Man killed spouse in stabbing assault as she walked child in Bradford, court docket instructed

A person who killed his estranged spouse in a ferocious assault in Bradford whilst she used to be pushing a pram stabbed her a lot of instances within the head, neck and frame, a court docket has heard.

Habibur Masum, 26, killed Kulsuma Akter after monitoring her right down to a ladies’s shelter the place she used to be residing. She had moved out after struggling threats and assaults from him at their house in Oldham, a jury at Bradford crown court docket used to be instructed.

Masum, who pleaded accountable to manslaughter in a listening to final week however denied a rate of homicide, is accused of stalking, threatening and assaulting Akter over a duration of months, ultimately stabbing her a couple of instances out of doors a store at about 3pm on Saturday 6 April final yr.

Akter, 27, used to be pushing their seven-month-old child in a pram close to the place she had fled “to escape his violence, to escape his jealousy, to escape his controlling behaviour” when she used to be approached by way of Masum, stated the prosecutor Stephen Wood KC.

In CCTV photos performed to jurors, who have been warned of its graphic and distressing nature, Masum might be noticed drawing near and grabbing Akter who used to be wearing a black coat and black hijab.

The photos confirmed Masum brandishing a knife from inside his padded jacket and the usage of it to again and again stab Akter, as an onlooker screamed.

In the video, Akter fell to the bottom and the pram rolled clear of her, whilst Masum stood over her proceeding his assault, because the screaming persisted.

In court docket, Masum, dressed in a blue T-shirt and gray jacket, left the dock as a result of he didn’t need to watch the photos of the stabbing.

Wood stated Masum used to be “rational and calculating” that day, and had were given on a bus and put his telephone on aircraft mode to forestall it being tracked.

A 3-day hunt used to be therefore introduced and Masum used to be arrested out of doors Stoke Mandeville sanatorium in Buckinghamshire, the place he noticed docs for lockjaw.

Jurors have been proven CCTV photos of him throughout the sanatorium, with a modified look after shaving off his beard and purchasing new garments, as a police enchantment performed at the BBC News channel within the sanatorium ready room, within the early hours of 9 April.

The jury used to be instructed how Masum had up to now threatened to kill Akter and her brothers on quite a lot of events.

In an incident in November 2023 whilst she used to be on maternity go away from her task in a bakery, police have been known as after Masum used to be accused of attacking Akter, which the prosecution described as a “chilling prediction of what he was to do in April of the following year”.

The court docket heard how he put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her whilst she used to be keeping their child.

The jury used to be proven a picture of Akter with a bruise beneath her left eye, which he instructed police she had inflicted on herself.

A social employee had organized for Akter to be moved to another shelter, which used to be because of occur two days after she used to be killed.

The jury heard that Masum used to be anticipated to mention he had misplaced regulate however those have been “fake defences” of a person who may now not resist what he had achieved, Wood stated.

Masum denies stalking, attacking and murdering Akter. The trial continues.