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

[RusselSprout]

Call from McDonald's drive-thru​

Mahek told the police he kept messaging her and while they were in a queue to pick up their order from a McDonald's drive-thru in Stoke she decided to call him back.
She said: "He says, 'I want my two to three K'. He's been mentioning it for years. The only thing he's holding against me is he's got editted photos of me.
"I said 'no' and he said, 'Let me come to your house and speak to your dad'. I've said, 'Leave me alone and cut him off, literally."
After that, she said, there were "constant" calls that she did not answer. On the road to Leicester she answered her phone twice when he called her.
She added: "He's from an area so far away, from Banbury, and he's coming to threaten me. He always gets other people to drive with him - full car."

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek described agreeing to meet at Tesco​

She said that in Leicester with her diabetic mum, they spent "an hour" looking for food but "there was clearly nothing open". She then got a call from Saqib as she was heading towards a branch of Tesco.
"He said he'd made arrangements and was going to get a car and come. Or, he said, 'Watch what I do to you'."
She said she was crying on the phone to Saqib and told him to meet her at the Tesco store. She said: "He said, 'I'm in Leicester and I want my two K and I'm coming in my Mercedes now."
She said she didn't see any other cars while she was waiting for him at Tesco for about five minutes.

Mahek not in court for this part of the hearing​

There was recently a short break and Mahek is no longer in the dock with her seven co-accused. The judge, Mr Justice Saini, told the jury she was staying in her cell and was there with his permission.

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek and mum heading 'to shisha lounge' in Nottingham on night of crash​

Mahek told the police she was going to be paid to make an appearance at a shisha bar in Nottingham city centre. But she said she didin't know which one because she had been going to get a text later to tell her where the shisha bar was. And she said that her management team always deleted their messages and she didn't know the person who had invited her, who was the owner of the bar, she said.
She told the two officers she just put "Nottingham" in her Google Maps app to get directions. The officer asked her: "You just put in Nottingham and ended up in Leicester?" and she replied: "Yeah".

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[Luwin]

Mahek and mum heading 'to shisha lounge' in Nottingham on night of crash​

Mahek told the police she was going to be paid to make an appearance at a shisha bar in Nottingham city centre. But she said she didin't know which one because she had been going to get a text later to tell her where the shisha bar was. And she said that her management team always deleted their messages and she didn't know the person who had invited her, who was the owner of the bar, she said.
She told the two officers she just put "Nottingham" in her Google Maps app to get directions. The officer asked her: "You just put in Nottingham and ended up in Leicester?" and she replied: "Yeah".

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Had to look the distance up as a Southerner I had no clue of distance between the 2 - Google is saying around 50mins

 

[RusselSprout]

Mahek talks more about her issues with Saqib​

In her interview, Mahek claimed Saqib was harassing her online. She told the officers that Saqib had some fake photos of her - the prosecution's case is that Saqib was blackmailing her with explicit pictures of her mother. She told the officers: "It's threats and harassment. He has things on me that isn't true."
The officers asked her if she was in a sexual relationship with Saqib at any point and she said 'no'. She is asked if she saw Saqib at all over the night of his death and she replied 'no'.

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek asked about her relationship with her mother and her mother and Saqib​

Mahek was asked about her relationship with her mother, Ansreen, and she told the the officers: "A very good relationship." She added that her mother, who was also in custody at the time of the interview on Saturday, February 12, was aware of what - she claims - was happening with Saqib on the night of the fatal crash.
An officer asked: "Did your mum, did she ever have any relationship...." Mahek interrupted, saying: "No, no." She added: "I've never spoken to her about these things."
The officer asked: "Did she have any relationship with any other people?" She replied: "No, she loved my dad."
The jury has already heard that Mahek's mother was in a three-year sexual relationship with Saqib.

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek challenged with CCTV evidence during police interview​

In her second interview, one of the officers asked her: "Have you been telling me the truth?" and she replied that she had. The officer asked: "Are you sure?" and she replied that she was.
CCTV was shown to her of the Tesco car park in Hamilton, where she said the only other cars she had noticed were parked cars with their lights off. The footage, which the jury has already been shown, shows Mahek's Audi arriving with the Blue Seat Leon belonging to Natasha Aktar. The eight defendants all accept being in the two cars, the jury has heard.
The footage also shows the Skoda Fabia containing the two crash victims briefly entering the car park.
"That footage shows you following in a blue car." She replied she could not remember everything.
When she is asked about the Skoda, she said she wanted a break. The interview continued six minutes later.
"I'm still going to stay with the car being in front, I did not know that. Everything I've said until now is completely true.
"If your saying that Skoda is him, why didn't he say, 'I'm here, come park next to me let's talk'.
"I do apologise now I've seen it - there was a car in front. It was an empty car park and I left."

