26 years for the scarf strangler

A jealous husband who strangled his estranged wife to death with a scarf after trying to have her exorcised has been jailed for at least 26 years. Mohammed Ali, 32, broke into the former marital home in east London and murdered Nazia Begum after lying in wait for her in a small cupboard. Ali was introduced to Ms Begum through their families and the pair quickly married in May 2015, expecting their first child within a month. But the ‘strict…