‘I tried to calm her down by putting a facemask over her mouth which ended up suffocating her, so I dumped her body in the bushes’

A killer accused of suffocating a business management student with a covid mask told a court he ‘did not feel good at all’ when he crammed her body into a suitcase. Muhammad Arslan, 27, followed Hina Bashir, 21, to England from their home village in Pakistan after becoming obsessed with her when she was a teenager. Arslan killed Ms Bashir at his home in Ilford, stuffed her body into a suitcase and dumped it bushes near an industrial estate in…