A YouTuber who stabbed his wife to death as she pushed their seven-month-old baby in a pram has been found guilty of murder.
Habibur Masum, 26, repeatedly stabbed Kulsuma Akter, 27, after tracing her to a refuge where she had gone to escape his “violence, jealousy and controlling behaviour”, a court heard. Mrs Akter later died in hospital after suffering more than 25 stab wounds in the attack on a street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on April 6 last year. Masum had earlier sent Ms Akter a Snapchat video of the Bradford Interchange Railway Station with a message saying he had 鈥渃ome to her town鈥.
He then sent her a photo of the refuge with a message saying: 鈥淚 know that you are living in this place. I knew from the first day you moved here. If I had any wish to kill you, I could have from the first day. You do not know what you have lost but one day you will understand. Nobody will love you like I do.鈥
CCTV footage played during a court hearing earlier this month captured the moment Masum walked with Ms Akter until he stopped her, spun her and the pram around and pulled a knife from his jacket. Prosecutor Steven Wood KC said: 鈥淗e grabs Kulsuma and pushes her into a wall, stabbing her to the body. You will see that Kulsuma then goes to the ground only for the defendant to launch a ferocious and deadly attack.
鈥淲hen the defendant had finished stabbing her, as a final act of sheer gratuitous violence, he kicks Kulsuma before moving away, but not before ensuring that he disposed of the knife,鈥 he added.
Masum, originally from the city of Sylhet in eastern Bangladesh, studied for a masters in digital marketing at the University of Bedfordshire, and would share travel vlogs on YouTube documenting his “adventures” and life in the UK.
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