A TikTok influencer was sentenced to life in prison after she enlisted a group of associates to ram a man off the road, leading to his and his friend's deaths.
Mahek Bukhari hatched the plan after one of the men had threatened to expose his affair with her mother, Ansreen Bukhari.
Their eventual sentencing and life is the focus of an ITV documentary episode which aired again last night, TikTok: Murder Gone Viral – The Mother and Daughter Killers.
Bukhari was a TikTok influencer with over 160,000 followers and her mother often took part in her videos.
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Her mother, 46 at the time of her sentencing, was engaged in an affair with a 21-year-old man, Saqib Hussain, who she'd met in 2019 through a video app, the BBC reports.
Saqib and Ansreen had been having a relationship in secret on-and-off for three years when she decided to break things off in 2021.
When Saqib threatened to expose intimate images and videos of her in an attempt to stop her leaving him, Ansreen told her daughter Mahek, who then hatched a plan to silence him.
The pair invited Saqib to a supermarket car park in Leicester, promising to give him £3,000 he had spent in his three-year relationship with Ansreen.
Mahek, however, had already contacted people she knew and enlisted them to help her silence Saqib, sending a text to her mother saying (via Leicestershire Police): “I’ll get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.”
Footage shown in ITV’s documentary shows Mahek’s initial claim that the pair had driven to Nottingham, however, this was a complete lie.
What had actually happened was that, after meeting Saqib in the car park where he was driven by his 21-year-old friend Hashim Ijazuddin, Mahek, Ansreen, and a group of people had begun chasing Saqib and Hashim.
She had enlisted the help of Raees Jamal, Rekan Karwan, Natasha Akhtar, Ameer Jamal, and Sanaf Gulemmustafa, who began chasing him in cars along with Mahek and Ansreen.
Saqib and Hashim reached speeds of 80mph in their attempts to escape, with cars following them hitting speeds of 100mph on the A46.
The car driven by Raees Jamal and Rekan Karwan collided into the back of their vehicle, causing Saqib and Hashim to hit a tree, dying near instantly.
A 999 call connected police to the incident in which Saqib begged for help before the call was abruptly cut short.
The group were eventually arrested, with Raees and Rekan both also receiving life sentences for two counts of murder.
Gulamustafa and Jamal were both sentenced to 14 years and eight months, while Akhtar was sentenced to 11 years and eight months.
The ITV documentary includes interviews with former friends of Mahek who spoke about her bizarre behaviour, as well as a detective who said that she'd turned the murder trial into ‘the Mahek show’.
An expert speaking in the documentary also shockingly says that, if not for her social media fame, Saqib and Hashim would still be alive today.
They believe that a desire to maintain her fame was a major factor in Mahek constructing the plan to silence Saqib and prevent him outing her mother’s affair.
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral – The Mother and Daughter Killers is available to watch on ITVX now.
Topics: TikTok, Crime, TV and Film, TV, ITV, Documentaries
Michael Slavin