Who’s Mahek Bukhari? The TikTok influencer convicted of double homicide
Social media influencer Mahek Bukhari had greater than 120,000 followers on TikTok, the place she shared common style updates, sometimes showing along with her mom Ansreen Bukhari.
But after the glamour of on-line stardom, the pair at the moment are going through prolonged jail phrases after they have been convicted of murdering two young men throughout a high-speed automotive chase.
Mahek, 24, who was identified to her followers as Maya, hatched the plan when 46-year-old Ansreen admitted she had been having an affair and was being blackmailed by her 21-year-old lover after attempting to finish the connection.
Mahek Bukhari and Ansreen. Pic: TikTok
Saqib Hussain was threatening to ship intercourse tapes to Ansreen’s husband if she didn’t pay again the £3,000 he had spent on dates along with her.
The mom and daughter “set a trap”, a courtroom was advised, by arranging “an ambush” assembly in a grocery store automotive park in Leicester, the place the ladies arrived in an Audi with different folks they knew in a Saab.
Mr Hussain and his buddy Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, additionally 21, didn’t get out of their Skoda and after they left have been adopted by the opposite vehicles.
By the time the 2 males, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, reached the A46 duel carriageway, the Audi had reached speeds of just about 100mph.
“They’re trying to ram us off the road,” Mr Hussain is heard saying in a panicked 999 name performed to jurors in the course of the Bukharis’ trial. “Please, I’m begging you, I’m going to die.” There is a scream earlier than the decision cuts out on the sound of a loud bang.
Saqib Hussain, 21, had been in a relationship with 46-year-old Ansreen Bukhari
The car “virtually split in two” and caught fireplace after hitting a tree on the Six Hills junction close to Leicester simply after midnight on 11 February 2022, a jury was advised.
When the police got here to her home, Mahek lied about the place she had been on the evening of the crash, claiming: “First we stayed here and then we went straight to Nottingham.”
Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin was within the passenger seat of Saqib Hussain’s automotive
After her arrest, she modified her story, admitting she was on the street that evening, however telling officers in an interview: “As soon as I turn around the silver car is gone.
“The silver automotive swerved, to not my facet, to the opposite facet of the duel carriageway… I did not see the automotive, I did not see a bang.”
During her trial, Mahek admitted she had repeatedly lied to police.
Leicestershire Police’s Detective Inspector Mark Parish stated: “I think sometimes it’s been very hard for the families to grasp, to hear different accounts. No real admission of guilt or feelings for the lads that died.”