TikTok killer Mahek Bukhari will appeal her life sentence for murdering her mother’s toyboy lover and his friend in 100mph car chase after sex tape blackmail
- She was jailed for murdering Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin
TikTok killer Mahek Bukhari is said to be set to appeal her life sentence for murdering her mother’s toyboy lover and his friend in a 100mph car chase.
The 24-year-old social media influencer was jailed for life, while her mother was handed a 26-year prison sentence, for ambushing and then murdering Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin lin February last year.
Bukhari, her mother Ansreen and two others – Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal – were all being convicted of murder on Friday. Three others were convicted of manslaughter.
Unless her appeal is successful, Bukhari must spend the next 31 years and 8 months behind bars before she is eligible to be considered for parole for the ‘cold-blooded murder’.
It came after the breakdown of an affair between Ansreen and Mr Hussain which saw him threaten to send a sex tape of her to her husband to expose their relationship.
Social media influencer Mahek Bukhari(pictured), 24, was jailed for life, while her mother was handed a 26-year prison sentence
TikTok killer Bukhari (pictured with her mother Ansreen) is said to be set to appeal her life sentence for murdering her mother’s toyboy lover and his friend in a 100mph car chase
Saqib Hussain (left) and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin (right) who were ambushed and murdered in February last year
Mr Hussain was killed in the fireball crash alongside his friend Mr Ijazuddin, both 21, after their Skoda was deliberately rammed off the A46 dual carriageway near Leicester by balaclava-wearing assailants in two pursuing cars on February 11 last year.
But Bukhari’s barrister, Christopher Millington KC, said she would be requesting leave to appeal against the conviction. The first step will be an application to a High Court judge for leave to appeal.
If that is granted, the case will go to the Court of Appeal and if it is rejected she will be able to have a second attempt to get leave to appeal in front of a panel of judges.
At the sentencing hearing at Leicester Crown Court on Friday the barrister for another defendant, Natasha Akhtar, announced that his client was also going to appeal.
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It is understood from solicitors involved in the defence case that several others – possibly including Mahek’s mother Ansreen – will also consider an attempt to appeal.
The victims, from Banbury in Oxfordshire, were in a Skoda being chased by Audi and Seat vehicles containing the eight defendants in the case.
Bukhari was said to have taken part in the ambush after Mr Hussain threatened to use sexually-explicit material to expose a long-running affair he had been having with her mother, who was married.
The court was told Mr Ijazuddin’s Skoda Fabia ‘split in two’ and caught fire after hitting a tree at the Six Hills junction in the early hours of February 11 last year.
The victims had to be identified by their dental records.
Mahek Bukhari (left) and her mother Ansreen Bukhari (right)have been found guilty of the murders of Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin in a high-speed car chase in February 2022
Mr Ijazuddin’s car was deliberately rammed off the road and was split in two before erupting into flames on the A46 in February last year
Her TikTok account, which has some 135,000 followers, shows videos being posted right up until four days before the crash
During sentencing, the judge said that a chilling phone call played to the court, which was a recording of Mr Hussain’s desperate 999 call seconds before the crash, was one of the most harrowing pieces of evidence he had ever heard.
Bukhari showed no remorse during the trial and lied to police about the chase, as she was seen talking and laughing in court and even playing games while the jury was out.
After sentencing, she blew a kiss to her father and said ‘call me’ as she was taken down.
Her TikTok account, which has some 135,000 followers, shows videos being posted right up until four days before the crash.
The jury spent about five days considering their verdicts in the case. Each of the eight defendants had been charged with murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter, with additional charges of causing death by dangerous driving for Rekan Karwan and Raees Jamal.
Akhtar was found guilty of manslaughter but not murder and the same was the case for defendants Ameer Jamal and Sanaf Gulammustafa. The eighth defendant, Mohammed Patel, was cleared of all charges.
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