TikToker who murdered mum’s toyboy lover and his pal in fireball crash has jail term SLASHED
A TIKTOKER who murdered her mum’s toyboy lover and his pal in fireball crash today had her jail term slashed.
Mahek Bukhari, 23, rammed Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain, both 21, off the road along with six others.
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Mahek Bukhari was jailed for life for two counts of murderCredit: Instagram
She launched an appeal against her sentenceCredit: PA
Bukhari was involved in a car chase with the victims
The Instagram influencer hatched the murderous plot to “silence” Saqib after he blackmailed her mum Ansreen Bukhari, 45, with sex tapes.
Bukhari was jailed for life in September 2023 with a minimum of 31 years and eight months for two counts of murder.
She launched an appeal against her sentence, which was today granted by top judges.
Lord Justice Warby, Mr Justice Lavender and Judge Sylvia De Bertodano found her sentence to be “manifestly excessive” and reduced the minimum term to one of 26 years and 285 days.
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Reading a summary of the ruling in court, Lord Justice Warby said: “The judge did not make enough allowance for the fact that this appellant was an immature 22-year-old at the time of these offences.”
Her lawyers had previously argued the original jail term was “wholly disproportionate”.
Jurors at Bukhari’s trial in 2023 were told the horror smash was “no ordinary traffic accident”.
Instead, it was a “story of love, obsession, extortion and, ultimately, cold-blooded murder”, prosecutors said.
Saqib had been in a relationship with married Ansreen for about three years and “appeared to be in love” with her.
During the illicit tryst, he splurged £3,000 on Ansreen, who he called “Anzy”, on date nights.
By January 2022, the mum was trying to end the relationship but “increasingly obsessive” Saqib would not accept it was over.
As a result, he “took to attempting to blackmail Ansreen” by threatening to send their sex tapes to her husband.
On January 4, Mahek Bukhari sent her mum a message which read: “I’ll get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.”
The TikTok influencer also messaged her mum’s ex-lover, telling him: “I am sorry that this year you’ll be gone, Saqib.”
She and her mum hatched a plot to “silence” Saqib with her mum by luring him in with the offer of getting his £3,000 back.
On February 10, he was driven by “completely innocent” friend Hashim to collect the cash from Leicester.
Shortly after, Saqib made a harrowing 999 call in the minutes leading up to the crash.
He said: “I’m being followed by two vehicles and they’re trying to block me in. I can’t get to a police station – I need help right now.
“There’s guys following me. They’ve got balaclavas on.
“They’re trying to ram me off the road. They’re trying to kill me – I’m going to die.”
After giving his name to the operator, Saqib then begs: “They’re hitting into the back of the car very fast.
“Please, I’m begging you, I’m going to die.”
He can then be heard screaming before the clip cuts off.
Moments later, the Skoda Fabia the friends were travelling in smashed into a tree on a central reservation and “split in two”.
Ansreen Bukhari and Mahek Bukhari denied but were convicted of two counts of murder.
Fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal were also found guilty of two counts of murder.
Natasha Akhtar, Ameer Jamal and Sanaf Gulamustafa were all found not guilty of murder, but guilty of two counts of manslaughter.
The three were jailed for 11 years and eight months, 14 years and eight months, and 14 years and nine months, respectively.
They also challenged their sentences alongside Mahek at the hearing in London – with the judges reducing the terms by two years each.
Lord Justice Warby said: “It seems to us indisputable that the car chase carried a high risk of death or really serious harm and that this should have been obvious to all those in each car.”
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But he continued that the “minor role played by each” of them should have had a “powerful downward impact” on the sentences.
The judge added: “The sentences for all these appellants were manifestly excessive. They could and should have been substantially lower.”
Ansreen Bukhari had been in a relationship with victim Saqib Hussain
He was killed in the death crashCredit: PA
His friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin was also killedCredit: PA
The mum and daughter were both convicted
Bukhari spun a web of lies after she was arrestedCredit: Instagram
