A younger sister cut her elder sister's throat in half and severed her hand because she was having an affair with her husband.
Sabah Khan, 27, slaughtered her 34-year-old sister Saima Khan at
their home in Luton because she wanted her brother-in-law Hafeez Rehmen
for herself. Saima, a mother of four, was found in a pool of blood in
the hallway of the property on May 23, 2016.
Sabah pleaded guilty to murder and will be sentenced today at the Old
Bailey. The court heard that Sabah Khan had been in a sexual
relationship with her sister's husband Hafeez and wanted him to herself.
She lay in wait for her sister before butchering her with a kitchen
knife then pulled off her clothing to continue stabbing her as she lay
dead. Sabah is believed to have virtually cut her older sister's neck in
half and sawn her hand off in the savage attack which took place in the
hallway close to the front door.
Two days before the attack, Sabah bought a knife from a Tesco store.
Then on that fateful day, she waited until their family were out of the
house attending a funeral at a local mosque before she
attacked. Saima's four young children were sleeping upstairs as she was
murdered by her younger sister. She suffered 68 knife wounds in the
frenzied attack, with deep wounds to her arms, skull and face. One knife
wound passed through the left side of her neck, severing arteries and
the jugular vein.
Victim
Other members of the family found the mother-of-four lying in a pool
of blood when they returned late at night and called the police
claiming burglars had broken in. Police sent to the scene initially
investigated claims a burglar had broken into the property and carried
out the killing. But eight days after the killing detectives arrested
Sabah after the knife was recovered from a bin bag in her bedroom.
Saima, who was also a care worker, had moved to England from Holland
and lived with her sister, their parents, her children, and her
taxi-driver husband. She was described by neighbours as a "quiet but
friendly lady".
Shortly after her death, her husband Hafeez paid an emotional tribute to her.
He said: "She was a loving mother to four beautiful children, a
devoted wife, a beloved daughter and the most caring of sisters. She has
been taken from us at the age of 34 and my children have been deprived
of their mother.
"This was a junction in our lives where we intended to watch our
children grow, to love them and spend quality time as a family and make
memories. We have been left with a gap in our lives and we can only pray
that she is resting in peace. As everyone can appreciate and understand
that the circumstances have torn our hearts apart."
After the case the senior investigating office, Detective Inspector Adam Gallop described the murder as "a horrific crime."
He added: "This is any family's worst nightmare – it is beyond
comprehension for the family to hear that one daughter has brutally
murdered another. It has been a horrendous ordeal for them and we are
pleased that we have received the guilty plea today. We continue to
support the family, I'm not sure there can ever really be a closure, but
what I do hope is that after sentencing they can hear what happened
that night and start to move forward."
The home, where the sisters lived with their parents, Saima's husband
and their four young children, has now gone on the market for £360,000.
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