Three accomplices of a TikTok influencer and her mother who killed two men in a high-speed car chase have lost their bids to challenge their manslaughter convictions.Saqib Hussain and his friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, were killed in a 100mph car crash orchestrated by Mr Hussain's lover Ansreen Bukhari, 49, her influencer daughter Mahek Bukhari, 26, and five others.Bukhari and Mahek 'lured' the 21-year-old to a meeting point where they hoped to buy his silence for £3,000, which he claimed to have spent on taking her out during their three-year affair.Saqib, who his married lover had dumped, had been allegedly threatening to use sexually explicit material to expose their long-running affair, a trial at Leicester Crown Court heard.After Saqib and Mr Ijazuddin arrived at the meeting point, they realised it was a trap and drove off. They were then pursued in a car chase which ended in them crashing into a tree in a ball of flames on the A46 dual carriageway near Leicester. Moments before his death, Mr Hussain told police in a 999 call that his and Mr Ijazuddin's car was being 'rammed off the road' by assailants, and said: 'I'm begging you, I'm gonna die.'Analysis by forensic collision investigators showed that one of the cars involved in the chase reached speeds of up to 100mph.Rekhan Karwan, Raees Jamal, Ameer Jamal, Sanaf Gulamustafa, and Natasha Akhtar, as well as Bukhari and her daughter, were in one of two vehicles that chased the young men in the car to their deaths.Earlier this month, Ameer Jamal, Gulamustafa and Akhtar launched appeals against their manslaughter convictions to the Court of Appeal in London. Saqib Hussain (pictured), 21, was killed after having an affair with Mahek Bukhari's mother Ansreen Bukhari Mr Hussain's friend, driver Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin (pictured), also 21, was also killed when the pair were forced off the road by Bukhari and her associates(Left to right) Natasha Akhtar, Ameer Jamal and Sanaf Gulamustafa lost their appeal bids against their manslaughter charges today Mahek Bukhari (right) and her mother Ansreen Bukhari arrive at Leicester Crown Court on February 11, 2022Each had confessed to being a passenger in the car but denied being part of a plot to harm Saqib, and did not know their car would ram into the 21-year-old's vehicle, judges were told. Lawyers, representing the three, argued that they were convicted of unlawful act manslaughter, which requires an unlawful action to take place that causes death.They also suggested the trial judge had not identified this 'base' offence in the questions jurors had to consider.However, three judges dismissed their appeals in a ruling on Tuesday.Lord Justice Jeremy Baker, sitting with Mr Justice Bryan and Judge Simon Hirst, said: 'We consider that in the context of this case, where there was no question but that those involved in the plan were intent on inflicting unlawful violence upon Saqib Hussain, these questions appropriately set out the matters which the jury had to consider.'The jury would have been well aware that the common plan which was being referred to was the plan to attack Saqib Hussain when he arrived at Tesco's car park, in order to kill him, or to cause him to suffer either really serious bodily harm, or some lesser degree of harm.'Last year, Ameer Jamal and Gulamustafa were successful in challenging their sentences in the Court of Appeal.Jamal was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison, while Gulamustafa was given a sentence of 12 years and nine months, and Akhtar was handed nine years and eight months in prison. Bukhari and her TikTok influencer daughter Mahek 'lured' the 21-year-old to a meeting point where they hoped to buy his silence for £3,000Fellow defendants Rekhan Karwan (left) and Raees Jamal (right) were found guilty of two counts of murderMahek Bukhari was originally given a life sentence with a minimum term of 31 years and eight months, but the Court of Appeal reduced the minimum term to 26 years and 285 days during the same challenge.During the challenge last October, Christopher Millington KC, for Mahek, said that her age and 'lack of maturity' should have led to a shorter sentence, adding that Saqib had threatened to release sexually explicit material of her mother. Meanwhile, while the CPS acknowledged the blackmail 'undoubtedly existed', they maintained that the sentence was 'tough' but not 'manifestly excessive'. In the ruling, Lord Justice Warby said Mahek's response to the blackmail was 'disproportionate', adding it was 'hard to see any real link between any of Saqib's behaviour and the events on the A46 that led to his death'.He added that 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'.Rekhan Karwan and Raees Jamal were jailed for life with a minimum of 26 years and ten months and 31 years respectively for two counts of murder, while Ansreen Bukhari was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 26 years and nine months.
Accomplices of TikTok influencer who killed men in chase lose appeal
Three accomplices of a TikTok influencer and her mother who killed two men in a high-speed car chase have lost their bids to challenge their manslaughter convictions.






