A chef who drowned his wife in front of his children and TikTok lover then put her body in a suitcase and dumped it in a river is facing a life sentence.
Aminan Rahman, 47, strangled Suma Begum, 24, with a scarf in her flat in Docklands, east London, on the night of April 29, 2023.
He was video calling his girlfriend Shahin Miah, 24, who lives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), when he assaulted her.
Ms Begum’s lifeless body can be seen in the background as Rahman shouts at Mr Miah: ‘It’s because of you that this happened.’
But she may still be alive when Rahman stuffs her body into a suitcase and throws her body into the River Lea as her young son comes into view.
His body was found 10 days later by a mudlarker after it was found washed up on the banks of the River Thames.
On Wednesday, Rahman was found guilty of murder. He previously admitted to preventing a lawful burial.
The court heard that Ms Begum had married the defendant in an Islamic ceremony arranged over the phone in 2019.
In 2020, she left Bangladesh to live with a restaurant worker in Somerset and have two children.
A year later, Ms. Begum met Mr. Miah through the social media app TikTok, then switched to WhatsApp.
About seven or eight months into the ‘intimate, sexual’ online relationship, Mr Miah found out he was married to Rahman, he said.
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He explained how he told Rahman about the relationship, but the lovers stayed together and Ms Begum remained married.
Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward KC has told the jury: “It is clear that this young woman is no longer happy in her marriage, she is quite open in her relationship with other people, and she has expressed her desire to leave the defendant, who has nothing to do with her. his family was not happy.
‘But whether they are motivated by anger, embarrassment, or pure jealousy, or a more complex mixture of cultural expectations and emotions, may not matter.
‘The prosecution’s case is that on the night of April 29-30, shortly before midnight, Shahin Miah witnessed the murder of Suma Begum by the accused in a recorded video call.
‘What was observed part of the deliberate strangulation of Suma Begum the day before her body was found.’
Mr. Miah cried in court when explaining the video call.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said: ‘He wanted to run and he grabbed her by the throat.’
There are ‘three screams’ before the video freezes and nothing more can be seen after Rahman’s initial lunge.
In the second video call from Rahman that night, the defendant told Mr Miah: ‘Look, I have killed (Ms Begum) and now you are ready.’
Mr Miah told the jury: ‘I saw foam coming out of Suma’s mouth and he showed me the video and he swore at me.’
Ms Ledward said Ms Begum had died when she was put in a suitcase or drowned in water.
Either way, her death was not an accident, after following through on threats to harm her and then kill her and her lover, Ms Ledward said.
He added: “Within a few minutes, he deliberately threw the body in a way that he hoped, of course, his body would be washed into the sea and would not be found, and the fiction that began to be created almost immediately. had only abandoned him and the children after an argument small, will be trusted.’
The court was told that the victim’s two children, aged four months and two years, were in the bedroom where the attack took place.
Giving evidence, Rahman accepted the killing of Ms Begum but claimed he never intended to harm her and had acted to protect the older child.
He claimed that Ms Begum had threatened to kill the two-year-old child and threw the child against the wall.
Prosecutors denied their claims.
Rahman was also accused of assaulting Ms Begum last February.
He made a video showing scratches on his neck and told Mr Miah that the defendant had ‘breathed’ him, saying: ‘He almost killed me on my neck.’
Mr Justice Bennathan remanded Rahman, formerly of Bridgwater in Somerset, in custody to be sentenced on July 31.
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