A wife killer’s chilling message
What husband told dad before murdering wife who defied him
AJEALOUS and controlling husband who stabbed his care assistant wife to death because she worked with men has been jailed for life.
Muslim Imran Khan, 38, claimed it was ‘not halal’ – meaning permissible – and knifed mother-of-three Nasreen eight times at their Stockport home after she refused his demands to quit work.
Even though her carer’s role was limited to helping the elderly and infirm with food and medication, Khan was jealous and angry.
Hours after accusing her of offending Allah, Khan stabbed Nasreen, also 38, eight times in the kitchen of their home on Cheadle Road, Cheadle Hulme.
Her screams were heard by their three children, and his sister’s two children. Nasreen’s son and niece ran from the living room and saw her dying in the kitchen.
Before killing Nasreen, Khan rang his father and told him: “Everyone including my children is against me. I have got no choice – I’m going to kill her and kill myself.”
But, rather than turn the knife on himself in the aftermath, Khan went to a friend’s home in Longsight.
Less than three hours after the killing on April 18 this year, his friend contacted police and told them Khan wanted to hand himself in.
On his way to the police van, Khan said to one officer: “Never get an arranged marriage, bro.”
Khan originally denied murder, claiming the offence was manslaughter. He said he lost control after Nasreen told him she had never loved him, claiming she threatened that her family would ‘chop him into little pieces.’
But on the morning his Manchester Crown Court trial was due to begin, Khan pleaded guilty to murder.
Judge Patrick Field QC ordered him to serve a minimum of 20 years for the offence, which he said would be ‘seared in the minds’ of the three children Nasreen had been devoted to.
Khan’s sentencing heard that he met her in Pakistan in 1998, where her family remains, and that they married in Stockport the year after.
However, their relationship was volatile and worsened when she began working as a carer in December 2015.
Anthony Metzer, defending Khan, said his client described what he had done as ‘a hideous act.’ He added: “He will have to live with what he done to his children and his immediate family, who will be feeling the effects of this for many, many years ahead.”