TikTok influencer, Mahek Bukhari, blows a kiss to her father as she is taken down to serve life in prison alongside her mother, Ansreen Bukhari for murdering toyboy lover and his friend
A TikTok influencer blew a kiss to her father as she was taken down to serve life in prison alongside her mother for the murder of two men who died during a 100mph car chase.
Social media creator Mahek Bukhari, 24, and Ansreen Bukhari, 46, hatched a plot to silence the mother’s toyboy Saqib Hussain after he threatened to expose his affair with her by leaking their sex tape.
Hussain was killed in a 100mph fireball crash alongside his friend Hashim 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.
Today as he passed down sentencing at Leicester Crown Court, Judge Timothy Spencer KC said the 999 call heard was ‘one of the most moving and distressing pieces of evidence ever heard in court’.
Mahek wiped away tears as she was handed a minimum of 31 years and eight months and described by the judge as ‘self obsessed’. Her mother will serve a minimum of 26 years and nine months.
Judge Spencer told Mahek she had an exaggerated sense of entitlement, saying: ‘You are oblivious to the damage you do.’ Before her arrest 18 months ago, Mahek, now aged 24, had boasted of having more than 126,000 followers on TikTok and a further 43,000 on Instagram.
He continued: ‘The prosecution categorised this as a story of love, obsession and extortion and in that they were right. They were also right in categorising this case as one of cold-blooded murder.’ He said the pair had caused a deadly ‘maelstrom.’
Mahek 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 with her mother Ansreen.
The daughter then lied to police in a desperate attempt to escape justice, giving a rambling account of witnessing a traffic accident in which she squared the blame at two other vehicles.
Fellow defendant Rekhan Karwan, 29, and Raees Jamal, 23, have also been sentenced to life. Karwan has received a minimum term of 26 years and 10 months – 362 days on remand will be deducted.
Raees Jamal is currently serving a rape sentence – a detail which could not be revealed until sentencing had concluded.