Mum of TikToker has murder sentence appeal rejected

Ansreen was found guilty of murder in August 2023 after standing trial alongside seven other people.

The court was told Hussain had threatened to use sexually explicit material to expose his long-running affair with Ansreen in the months prior to the murder.

Mahek Bukhari - who had nearly 129,000 followers on TikTok, where she posted about fashion and beauty - "set a trap" for Hussain on the night he died.

The court was told Ijazuddin's car split in two and caught fire after hitting a tree at the Six Hills junction on the A46, in the early hours of 11 February 2022.

Following the trial, defendants Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal were also found guilty of murder.

Natasha Akhtar, 23, from Birmingham, Ameer Jamal, 28, and Sanaf Gulamustafa, 23, both from Leicester, were cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter.

Co-accused Mohammed Patel, 21, from Leicester, was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.

In October last year, Mahek - who was 22 at the time of the double murder - had her minimum term life sentence reduced from nearly 32 years to 27 years, after an appeal judge in the High Court said the sentencing judge had not taken her age into account.

The High Court ruled Mahek's "youth and her acknowledged immaturity were given far too little weight", and should have "exerted a substantial downward pressure on the minimum term".