Ansreen Bukhari and daughter Mahek were jailed following the double murder of two young men (Image: TikTok / maybvlogs)
A devastated dad whose son, 21, was killed by his 46-year-old lover and her daughter – a TikTok star daughter, 24, claims the older woman “groomed” his boy.
Mum-of-two Ansreen Bukhari and her daughter Mahek were jailed for life with a minimum term of more than 26 years and 31 years respectively for ambushing and then murdering two men during a high-speed car chase in 2022.
Saqib Hussain was killed alongside his friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, 21, after Mr Hussain attempted to blackmail married Mrs Bukhari, who he had been in a sexual relationship with.
Sajad Hussain, Mr Hussain’s father, has now attacked his son’s murderers, arguing that Mrs Bukhari’s “fame” off the back of her daughter’s TikTok success meant “she thought she was untouchable, above the law”.
He went on to tell The Sun that Mr Hussain was just 18 when he first encountered Mrs Bukhari, who was “older than his own mother”. He claimed his son “fully trusted her”.
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Saqib Hussain was threatening to expose his fling with Mrs Bukhari before he was killed (Image: PA)
Mr Hussain and Mr Ijazuddin died when their car left the A46 dual carriageway near Leicester, with prosecutors saying during a three-month murder trial at Leicester Crown Court that they were deliberately rammed off the road.
The victims, from Banbury in Oxfordshire, were in a Skoda being chased by Audi and Seat vehicles containing eight defendants.
Mrs Bukhari and her daughter plotted to “jump” Mr Hussain and took part in an ambush after Mr Hussain threatened to use sexually-explicit material to expose his long-running affair with Mrs Bukhari. Both women were in the chasing vehicles when the incident occurred.
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, 2022.
The victims had to be identified by their dental records.
Mrs Bukhari and her daughter appearing at court in 2023 (Image: PA)
Prosecutors said Mr Hussain was “lured” into meeting with the Bukharis in the Tesco car park in Hamilton, Leicester, for “one last meeting” on the pretence of giving him back the £3,000 he said he had spent on taking his lover out during their tryst.
But Ansreen and Mahek arrived at the arranged meet-up along with the six others in two vehicles, an Audi TT and a Seat Leon.
Mr Hussain then arrived at the car park in a Skoda Fabia, being driven by his friend Mr Ijuzaddin, who had said he would take him to Leicester as a “favour”.
CCTV footage showed the Skoda Fabia arrive in the car park and then immediately leave, with the Audi TT and Seat Leon following the Skoda out of the car park two minutes later.
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Mahek and Ansreen Bukhari both received life sentences (Image: PA)
The cars then ultimately ended up in a chase, with analysis by forensic collision investigators showing the Audi had reached speeds of up to 100mph.
The speed of the Skoda at the time of the crash, which was not captured on CCTV, was estimated at being in excess of 80mph.
In a 999 call to police made by front-seat passenger Mr Hussain moments before his death, he said their car was being “rammed off the road” by balaclava-wearing assailants in two pursuing cars.
In a victim impact statement read out in court by prosecutor Collingwood Thompson KC, Mr Hussain’s dad Sajad, who was in court surrounded by family, described his son as his “pride and joy”.
He said: “The joy Saqib bought into our lives was immeasurable. His beautiful presence was a gift. He brought love and light into the lives of everyone who knew him. He was kind-hearted and selfless, and he was loved by all his friends and family and everyone who knew him.”
Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin also died in the horrific crash (Image: PA)
He described how Saqib’s mother fell to the floor “crying and screaming ‘my child, my child'”, when they were told by police their son had died.
Mr Ijazuddin’s father Sikander Hayat told the packed courtroom his family have been living a “never-ending nightmare that has shattered our lives”.
Looking at the defendants in the dock, he said: “Hashim was innocent. Totally innocent. One hundred per cent innocent.”
He added: “We are not the same and we have realised we never will be so carefree and happy again. My heart has been ripped out. Why did this happen to him? He did not know his murderers or what awaited him in that Tesco car park.
“We have lost our son in the worst possible way. The fear he must have felt in the moments leading up to his death. He was left with his friend to burn. It is heart-shattering.”
The awful ordeal is to be unpicked in ITV documentary, TikTok: Murder Gone Viral — The Mother & Daughter Killers airing tonight (January 30) on ITV1 at 9pm.
