
'Controlling' husband who murdered wife as she pushed their baby in pram in Bradford jailed
Habibur Masum, 26, was last month found guilty of murdering Kulsuma Akter, 27, in a "ferocious" knife attack after tracing her to a refuge she was staying in to escape his "violence, jealousy and controlling behaviour", a court heard.
He was also found guilty of one count of assault, one of making threats to kill and one charge of stalking.
Ms Akter suffered more than 25 knife injuries after Masum found her through her phone location and confronted her in a street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on 6 April last year.
After fleeing the scene, Masum boarded a bus and CCTV footage showed him smiling, prosecutor Steve Wood KC told Bradford Crown Court.
He was arrested after a four-day manhunt, having been found 150 miles away in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where he and Ms Akter lived when they first came to the UK from Bangladesh.
He had already pleaded guilty to manslaughter and possession of a knife but denied murder, claiming he had intended to kill himself in front of his wife but "totally lost control".
In a victim impact statement read to the court on Tuesday, Ms Akter's brother Imran Hussain said he "cannot comprehend that this has happened" to his "baby sister".
"My parents still struggle with losing their daughter, their youngest daughter, their baby," he added.
"There is now such a deep, painful void in our lives.
"She did not deserve what she experienced at the hands of Masum.
"This for us will be a life sentence."
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