Overview

• Prosecutors told jurors Masum traced Kulsuma Akter to a women’s refuge in Bradford and ambushed her while she pushed their seven-month-old son in a pram.
• CCTV and witness statements reveal Masum inflicted multiple stab wounds, including one that partly severed Akter’s jugular vein.
• A witness said Masum threw the knife away, dusted his hands and calmly walked off as Akter lay dying.
• Masum has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and possession of a knife but denies murder, with his defence set to argue loss of control and an abnormality of mental function.
• The trial has underscored Akter’s prior reports of threats and controlling behaviour, including attempts by Masum to lure her from the refuge.