images of both her and her mother. She said: "This person was harassing me, bullying me, he would upoad on TikTok and Instagram my phone number.
"I've met him once in my life. I exchanged numbers. I thought he was a very nice guy.
"At the end of the day, I said we could be friends. This person has been making fake images of me. He always used to admit - 'This was me, you don't reply to my messages'.
"I said, 'If I don't want to talk to you, you can't make me. He makes fakes pictures of me and my mum.
"She's always out with me - she's like my best friend to me."

Other people also harassing her and slashing her car tyres​

She tells the police her normal car is a white Audi with personalised numberplates. She said she often would be invited to restaurants and come out to find her windows smashed and her tyres slashed but didn't report it to the police.
She said: "If I'm going to a restaurant I'm going to my car, I always have a slashed tyre and a note saying 'Get off social media. You shouldn't be doing this as a job.'
"I don't go to the police. It's always going to happen to me because I put myself out there."
She adds that on Boxing Day last year her white Audi was damaged while parked outside her house, which was why she was using the red Audi TT loaned vehicle.

Saqib threatened to kill her family, Mahek claims​

She said she was in contact with Saqib on the night he died, first when he sent her a message saying "I've seen your story, you're in Leicester," she said. She added: "I said, 'Please can you leave me alone. I'm going home."
She said Saqib then said to her: "Your dad's at home, your brother's at home. I'm going to kill them."

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[RusselSprout]

She said she wanted to meet Saqib that night​

She said: "I said, 'Please can we meet up in a lit car park where I can speak to you." She said Saqib then demanded £2,000 to £3,000. In return, he said, "I'll stop harassing you", she told the officers.
She said she refused to pay him any money but went to meet him. She said Saqib told her he was driving a Mercedes but the car never showed up at the meeting point.

Accuses silver car in crash has 'agitating' with a blue Seat Leon on the A46​

Continuing her version of the events of Thursday, February 10, and the following morning, she said she waited about five minutes for Saqib. He then suggested a different road to meet in and she refused and headed off towards Nottingham up the A46.
On the A46, she said, there was a Seat Leon and a silver car but she did not know who was in the vehicles. She said: "So we're on the way onto the dual carriageway. I just started driving all the way to Nottingham.
"There's a car that's coming on my right hand side - a Seat Leon. It was blue. It's sort of next to me and come right in front of me."
She said she then reduced her speed to about 50mph when a silver car came up behind her and pulled in front of her and behind the blue Seat Leon. She said: "This car didn't do anything to me. This silver car came zooming down.
"It cut into the middle so all three cars are really close. My mum said, 'Just keep your distance.."
"I kept my distance. This car was not threatening me but agitating the blue car."

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[RusselSprout]

As judge judy would say, baloney!!

 

[Luwin]

I wonder how Saqib did meet Ansreen - whether it was through Mahek?

 

[RusselSprout]

Silver car 'just harassing' the blue Seat Leon and then rammed it, Mahek claims​

She continued: "It was just harassing and this silver car was not letting the blue car go.
"I've gone past and I've gone further away and and then the blue car has caught up with me. All I hear is a bang the silver car's hit the blue car.
"I said to mum, 'What's going on? Are they drunk? What are they trying to do to this blue car?'
"All I've seen is the silver car has swerved to the other side where the metal bits are."

Mahek said she was 'in shock' and 'praying' for occupants of crashed vehicle​

She said she did not really see the crash and left the A46 because her legs were shaking. She said: "I was just in shock. I was just shaking with anxiety."
She said she came off the A46 on a slip road to calm down and then she and her mother decided to return home to Stoke and go back along the A46 towards Leicester.
She said: "I said I don't want to go to Nottingham anymore. I was praying and hoping this silver car is okay.
"The navigation has brought us back onto the same dual carriageway. All I seen is flames. I just started bursting out in tears."
When asked if she had witnessed the crash earlier, she replied: "I've seen it go, but we didn't see it go-go."

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[RusselSprout]

Ambulances already at scene so she didn't call 999​

She continued: "The reason I didn't report it is there was police cars, ambulances already there. I was so shocked.
"Mum said, 'Let's go to a normal street.'" She said her mum was also upset and, being diabetic, needed food.
She claimed she and her mum were in Leicester for about 40 to 45 minutes. She said: "We stayed there. I was calming her down.
"We went straight home. When they said it was Saqib I was very confused."

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Eight people are on trial for murder after a fatal crash on the A46 near Leicester

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[JuicyLucy]

Do you really need a physical phone to get it's data though? Youd think in this day in age a few clickity clicks on some computer you could get the data. The good thing is, we know the police have the 3 women's phones.

Yes, I'm sure you're right, though it would take longer without the physical phone/SIM because the mobile phone company would need a court order to release the data, I assume.

But the defendants don't seem the brightest when it comes to tech tbh. I'm still a bit slackjawed at the idea that they assumed taking the victim's phone off him would mean he no longer had access to the explicit images of Ansreen Bukhari and therefore couldn't 'blackmail' her any longer. (Though that may not genuinely have been the plan, of course.)

JMO

 

[JuicyLucy]

Defendant worked in Leicester​

Mr Ammeer Jamal worked at a parts dealership in Leicester. He worked there full time up until he was arrested in March this year. The witness worked with Mr Jamal for seven to eight years. The pair 'had a good working relationship', the court was told.
Apart from "falling asleep at work", Mr Jamal was "hard working". The court heard Mr Jamal and his colleague socialised together.

lol @ Apart from "falling asleep at work", Mr Jamal was "hard working".

We should all have such understanding employers!

 

[LouTennant]

As judge judy would say, baloney!!

Indeed. I think saying no comment would have been her better bet.

 

[RusselSprout]

Saqib contacted Mahek before she left home, she told police​

The police questioning continued and Mahek has told them that crash victim Saqib tried to get hold of her even before she left home to go to Nottingham, sending her a text message. She said: "He said 'ring me now, where are you?' I replied I would give him a call in a bit. He said, 'No, my phone's about to die'.
"He said, 'I'm coming to your house right now. You need to give me £2,000."

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Eight people are on trial for murder after a fatal crash on the A46 near Leicester

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