A court has heard that a Tiktok celebrity allegedly killed her mum’s young lover by “ramming him off the road” as he threatened to make a sex tape public.
Saqib Hussain and his companion Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21 years old, were allegedly killed in February of last year by Mahek Bukhari, 23, and her mother Ansreen Bukhari.
The Skoda Fabia Mr. Ijazuddin was driving when it was forced off the A46 in Leicestershire and “split in two” against a tree, killing the two men, who were both from Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Leicester Crown Court heard the 999 call to police made by front-seat passenger Mr Hussain just moments before his death.
He claimed their car was being ‘rammed off the road’ by balaclava-wearing assailants following in two pursuing cars.
In the recording, Mr Hussain said: ‘They’re trying to kill me, they’re trying to kill me. I’m just getting rammed off the road.
He can then be heard saying: ‘Please, I am begging you.’
Mr Hussain was heard to say ‘Oh my God’, before there was a scream, with the call cutting off abruptly at the sound of an impact.
Mr Ijazuddin agreed to drive his friend to Leicester that night and had been ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’, with the favour to Mr Hussain turning out ‘to be a tragic and fatal mistake’, prosecutors said.
Opening the Crown’s case, Collingwood Thompson KC told jurors it had been the 999 call which was key to the prosecution’s assertion ‘this was no ordinary traffic accident’.
After his death, Mr Hussain’s family later told detectives he had been having a three-year affair with the older woman, who was married with children.
Although starting off as ‘a bit of fun’ although with ‘quarrels’ for Mr Hussain the relationship ‘changed’ and he later told family ‘he was in love’ with Mrs Bukhari.
He spent up to £3,000 on taking Mrs Bukhari out, with the two having a ‘clear sexual relationship’.
Mr Thompson said: ‘A number of sexually-explicit videos and pictures were found, involving both Saqib Hussain and Ansreen Bukhari.
‘The existence of that material is at the very centre of this case because it was what that material could do that the Crown say led to … the murder of these two young men.’
By January 2022, Mrs Bukhari was trying to end the relationship, against Mr Hussain’s wishes.
He then became ‘increasingly obsessive about the relationship, professing his love for Ansreen and begging her to continue the relationship’, eventually ‘turning to blackmail’ to convince Mrs Bukhari to call him.
Mr Thompson said Mr Hussain threatened to send sexually explicit material to Mrs Bukhari’s husband.
‘What is implicit there, is her husband is going to be told about the affair, as is her son,’ added the prosecutor.
On January 4, last year Mahek Bukhari sent her mum a message which read: ‘I’ll get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.’
When Mr Hussain also tried to get Mahek Bukhari to get her mum to reply to him, the influencer replied: ‘She ain’t a dog, don’t f****** raise your voice and tell me what to do.’
Later, she allegedly told him: ‘I am sorry that this year you’ll be gone, Saqib.’
The mum and daughter, both from Stoke-on-Trent then decided they needed to ‘silence’ Mr Hussain.
On February 8, 2022, the Crown claimed Mahek Bukhari’s friend 29-year-old Rekan Karwan, of Tomlin Road, Leicester, was brought in, at first, helping in ‘negotiating with Saqib Hussain over money’.
He then allegedly brought in Natasha Akhtar, 22, Raees Jamal, 22, Rekan Karwan, 28, Mohammed Patel, 20, Sanaf Gulammustafa, 22, and Ammeer Jamal, 27.
All eight defendants are accused of murdering both men and also face two alternative manslaughter counts, but deny any wrong-doing.
The trial continues.