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[RusselSprout]

'Were you driving with due care and attention?'​

Mahek is asked about why she had driven to a dark corner of the car park. The officer said: "You're in the dark corner. You so scared of the man and the shop is lit up like a football stadium."
She replied she parked where Saqib would see her when she arrived. Again she was asked how she had been driving around the car park without noticing the two other cars. She was asked: "Were you driving with due care and attention?"

'I know my heart's pure'​

When challenged again about how she failed to see any other vehicles moving around in the almost-empty car park, she replied: "I'll be straight with you. I know my heart's pure. I know this." She said she had wanted to meet Saqib in the Tesco car park because she knew there were cameras there.
The officer then said: "You could argue you've chosen to go [to the dark corner of the car park] so that you're not seen on camera."
She replied: "My intentions were pure."

Mahek shown footage of her Audi TT 'following' Skoda​

The next footage she was shown during the interview was a clip of the Skoda at the Porsche dealership roundabout on the outer ring road, closely followed by the blue Seat Leon. Moments later the Audi follows them.
She said: "The only time I saw them was on the dual carriageway."
She said: "I don't memorise the cars. Everyone's got a different mentality. When I'm driving I do not care who was on the road."
She was told her story "doesn't match up to the facts". She said: "I'm not bothered about who's in front."

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[RusselSprout]

More footage shows cars together​

The next clip she was shown was taken from the stretch of the A607 from the Hobby Horse Roundabout to the roundabout near Asda in Thurmaston. The officer told her it appeared the three cars were all "very close". The officer said: "You could say you've tried to slow that car down".
When told the footage suggested she had been working with the Seat Leon to slow the Skoda down she replied: "I have no relationship to that car".
She was asked if she broke the speeding limit and she replied she hadn't. She was also asked if she had jumped a red light and she said she hadn't.
When asked if it's a coincidence Saqib and her are on the same road she replied that Saqib was a "stalker".

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek asked about- call from her mum's phone to car in crash vehicle​

When she is shown further footage she said she could not remember her car being so close to other cars before they reached the A46.
At 1.24am the police had records of a call from Ansreen's mobile phone to Hashim's phone in the Skoda ahead of her. She said she had already told the police about a phone call and she was told those conversations she had decribed had all happened much earlier.
She replied: "That is not fair. Everyone is expecting me to remember cars, times, routes."

Saqib's desperate 999 call played to Mahek in police interview​

The police 999 recording was played to Mahek during her police interview, in which he tells the operator, "Please, sir, I need help, please I'm begginyou, I'm going to die," and says someone is trying to kill him. Mahek can be seen covering her face with her hands and shaking her head.
After the call ended following the fatal crash, she started crying. "I mean, go into my phone and see what he's done to me. I would never lie. And the way he manipluates people is so good."

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[RusselSprout]

After hearing crash that killed Saqib she told police 'He's psychotic'​

Urging police to look at her text messages from Saqib she told them: "This person is very psychotic."
The officers interviewing Mahek asked if she had ever considered killing him to end the problems she was having with him.
She replied: "I asked him to Tesco to talk as human beings. Not to end a life off. My heart's clean."

Mahek refused to comment on mother's affair with Saqib​

In her next interview Mahek was asked about Ansreen's relationship with Saqib. But Mahek's lawyer interrupted and advised Mahek to answer "no comment" to questions about her mother and Saqib.
Next she was asked about Raees Jamal, who had been her follower in Instagram for the past two years. She said she had only chatted with him on SnapChat and had never had any phone call conversations with him.d only chatted with him on SnapChat and had never had any phone call conversations with him apart from via SnapChat.

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek denies conversations with Raees Jamal​

Mahek told the police her co-defendant Raees Jamal had phoned her briefly on the morning she was arrested and they talked "about life". She denied having any phone contact with him after the incident on the A46 and hadn't spoken to him for a "long time" before the call just before her arrest.
She is asked about messages and calls between them. Since January 2, the police said, there had been 14 calls and messages exchanged between them.
The officer said: "Why is Raees making all these attempts to make contact with you?" She replied: "I wouldn't know."

Muhek talks about meeting Rekan Karwan, YouTuber and a 'family friend'​

The police asked Mahek about her co-defendant Rekan Karwan next. She said she got to know him after his management got in touch about doing a YouTube "collaboration". She said the spoke on the phone sometimes but that she was not in a relationship with him.
She said he was SnapChatting her while she was in Leicester and last spoke to him "a few days before" she was arrested. She said: "I'm not definite."
She said she hadn't seen him in person since they were both in London in December and that she didn't know where he lived.

