A MOTHER-OF TWO wrote a WhatsApp message to friends predicting her own death.
Aaisha Hasan, 32, made a “chilling” forecast about her safety as she also urged pals to take care of her children if something did happen to her.
She feared being killed by husband Asim Hasan before he stabbed her to death in a “ferocious and really quite savage attack”, prosecutors told the Old Bailey.
One audio clip allegedly found on her phone included Mrs Hasan telling her husband: “The next time you will kill me – I don’t want that”.
She raised the alert with friends after becoming so “sufficiently scared of her husband” thatshe started recording him on her phone, prosecutor Joel Smith told jurors on Thursday.
One folder on the mobile was labelled “hidden” and held images including a black eye and cuts to her face, allegedly taken after Hasan was violent in February and April last year and 11 days before she died last May.
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And last May 9, just ten days before she died, Mrs Hasan sent a “desperate” WhatsApp message to friends which Mr Smith described as particularly “chilling”.
She confided her husband had accused her of being unfaithful and also told how she feared “he would have killed me” but for others being present in their Canning Town, East London home.
Mrs Hasan wrote: “I don’t want to call the police on him coz this can get him into serious trouble I just want him out of the house now. I don’t feel safe.”
The court heard how 33-year-old Hasan dialled 999 on the morning of last May 19 and told the operator: “I just stabbed my wife.”
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Mrs Hasan suffered 36 wounds in the attack, including one inflicted with such force it “cut a wedge of bone” from her skull, Mr Smith said.
The victim, who had defensive cuts to her hands, was pronounced dead at 7.20am after police and paramedics found her lying in a pool of blood, jurors heard.
A black-handled kitchen knife allegedly used by the defendant was found on the cooker.
Hasan allegedly told officers after being arrested and when interviewed: “I am guilty and you can charge me.”
Prosecutors told how the couple had allegedly rowed in the weeks leading up to Mrs Hasan’s death over money, Hasan’s behaviour and his accusation his wife was having an affair despite her repeated denials.
Mr Smith told jurors that in a “cruel twist” it was actually Hasan looking to have an affair, contacting a woman on a Muslim dating site days before his wife’s death.
Hasan accepts killing his wife but denies murder because he did not intend to cause serious harm, Mr Smith said.
The defendant denies murder and the trial continues.
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