Man found guilty of wife’s murder

A person who strangled his spouse for having a web based affair and dumped her physique in a river has been discovered responsible of homicide.

Aminan Rahman, 46, from east London, attacked 24-year-old Suma Begum throughout a video name together with her boyfriend final April, the Previous Bailey heard.

The jury was informed how Rahman put her right into a suitcase after choking her, at which level she would possibly nonetheless have been alive.

Rahman is because of be sentenced on 31 July.

The courtroom heard that Rahman had “most definitely” killed Ms Begum “there after which” at their flat in Tower Hamlets on the evening of 29 April 2023, however had on the very least “incapacitated” her earlier than inserting her physique within the suitcase and dumping it within the River Lea.

“If not already useless by then, she would have inevitably have drowned,” mentioned prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward.

The suitcase was discovered 10 days later by a member of the general public washed up on the riverbank downstream, nonetheless containing the physique of Ms Begum.

Ms Begum had undergone an Islamic marriage over the phone in 2019 when Rahman was in London and she or he was in Bangladesh, the courtroom heard.

They’d first lived in Somerset as husband and spouse, the place Rahman labored as a chef, earlier than shifting to east London in April 2023 the place they stayed at a flat within the Docklands with their two youngsters.

Ms Begum had began an “intimate” on-line relationship with a person her personal age, Shanin Miah, who was residing within the United Arab Emirates, they usually “hoped in the end to be collectively”, mentioned Ms Ledward.

On the evening of Ms Begum’s homicide, her neighbours heard youngsters screaming and a loud bang towards the wall.

That very same evening, the jury heard, Mr Miah obtained a WhatsApp video name from Rahman.

When he gave proof through the one-month trial, Mr Miah sobbed as he informed jurors how Rahman had threatened to kill Ms Begum, who was within the background of the decision.

“She needed to run away after which he grabbed her by the throat,” he mentioned.

The courtroom heard how Mr Miah obtained one other name later that evening during which Rahman informed him: “Look, I’ve killed [her] and now you prepare.”

Mr Miah informed the Previous Bailey: “I noticed that frothing was popping out of Suma’s mouth and he confirmed me on the video and he was swearing at me.”

The jury was proven CCTV of Rahman leaving the flat he shared together with his spouse shortly afterwards, carrying one in every of their youngsters and pulling a big black suitcase.

Additional footage was performed of Rahman lifting the suitcase on to a metallic barrier and pushing it into the River Lea.

“There is no such thing as a dispute that Suma Begum was in that suitcase – positioned there by the defendant,” mentioned Ms Ledward.

Giving proof in his defence, Rahman claimed that his spouse had demanded cash from him to assist her boyfriend be part of her in England.

He alleged that she had threatened to hit their elder youngster until he gave her £10,000.

Rahman additionally claimed he had then grabbed his spouse across the neck with each palms in an effort to defend the kid, when Ms Begum collapsed to the ground.

He then “panicked” and put her physique right into a suitcase, the courtroom heard.

Rahman pleaded responsible earlier than his trial to a cost of stopping the lawful and respectable burial of her physique.

Following the trial, the Metropolitan Police mentioned the video name made by Rahman was “very important” to securing his conviction.

Det Ch Insp Kelly Allen, the lead investigator within the case, mentioned: “As soon as Aminan Rahman was swiftly recognized because the prime suspect, my workforce of murder detectives analysed tons of of hours of CCTV to hint his actions earlier than and after the homicide.

“We additionally managed to retrieve and obtain the total video name that Rahman made to Suma’s believed boyfriend. This additional proved he killed her in a jealous rage.”

It had been a “difficult case” and the sufferer’s family members “have needed to endure a trial during which they heard graphic particulars of how her physique was hidden by her husband”, she added.