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek told by police there were 6 phone calls between them while she was in Tesco car park​

One of the police officers told Mahek there were six conversations between them in the five minutes from 1.15am until 1.20am - the time she was in the Tesco car park waiting for Saqib.
When asked about the six calls she replied: "I wouldn't know, sorry."
The officer warned Mahek she had "more than enough opportunity" to bring up the phone conversations with Rekan Karwan. She said: "I'm not going to remember everything, sorry".
After that, Mahek's solicitor interrupts again to tell her to answer "no comment" to further questions about the calls.

'No comment' answers on questions about Gipsy Lane​

Next, the police ask Mahek if she has ever been to Gipsy Lane and her solicitor interrupts to ask her to say 'no comment' again. The proseuction barrister Daren Samat tells the jury that was the last interview she said anything in.
The case will be starting again at about 10.30am on Friday, when the jury is expected to be watching more videos of interviews with the other defendants.

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[LouTennant]

I did not think that Maheks testimony could get any worse. She was talking out of her behind and then her lawer tells her to "no comment" on what is obviously the motivation for the crime.

Mahek should have been more honest and thrown herself at the mercy of the court. With that amount of cameras she was badly advised by her lawyer IMO

 

[JuicyLucy]

Mahek and mum heading 'to shisha lounge' in Nottingham on night of crash​

Mahek told the police she was going to be paid to make an appearance at a shisha bar in Nottingham city centre. But she said she didin't know which one because she had been going to get a text later to tell her where the shisha bar was. And she said that her management team always deleted their messages and she didn't know the person who had invited her, who was the owner of the bar, she said.
She told the two officers she just put "Nottingham" in her Google Maps app to get directions. The officer asked her: "You just put in Nottingham and ended up in Leicester?" and she replied: "Yeah".

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I agree. This in particular is such an absolute crock.

In my opinion.

 

[Pinkestpanther]

It was the ' I know my heart is pure' line that got me. She is seriously deluded.

 

[Kasmeer]

This whole situation makes my head spin, and today's interview coverage... wow. Well I guess perhaps she didn't know how much they knew at that point (although the likelihood of CCTV in a city should be fairly obvious...), but the "driving to Nottingham and ending up in Leicester" excuse just made me laugh out loud, inappropriate as that is when two men are dead.

Not sure how she thought any of that lot was in any way believable, although I guess it could tie in with a mindset that might think it's a good idea to get 8 people together to beat someone up (if proven, obviously).

 

[Smkd]

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'I did not commit these offences'​

The jury is back in court. Mr Justice Saina tells them the delay was "partly due to the late arrival of one of the defendants" from prison. Today the jury is to hear more about the police interviews.

Daran Samat for the prosecution has told them what happened when defendant Natasha Akhtar - the first person to be arrested - was interviewed. She provided the officers with a prepared statement via her lawyer.

The statement explained she was in custody at Euston Police Station in Leicester, arrested on suspicion of murder. She said: "I can confirm that I did not commit these offences. I can also confirm I was not the driver of any of the vehicles."

After that, she answered "no comment" to all questions the police put to her.

Mohammed Patel's interview is next to be shown to the jury​

The jury members are now watching the police interview with defendant Mohammed Patel who, the jury have already been told, was one of the more talkative suspects, telling police he was in the Audi TT with TikTok star Mahek Bukhari and described her making a call to crash victim Saqib Hussain, telling him, "watch what I do to you," shortly before the fatal crash. He also described conversations between his co-accused about ramming a car off the road.

'This is your first opportunity to talk to us about what happened'​

The police interviewing Patel tell him he has the right not to answer the officers' questions but one of them adds: "This is your first opportunity to talk to us about what happened". He is also warned that the interview is being videotaped and "could be played at a trial in the future".

The officers then tell him about the crash on the A46. The officer asks Patel if he is "responsible for the murder" of the two men and he says "no". He is asked if he was present when the crash happened and he says he was present. He said Raees Jamal had called him "about what was going down".

 

[RusselSprout]

Patel describes meeting ahead of Tesco incident​

Mohammed Patel told police he received a call from Raees Jamal, asking him to go to Rekan Karwan's house, where he met Mahek Bukhari and her mother, Ansreen.
Patel said: "I said I'd be at his friend Rekan's house. From there, an Audi TT passed me and did a U-turn by Rekan's house. From there, there's a conversation between Rekan and Mahek Bukhari, the daughter of Mrs Bukhari.
"I don't really know Rekan, I don't know Mahek. There's a conversation about going towards Tesco and for me to come out of the car with Rekan." He said Raees Jamal was "dressed in black".

