Surveillance footage showed the moment a murderer uncle dropped the corpse of his victim, covered in a rug, into a shipping container.
Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, killed 20-year-old Somaiya Begum in an attack on her home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on June 25, 2017, before discarding her decomposing body on a waste ground, where it was discovered eleven days later.
Uncle Throws Niece’s Remains in Container
A surveillance video at the crime scene captures Khan pulling up in a silver automobile, parking, and walking to a silver shipping container.
He unlocks it, then disappears from view before returning to the vehicle, driving it to the container, and positioning the trunk adjacent to the door.
Eventually, he is observed driving away from the crime scene. Surveillance footage captures Mohammed Taroos Khan dumping his deceased niece’s body in a shipping container.
The decomposition was so advanced that the coroner was unable to ascertain the cause of death. The judge remarked that a metal spike was inserted in her back and that her body was unceremoniously draped in carpet and “covered with waste material amid trash on derelict land.”
Khan was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years on March 15. The jury heard that Ms. Begum was living with another uncle and her grandmother under a forced marriage protection order when her father, Mohammed Yaseen Khan, attempted to force her to marry a Pakistani relative under the threat of violence.
Eleven days passed before the body of 20-year-old Somaiya Begum was discovered (PA)
During the sentencing hearing, Mr. Justice Garnham remarked that Khan did not share his brother’s perspective “about the role of women or Somaiya’s need to obey her father.
Khan’s motivation is unclear, and the judge declines to guess as to whether the murder was the result of”some abhorrent family arrangement. Similarly, West Yorkshire Police determined that
Khan was the sole individual who would ever know the motives for the murder. On March 15, Mohammed Taroos Khan was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years.
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West Yorkshire Police
Detective Superintendent Marc Bowes of the West Yorkshire Police described the attack as “vicious and persistent.” He stated that Khan’s disposal of her body was despicable.
Somaiya was a clever young woman who pursued a degree, worked a part-time job to make ends meet, and was happy and comfortable.
Detective Superintendent Bowes stated, “She had her entire life ahead of her, but it was cruelly cut short by her uncle, who was intended to love, care for, and protect her.”
Khan went to great measures to conceal his murder; he left her body in a wasteland with full scorn and contempt for human life, believing it would never be discovered.
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