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| Saima Khan murder: Killer sister having affair with husband | |
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| A woman who murdered her sister while having an affair with her husband has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years. | A woman who murdered her sister while having an affair with her husband has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years. |
| Sabah Khan stabbed her sister Saima Khan, 34, who was at home with her four children, on 23 May last year. | Sabah Khan stabbed her sister Saima Khan, 34, who was at home with her four children, on 23 May last year. |
| Other family members were at a mosque for a funeral, as the defendant left Mrs Khan with 68 different injuries, the Old Bailey heard. | Other family members were at a mosque for a funeral, as the defendant left Mrs Khan with 68 different injuries, the Old Bailey heard. |
| Sabah Khan, 27, of Overstone Road in Luton, was jailed having earlier admitted murder. | Sabah Khan, 27, of Overstone Road in Luton, was jailed having earlier admitted murder. |
| Sentencing, Judge Christopher Moss said she had been in a sexual relationship with her sister's husband Hefeez Rehman for four years and called the killing "astonishingly brutal". | |
| Prosecutor Jane Bickerstaff QC told the court that on the night of the killing, Saima Khan was lured home from work by her sister messaging her to say her baby was crying. | |
| Sabah Khan had turned off the lights in the hallway and carried out a "vicious and sustained" eight-minute attack. | |
| During the ordeal, the victim's eldest daughter called downstairs "auntie are you killing a mouse?". | |
| The prosecution also told the court it was likely some injuries were carried out at or after death. | |
| The court heard Sabah Khan's internet search history included "hiring a hitman for £200" and "16 steps to kill someone and not get caught". | |
| She had also been in touch with a "black magic priest" in Pakistan who she had paid £5,000 to kill her sister "by remote control". | |
| Police said that Sabah Khan had tried to "throw us off the scent from the start" claiming it was a burglary. |