Tiktok influencer 'murdered two (Banbury) men after one had affair with her mum and threatened to blackmail her with a sex tape'

A Tiktok influencer murdered two men after one of them had an affair with her married mum and threatened to blackmail her with a sex tape, a court heard.

Mahek Bukhari, 23, is accused of hatching a plot to stop Saqib Hussain, 21, from leaking revenge porn images of her mother, 45-year-old Ansreen Bukhari.

Saqib Hussain and his friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, 21, of Banbury, were killed when their car was rammed off the road and burst into flames just after midnight on February 11.

The court was told that the driver Mr Ijazuddin was "completely innocent" and just "doing a favour for a mate."

"This tragically turned out to be a fatal mistake," prosecutor Collingwood Thompson KC said. "It was a mistake that cost an innocent man his life."

The court heard Mahek had launched a 'trap' in order 'to silence' Saqib after he had threatened to send sexually explicit material of Ansreen to her husband and son.

Saqib also blackmailed Ansreen and demanded £2,000 to £3,000 in return for not releasing the images and 'dirty' videos, it was claimed.

Jurors heard that Mahek, concerned for the impact on her own social media following, vowed to get Saqib 'jumped by guys' and added: "He won't know what day it is".

The two men, were killed instantly when their Skoda Fabia hit a tree at high speed and split into two on the A46 in Leicester.

A chilling 999 call was played to the jury in which Saqib is heard telling call operators they were being chased by men in balaclavas.

He pleads: “I am being followed by two vehicles. They are trying to ram me off the road.

"They're right behind. They're hitting into the back of the car very fast. I am going to be rammed off the road.

“Please sir I just need help and I am in danger.

"They are trying to kill me. Please I'm begging you, I'm going to die."

He then screams before a loud crash is heard.

Mehek is charged with two counts of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter alongside her mother Ansreen and friend Natasha Akhtar, 22.

They have gone on trial along with Raees Jamal, 22, Rekan Karwan, 28, Mohammed Patel, 20, Sanaf Gulammustafa, 22 and Ameer Jamal, 27, who face the same charges.

Opening the case at Leicester Crown Court, Mr Thompson told the jury it was a case about 'love, obsession, anger, attempts at extortion and murder'.

He said: "The telephone call led to a major investigation into this case which revealed a story of love, obsession, anger, attempts at extortion and ultimately murder.

"This was no accident, he knew what was happening to him. That is how the police know it was not just a road traffic accident.

“He said several times ‘they are going to ram me of the road, they are going to kill me’.

“That 999 call sparked a major murder investigation.“

Mr Thompson told the court Saqib’s sister had revealed he was having an affair of three years with Ansreen.

Saqib’s mobile phone was destroyed in the fire, but police were able to retrieve data from the iCloud.

Mr Thompson added: “The police were able to obtain access to his information on the iCloud from his phone and this is how the police pieced together their relationship.

“Between August 10, 2021 and February 9 2022, Saqib had contacted Ansreen Bukhari 1,702 times. Ansreen contacted Saqib in this period 214 times too.

“The number of calls suggest there was a relationship between the two of them.

“Mobile phone information on iCloud showed that there was a sexual relationship between the two."

The court heard the affair had recently ended but Saqib wanted to resume the relationship and continued to message and phone her.

Mr Thompson added: “He became very obsessive and his anger went to blackmail when she was not answering calls.

“He threatened to send the sexually explicit Instagram material to her husband and son if she did not contact him.”

Jurors also heard WhatsApp messages were sent between Ansreen and Mahek Bukhari about Saqib’s constant messaging.

In a message sent on January 4 to her mother, Mahek wrote: “I’ll soon get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is."

Mr Thompson, added: “That's her saying 'I'll take care of that', we will come to hear he was jumped mostly by guys and killed.

"The threats from Saqib had continued from January to February."

One of the messages Saqib sent to Ansreen said: “You know what I am capable of. I will send the nudes of you first.”

Mr Thompson said: "A way had to be found to silence Saqib – either by causing him really serious injury to warn him, or to silence forever by killing him.

“It was worried the affair could have ruined Asreen Bukhari’s marriage and damage her reputation in her community.

“It could have also affected Mahek’s relationship with her father because she knew about the affair. Mahek was a social influencer and had a large following on TikTok.”

Thompson said the alleged plotters were discussing a “trap”.

He added: “The idea was that they would set a trap. The idea was to lure Saqib into a meeting and get the money. Once at the meeting, he would be confronted with numerical superiority and it was hoped he would hand the phone over. If not, they would cause him serious harm.”

The court heard the flaming car was spotted by witnesses driving past the scene who noticed the vehicle had 'disintegrated'.

Mr Thompson added: “By the time the police got onto the dual carriage they could see a fire in the distance. Because of the intensity of the fire they could not safely approach it. Only when they had put out the fire did they see a body hanging out the car and another body in the driver’s seat.

“They were both 21 years old and identified through dental investigations.

"By 9:30am on the same morning three of the defendants here today had been arrested. This was Natasha Akhtar, Mahek Bukhari and Ansreen Bukhari."

Mahek and Ansreen, of Stoke-on-Trent, deny murder alongside Akhtar, of Birmingham.

Raess Jamal, of Loughborough, Leics., Karwan, Patel, Gulammustafa and Ammeer Jamal, of Leicester, also deny the charge.

The trial continues.

A fund was opened to build a new mosque in the two men’s memories after their deaths.