Two of these killers had a perverse mother-daughter dynamic that would make Freud faint. So why is this show so determined to unconvincingly pin the blame on TikTok?
A new ITV docu-series, TikTok: Murders Gone Viral, will explore three murder cases that went viral on the social media platform. The first episode, which airs on Tuesday, January 30, will look back at the case of Mahek Bukhari, who was convicted of double murder alongside her mother for causing a fatal car crash.
Mahek, a TikTok influencer, and her mother Ansreen made history last year when they became the first mother and daughter convicted of a double murder in Britain following the deaths of Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin.
In 2019 Ansreen began speaking with Hussain via the video app Azar. They spoke everyday and their on/off relationship lasted three years. However, Ansreen had been married for over 20 years and was not planning on leaving her partner.
Detective Inspector Mark Parish said Ansreen and Hussain met in hotels, restaurants and shisha lounges, but in 2021 Ansreen wanted to end things between them. Hussain wanted Ansreen to reconsider and threatened to send explicit content of her to her husband and son.
At the time Ansreen told her daughter Mahek, who decided to take things into her own hands. Mahek wanted to help her mother, and so she and her friend Rekan Karwan planned to lure Hussain to a meeting point by offering £3,000.
Mahek's ex-boyfriend Azhar tells the new documentary: "[Mahek] would take her mum to shisha lounges, she would take her to clubs that they would get promoted for - paid for. They were living the high life, they were literally clubbing 24/7, going everywhere together… She's trying to act like her daughter. It was really unusual."
In February 2022 a group also including Raees Jamal, Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulamustafa and Natasha Akhtar travelled to a Tesco car park in Leicester, where they planned to ambush Hussain. Hussain's friend Hashim Ijazuddin offered to drive him to the meeting place.
Hussain and Ijazuddin arrived at the car park in the early hours of the morning and after waiting around, they left but were followed by two cars. The cars were a blue Seat Leon, which was driven by Jamal, and an Audi TT, which was driven by Karwan.
Hussain called the police and told the operator he was in a car that was being followed, and said that the car was trying to ram him off of the road. After the call Hussain and Ijazuddin continued driving and went through a red light to lose those following them. The final moments of the 999 call hears the line go silent before "screams and quiet".
Cliffs:
- The mother and daughter are social tik tok influencers with other 120k subscribers.
- The mother who is married and is 46 now was having an affair with 22 year old Saqib Hussain. He was 18 at the time the affair started, and she was 42
- They come from a Muslim community so if this affair was to be leaked, it could kill their reputation
- Saqib threatened to release sexual images and sex tapes that he and the mother had over their 3 year affair to the Muslim community, after the mother ended the affair.
- The daughter got a load of her Tik Tok followers involved to plan an attack on Saqib to recover the phone that had the images/videos.
- It ended with two young men tragically being rammed off a road at 100mph, hitting a tree, and their car bursting into flames.
- The daughter got 31 years for murder, the mother got 26 years for murder. Two accomplishes who were driving both vehicles got 30 years each (one got an additional 6 years for a rape conviction).
- The others got sent down for manslaughter.
Ye Meng Yuan, one of two Chinese teenagers who died at the scene of Asiana Flight 214's crash in San Francisco, was alive when she was struck by an emergency vehicle responding to the disaster, San Mateo County (Calif.) coroner Robert Foucrault told reporters Friday.
Travis Santay Lewis, 39, is suspected of killing Martha McKay - a member of the Snowden family - who was found dead at the Snowden House at Horseshoe Lake.
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Teen breaks into a mansion (supposedly thinking no one is home) and upon discovering people in the house, he murdered them.
The daughter of one of the victims wound up befriending the perp as he served time in prison. She went on to push for his early release, and once he was released, actually she employed him on her estate.
The perp wound up stealing 10 grand from the woman and was fired. He went back and murdered her for revenge.
The perp tried to evade police in a nearby lake and drowned to death.
Travis Santay Lewis, 39, is suspected of killing Martha McKay - a member of the Snowden family - who was found dead at the Snowden House at Horseshoe Lake.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Teen breaks into a mansion (supposedly thinking no one is home) and upon discovering people in the house, he murdered them.
The daughter of one of the victims wound up befriending the perp as he served time in prison. She went on to push for his early release, and once he was released, actually she employed him on her estate.
The perp wound up stealing 10 grand from the woman and was fired. He went back and murdered her for revenge.
The perp tried to evade police in a nearby lake and drowned to death.
Travis Santay Lewis, 39, is suspected of killing Martha McKay - a member of the Snowden family - who was found dead at the Snowden House at Horseshoe Lake.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Teen breaks into a mansion (supposedly thinking no one is home) and upon discovering people in the house, he murdered them.
The daughter of one of the victims wound up befriending the perp as he served time in prison. She went on to push for his early release, and once he was released, actually she employed him on her estate.
The perp wound up stealing 10 grand from the woman and was fired. He went back and murdered her for revenge.
The perp tried to evade police in a nearby lake and drowned to death.
The blood found in the home of the man who was last seen with a missing woman whose dismembered remains were found has been determined not to be blood from the missing woman. The article doesn't say if it was human blood. If it was human blood, could it be some other person who was killed? If it is human blood, I assume they are checking for other missing persons.
I avoid my own relatives who have been locked up. Could not imagine befriendinf someone locked up for harming my family... Insanity, or just plain old stupidity?
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