TikTok influencer guilty of murdering 2 men in a crash near Leicester
21 year olds Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain died after their car crashed on the A46.
Last updated 4th Aug 2023
A TikTok influencer accused of killing 2 men in a crash near Leicester has been convicted of their murder.
23 year old Mahek Bukhari, from Stoke-on-Trent, was found guilty following a trial at Leicester crown court.
She was convicted alongside her mum, 45 year old Ansreen Bukhari.
Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain, both 21, died on the A46 near Leicester in February 2022.
The pair played a part in ramming the men off the road to keep an affair between Ansreen and Mr Hussain secret.
Saquib had been threatening to send explicit videos and images of his lover to her husband after she broke off their three-year affair.
The court was told the mother and daughter plotted with a group of six others to set Saquib up by getting him to meet them in a car park in Leicester under false pretences.
In a 999 call to police made by front-seat passenger Mr Hussain moments before his death, he said their car was being "rammed off the road" by balaclava-wearing assailants in two pursuing cars.
Bukhari and her mum were both found guilty of 2 counts of murder following a three month retrial after the previous jury was discharged last year.
Fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal were also found guilty of two counts of murder - while Natasha Akhtar, Ameer Jamal and Sanaf Gulamustafa were all found not guilty of murder, but guilty of two counts of manslaughter.
Mohammed Patel was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.
Judge Timothy Spencer KC thanked the jury, made up of five men and seven women, and excused them from jury duty for the next 30 years.
The defendants will be sentenced on September 1.
Before remanding them into custody, the judge said: "You know the sentence will be very serious."