Patel describes his friend putting a weapon in his trousers​

Outside Rekan's flat, Patel was given a wheel brace by Raees Jamal. He told the police: "He takes me to the back of the Audi TT and takes out the spare wheel tool and takes this tool out and puts it down between my trousers.
"He's got into his car to go towards Tesco, I think. We went to meet the two who have sadly passed away."
He said at that point he was in the Audi TT, next to Rekan Karwan, with Mahek's mum, Ansreen in the passenger seat and Mahek Bukhari driving. He said they went to Tesco to meet the two crash victims.
He said: "Raees Jamal has said we should go towards Tesco. We'll go there and meet there."

'We were just going to talk'​

Describing what happened next, Patel told the police officers: "We're at Tesco. Mr Jamal [driving the Seat Leon] has picked somewhere else with the three occupants inside the Seat - AJ, Natasha and a third one I believe his name was Sanaf.
"Raees Jamal has parked somewhere else. We are waiting for the two people who passed away.
"There's a staircase there and we're stod waiting for these two individuals to approach the car.
"From what my understanding of the situation was, we were just going to talk."

Patel describes Skoda fleeing after seeing him and Karwan lying in wait​

Next he described what happened when the Skoda Fabia arrived in the car park for the meeting. Patel said: "The Skoda has seen us two men stood at the stairwell, took off, quite quickly with the Seat Leon driving quite fast behind it."
He described the Audi TT, now being driven by Rekan Karwan, then following behind the other two cars and the route they took. He said: "From Tesco the two people that unfortunately passed away are now running away from the situation.
"I've no prior knowledge. They did start chasing the men - the Seat Leon was chasing the men. I've got back in the Audi TT with Mahek to the left of me and Rekan now driving, Mrs Bukhari in the passenger's seat.
"We're going towards the KFC roundabout, going straight over towards Thurmaston and towards Sainsbury's. We take a route towards the A46, past Costco and everything else."

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[RusselSprout]

Mahek allegedly told Saqib 'Watch what I do to you'​

Near Asda in Thurmaston, Patel tells the officers, there's a phone conversation between Mahek, who is sitting next to him in the Audi, and Saqib, the passenger in the Skoda Fabia that ended up crashing.
He said: "There's a heated conversation going on between Mahek Bukhari and Saqib. I didn't really follow what the situation was - I was under the influence of cannabis at the time.
"She says, 'Watch what I do to you'. I don't know what to do or how to get out of this situation."

Two pursuit cars collided before fatal crash​

In Patel's version of the chase up the A46, the Audi TT, being driven by Rekan Karwan, was more involved in trying to stop the Skoda Fabia but at one point the two cars containing the eight defendants accidentally collided with each other and Mahek told Karwan to keep away from the Skoda after that. The jury has heard the Audi TT was on loan from her car rental company because her own Audi was being repaired.
Patel said: "We go onto the A46. Raees is trying to overtake him, overtake the Skoda and stop him. We're inside the Audi TT still following.
"Then Rekan [driving the Audi] takes the lead, trying to do a tactical manoeuvre and stop them. He swung into the back of the Seat. Mahek said 'Don't damage this car'. He held back."

Seat Leon 'chasing the guy full on'​

Patel continued: "We're at the back of this pursuit now. Now the Skoda Fabia is trying to hit us. It's hit the driver's side in the rear. We've almost lost control but Rekan has managed to control the car.
"The Seat Leon is now chasing the guy full on. Raees's drivingj is very erratic. Now there's a phone call to my phone to Mr Jamal's phone. We're not able to stop them from the Audi TT."

'I might have to ram him'​

Patel described holding his phone up to Rekan Karwan, who was speaking to Raees Jamal. He said the two drivers discussed ramming the Skoda.
Patel said: "[Raees Jamal] says, 'I'm going to try to stop the guy, I might have to ram him'. [Rekan] says, yeah, go on, ram him'.

Raees Jamal's driving 'erratic' and 'very reckless'​

Patel added: "After that Raees's driving is very erratic and reckless, very reckless. He's managed to get in front of the Skoda Fabia, swerving all over the place between both lanes. It's like he's not in control of the car.
"The Skoda guys push past and manage to get through. There's a conversation between Rekan and Raees on my phone and Rekan says, 'Ram him'.
"The Skoda's in the middle of the two lanes, we're at the back. [Raees Jamal] has clipped [the Skoda] on the rear driver's side and he's been like that two or three times. The Skoda manages to get back on the straight."

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