Somerset man sentenced to life for killing wife
Aminan Rahman has been jailed for life for attacking his young wife
An "evil" man has been jailed for life for strangling his young wife and dumping her body in a river.
Aminan Rahman, 46, attacked 24-year-old Suma Begum after he found out she was having an online affair.
The killing was witnessed by Ms Begum's online boyfriend via a video call from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he was living.
Rahman then put Ms Begum into a suitcase while she was either dead or unconscious and was caught on CCTV dumping the suitcase in the River Lea, which runs through east London to the Thames.
The suitcase containing her decomposed body was found washed up on the riverbank by a mudlarker 10 days later.
Following a trial, Rahman, formerly of Bridgwater in Somerset, was found guilty of murder and assaulting Ms Begum having admitted preventing her lawful and decent burial.
Mr Justice Bennathan jailed restaurant worker Rahman for life with a minimum term of 22 years.
"She had dreamed of a new, different life"
The senior judge told Rahman: "Suma Begum was a lively, attractive young woman and a devoted mother.
"She was kind to you even when she decided, as was her right, that she no longer wanted to be your wife.
"She had dreamed of a new, different life with a man about her own age, which dreams you stopped on April 29 last year when you very deliberately killed her.
"Sadly these courts often have to deal with men who have murdered their wives or partners, but what you did was more shocking even than most of those awful crimes.
"Within moments of strangling Ms Begum you folded her body into a suitcase and threw it into the Thames basin, hoping it would never be found."
He said the murderous violence was not an "isolated incident" as Rahman had seized his wife by the throat a couple of months before.
In a victim impact statement on behalf of Ms Begum's family, her half-brother Abdul Amin described Rahman as an "evil man".
He said: "The reason this happened is because Aminan is a selfish and jealous man who could not stand the fact that his wife no longer wanted to be in a relationship with him."
Giving evidence, Rahman accepted killing Ms Begum but claimed he never intended to harm her and had acted in the defence of one of his children - a claim rejected by the prosecution.