The wife of killer Badshu Miah predicted she would

The wife of killer Badshu Miah predicted she would be murdered on the eve of her death, the court heard.

Miah married his wife Nurjahan in an arranged Islamic ceremony in July 2001.

Mr Donne said the marriage was ‘convenient’ as she needed a husband to provide for her daughter.

‘At first they were outwardly content.

But the marriage became increasingly acrimonious.

‘He would demand that his wife take care of him and suggested she was a bad woman who was sleeping with other men.

‘Nurjahan would not tolerate his habit of leaving home for days before returning.

‘She was also unhappy about his accusations against her, his lack of money and his irregular immigration status.

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On September 4 Miah attacked his wife inflicting cuts on her arms and on her lip.

‘Nurjahan was taken to the Royal London Hospital for treatment.

‘While there, she said to her brother Abdul Murad – with a chilling degree foresight – that man is going to kill me.

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Later Nurjahan told her aunt Monwara Bibi she would stay with her – if she did not have to take Fahmeda to school.

In the meantime, Miah resigned from his job, and stayed with a cousin in Uxbridge.

On his return he began to fight with his wife.

At around 7.

45pm Nurjahan telephoned Mrs Bibi and said she was ‘scared’ and begged her to come over immediately.

Mrs Bibi spoke to Miah on the phone – and he told her ‘his wife was a bad woman who had been with other men.

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‘Mrs Bibi heard Nurjahan in the background saying that she would go to the Mosque and swear on the Koran that it was not true,’ Mr Donne said.

At 8.

15pm neighbour Lorraine Payne, who lived below the couple heard the sound of running backwards and forwards.

‘She then heard a thud, like the sound of someone falling to the floor, from which she assumed somebody had been pinned to the floor,’ Mr Donne continued.

‘In all probability she was hearing the murders taking place.

‘At about 8.

30pm she went upstairs, but heard nothing.

However as she waited in the lift she heard a dry heaving, gagging sound, repeated three times – like someone being sick.

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This was probably the defendant, Mr Donne said.

Mrs Bibi called Nurjahan’s brother Abdulbais, who rushed to the flat.

‘An horrific scene confronted him.

His sister was lying motionless in the hallway,’ Mr Donne said.

‘She had suffered severe injuries and there was a great deal of blood.

‘In one bedroom he saw his brother Kamal Uddin with severe injuries to his neck and head.

‘He was bleeding but not breathing.

‘In the living room he saw his niece, Fahmeda, lying severely injured on the living room floor.

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Neighbours entering the flat saw that Fahmeda was still alive ‘breathing and groaning.

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‘Her brain matter was clearly visible,’ Mr Donne said.

As Abdulbais ran to get help he saw Miah sitting on the eighth floor bleeding from his throat with blood on both hands.

Police found Nurjahan in the hallway in a pool of blood.

Wounds to her upper arms were so deep that the limbs had almost been severed.

She also had cuts on her arms that suggested she had tried to fend off Miah’s stabs.

Miah’s blood sprayed on a mirror suggested that he had examined his wound in the mirror before he fled.

Two 999 calls from the flat were recorded.

‘One clearly has a woman’s voice screaming incoherently for a few seconds,’ Mr Donne said.

‘The other has a high-pitched voice, mainly incoherent, but with the words, (74) Sivill House’ and ‘three murders’.

Nurjahan and Kamal Uddin were pronounced dead on the scene.

The wife had 14 stab injuries – including fatal wounds to the heart, the neck artery and spine.

Kamal Uddin, who had a withered left arm and short left leg, suffered six wounds to his body and four to his head.

‘Death had been caused by a heavy blow to the back of the head by a sharp edged object,’ Mr Donne said.

Fahmeda had two wounds – one to the shoulder and one to the scalp – fracturing her skull.

The machete was found in the sitting room.

Psychiatrists found that Miah was depressed, but did not suffer from any mental illness.

Martin Heslop, QC, defence counsel said his client had ‘no recollection’ of the killings, and cannot explain them either.

‘He is deeply and utterly ashamed.

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Mr Heslop called the defendant’s uncle, Abdul Kalam, who runs the Natraj Indian Restaurant near Taunton, Somerset to give evidence.

Mr Kalam, who has been in the UK since 1972, said he had known Miah since he was a boy.

‘I have seen him grown up.

He was never involved in a fight or any danger.

He worked for me in the restaurant.

‘It was wholly out of my imagination.

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