TikTok influencer Mehek Bukhari and her mother sentenced to life for accidental murders

TikTok influencer Mehek Bukhari and her mother sentenced to life for accidental murders – BBC News

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A TikTok influencer and her mother have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two men who died when their car left the road.
Mehek Bukhari, 24, will serve a minimum of 31 years and eight months in prison and her mother Ansreen Bukhari, 46, will serve a sentence of 26 years and nine months.
Passing sentence, Judge Timothy Spencer KC said “TikTok and Instagram are at the heart of the case”, calling it a “cold-blooded murder”.
Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21 and from Oxfordshire, were killed in a crash near Leicester in February last year.
Hussain had threatened to expose a long-standing affair between him and Ansreen Bukhari.
Rekan Karwan, 29, and Raees Jamal, 23, who were recruited by the Bukhari and drove the chasing cars, were also jailed for life for murder.
Natasha Akhtar, 23, Ameer Jamal, 28, and Sanaf Gulamustafa, 23, were cleared of murder but found guilty of two counts of manslaughter.