BREAKING NEWS Wannabe influencer who stabbed wife to death in 'ferocious' knife attack while pushing their baby son's pram is jailed for 28 years

Daily Mail​

5 days ago

A wannabe influencer who slit his wife's throat as she pushed their son's pram has been jailed for 28 years.
Habibur Masum, 27, was found guilty of the murder of Kulsuma Akter in a 'ferocious' knife attack in broad daylight before leaving her bleeding to death and calmly walking away on April 6 last year.
She was stabbed 26 times and stamped on by 'controlling' Masum in a 'brutal and merciless' attack in front of their seven-month-old son.
Jurors at his trial heard Masum followed Ms Akter to a refuge in Bradford where she had been staying to escape him after he held a knife to her throat at their home in Greater Manchester.
After finding her through her phone location, Masum loitered in streets around the hostel and sent her messages threatening to kill her family members if she did not return to him, before trying to lure her out by sending her fake messages from a local GP practice pretending their son had an appointment.
The court heard Ms Akter eventually felt safe enough to leave the refuge after Masum updated his Facebook page falsely claiming to be in Spain.
As she was walking in the city centre with a friend, pushing her baby in a pram, Masum confronted her, the trial heard.
CCTV footage of the attack captured Ms Akter's screams as Masum stabbed her at least 25 times.
Jurors heard he then calmly walked through Bradford city centre and was seen on CCTV grinning as he got on a bus, believing at that point he was getting away.
Habibur Masum, 27, was found guilty of murdering Kulsuma Akter in a 'ferocious' knife attack in broad daylight
The trial heard the relationship between Masum and Ms Akter was 'an abusive relationship characterised by his jealousy, possessiveness and controlling behaviour'.
The couple met and married in Bangladesh, and came to the UK in 2022 after he obtained a student visa and enrolled on a Masters course to study marketing.
They moved into a house in Oldham together in September 2022.
On November 23 2023, he became jealous over a 'completely innocuous' message Ms Akter received from a male colleague and held a knife to her throat.
He was arrested and Ms Akter decided to leave him, being moved to the Bradford refuge by Oldham social services in January 2024.
But Masum continued to pursue her and tracked Ms Akter to the refuge through her phone location, and she had been due to move but went out walking with a friend on the day she died after Masum's brother told her he was in Spain.
Masum also put photos on Facebook claiming he was in Spain in a bid to trick his estranged wife from leaving the refuge.
He then travelled almost 200 miles south to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to carry out the 'merciless' attack in broad daylight.
Masum was arrested in the early hours of April 9 in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he had gone to be treated for 'lockjaw'.