Post by Hickman on Nov 23, 2005 3:23:38 GMT -5
[shadow=red,left,300]Convicted murderer guilty of killing sister's boyfriend[/shadow]
A convicted murder was today found guilty of hacking his sister's boyfriend to death with a sword because he disapproved of her relationship.
Waseem Afsar, 32, along with accomplice Nisar Khan, 31, lay in wait for 21-year-old Ahmed Bashir before attacking him, inflicting 43 wounds. At the time, Afsar was on the run, wanted for a previous murder, which he has since been convicted of.
Mr Bashir was set upon after Afsar became furious that his sister had run away from an arranged marriage she didn't want and had started a relationship with the murder victim.
Today, after over 22 hours, a jury returned a unanimous verdict of murder on both defendants at the Old Bailey. The pair, from Pinner, north London, were also found guilty of the attempted murder of Mr Bashir's friend, Abdul Emrahimkhail. He was also attacked with the swords after he tried to protect his friend, in Hounslow, west London.
The pair are due to be sentenced on Friday.
Afsar himself had been lying low after beating a man to death in 1995 - but returned and vowed to take vengeance on Mr Bashir, warning he would cut both his legs off before launching the gruesome murderous attack in July 1996.
Earlier, the court heard how Afsar's sister Nighat had been forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistan by her parents when she was just a teenager.
But on her return to the UK, she began seeing Mr Bashir, a casual worker from Afghanistan, and when her parents discovered the relationship they took her to task about it.
Meanwhile, Afsar was on the run from police after beating a man to death in 1995 but returned to the family home a week before the murder.
Prosecutor Brian Altman earlier told the court: "Nighat's father and brother began to pressure her into going to Pakistan. Afsar demanded to know what Mr Bashir looked like and she described him. She was scared of her brother and she had cause to be - he had been violent towards he in the past.
"Her father was also angry and upset. Afsar told her she should do as she was told and go to Pakistan. He warned her he was going to find Mr Bashir and cut his legs off so he could never walk again and he threatened to kill her as well."
Nighat was forced to reveal where Mr Bashir lived in Hounslow and the following week Afsar, along with Khan, lay in wait for him.
Mr Altman said: "Mr Bashir and his friend were brutally and savagely attacked in a residential area close to their home in Hounslow. These two defendants were seen to be wielding what one onlooker described as swords which they employed to hack at Mr Bashir after they had pursued him into the front garden of a house.
"For a large part of the attack he was on the ground. They inflicted in excess of 40 serious stab wounds to his body from which he was to die at the scene.
"The focus of these wounds was to his groin."
Describing the motive behind the killing Mr Altman said: "Afsar's family were Muslim and the dead man had been in a relationship with his sister. That relationship between them had involved intimacy that would have been wholly unacceptable to her family."
The murder inquiry was reopened in 2003 after a review.
Afsar had killed before Mr Bashir's murder, beating a man to death in 1995 after a minor row two weeks earlier and was sentenced to life imprisonment - a sentence he is still serving.
Mr Altman said: "The facts of that 1995 murder are remarkably similar to the present case - driving to the victim's home late at night, lying in wait for them and ambushing them armed with a weapon or weapons."
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A convicted murder was today found guilty of hacking his sister's boyfriend to death with a sword because he disapproved of her relationship.
Waseem Afsar, 32, along with accomplice Nisar Khan, 31, lay in wait for 21-year-old Ahmed Bashir before attacking him, inflicting 43 wounds. At the time, Afsar was on the run, wanted for a previous murder, which he has since been convicted of.
Mr Bashir was set upon after Afsar became furious that his sister had run away from an arranged marriage she didn't want and had started a relationship with the murder victim.
Today, after over 22 hours, a jury returned a unanimous verdict of murder on both defendants at the Old Bailey. The pair, from Pinner, north London, were also found guilty of the attempted murder of Mr Bashir's friend, Abdul Emrahimkhail. He was also attacked with the swords after he tried to protect his friend, in Hounslow, west London.
The pair are due to be sentenced on Friday.
Afsar himself had been lying low after beating a man to death in 1995 - but returned and vowed to take vengeance on Mr Bashir, warning he would cut both his legs off before launching the gruesome murderous attack in July 1996.
Earlier, the court heard how Afsar's sister Nighat had been forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistan by her parents when she was just a teenager.
But on her return to the UK, she began seeing Mr Bashir, a casual worker from Afghanistan, and when her parents discovered the relationship they took her to task about it.
Meanwhile, Afsar was on the run from police after beating a man to death in 1995 but returned to the family home a week before the murder.
Prosecutor Brian Altman earlier told the court: "Nighat's father and brother began to pressure her into going to Pakistan. Afsar demanded to know what Mr Bashir looked like and she described him. She was scared of her brother and she had cause to be - he had been violent towards he in the past.
"Her father was also angry and upset. Afsar told her she should do as she was told and go to Pakistan. He warned her he was going to find Mr Bashir and cut his legs off so he could never walk again and he threatened to kill her as well."
Nighat was forced to reveal where Mr Bashir lived in Hounslow and the following week Afsar, along with Khan, lay in wait for him.
Mr Altman said: "Mr Bashir and his friend were brutally and savagely attacked in a residential area close to their home in Hounslow. These two defendants were seen to be wielding what one onlooker described as swords which they employed to hack at Mr Bashir after they had pursued him into the front garden of a house.
"For a large part of the attack he was on the ground. They inflicted in excess of 40 serious stab wounds to his body from which he was to die at the scene.
"The focus of these wounds was to his groin."
Describing the motive behind the killing Mr Altman said: "Afsar's family were Muslim and the dead man had been in a relationship with his sister. That relationship between them had involved intimacy that would have been wholly unacceptable to her family."
The murder inquiry was reopened in 2003 after a review.
Afsar had killed before Mr Bashir's murder, beating a man to death in 1995 after a minor row two weeks earlier and was sentenced to life imprisonment - a sentence he is still serving.
Mr Altman said: "The facts of that 1995 murder are remarkably similar to the present case - driving to the victim's home late at night, lying in wait for them and ambushing them armed with a weapon or weapons."
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www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=WU2219945O&news_headline=convicted_murderer_guilty_of_killing_sisters_boyfriend