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Tanveer Iqbal: Spurned mistress and ex-husband guilty of car boot murder | Tanveer Iqbal: Spurned mistress and ex-husband guilty of car boot murder |
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A spurned mistress has been found guilty of murdering her lover and putting his body in the boot of his car. | A spurned mistress has been found guilty of murdering her lover and putting his body in the boot of his car. |
Zatoon Bibi, 37, enlisted the help of her ex-husband Gul Nawaz, 45, to murder Tanveer Iqbal, a DJ and music producer from Smethwick, in February. | Zatoon Bibi, 37, enlisted the help of her ex-husband Gul Nawaz, 45, to murder Tanveer Iqbal, a DJ and music producer from Smethwick, in February. |
Nawaz and a 16-year-old boy were also convicted of murder at Birmingham Crown Court. | Nawaz and a 16-year-old boy were also convicted of murder at Birmingham Crown Court. |
Mr Iqbal, 33, was found strangled in the boot of his car on 2 February. | Mr Iqbal, 33, was found strangled in the boot of his car on 2 February. |
Bibi plotted revenge after being rejected by Mr Iqbal and his remains were found crammed into a cardboard box, the jury was told. | |
More on this and other Birmingham and Black Country stories | More on this and other Birmingham and Black Country stories |
The three are due to be sentenced at the same court later. | |
Mr Iqbal and Bibi had an "unconventional and complicated relationship" which their spouses were "fully aware" of, the court heard. | |
During her relationship with the DJ, she had met his wife and chatted as "sisters" by text, the jury heard. | |
However, in August last year Mr Iqbal banned the pair from contacting one another and was angry after discovering in January they had continued to talk in secret. | |
QC Sally Howes said: "It is clear that in the period leading up to January 31, Zatoon Bibi is stirring up trouble between Mr Iqbal and his wife Nasreen Bibi." | |
Bibi sent a video to Mrs Iqbal of a sexual nature involving Mr Iqbal, which led to him ending their affair, Ms Howes said. | |
He was killed after Bibi lured her former lover to her home in Bridgeburn Road, Birmingham, on 31 January, claiming she had birthday cake for him. | |
CCTV and mobile phone analysis linked Bibi and Nawaz to the killing, and subsequent efforts to move and abandon the victim's remains. |