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Ahmad Otak jailed for 34 years for murdering two teenagers | Ahmad Otak jailed for 34 years for murdering two teenagers |
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A man who forced his ex-girlfriend to watch him murder her sister and her friend after she refused to take him back has been jailed for life. | |
Ahmad Otak, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, stabbed 17-year-old Kimberley Frank and Samantha Sykes, 18, in March in West Yorkshire. | Ahmad Otak, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, stabbed 17-year-old Kimberley Frank and Samantha Sykes, 18, in March in West Yorkshire. |
He then abducted his ex partner, 19-year-old Elisa Frank, and drove to Dover in a bid to flee the country. | |
Otak was jailed for a minimum of 34 years at Leeds Crown Court. | |
The 22-year-old, of Linton Road, Wakefield, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder at a hearing in October. | |
Judge Justice Coulson told Otak he "behaved like an animal" and was "incapable of behaving like a human being". | |
He said Otak was a "practised liar" who repaid the generosity the UK had shown to him by murdering two teenage girls with a "significant degree of premeditation". | |
Otak arrived in the UK in 2007 and was granted humanitarian protection to stay in Britain. | |
The court heard he lied about his age to get preferred treatment by social services. | |
'Frenzied attack' | |
The court heard Otak had a turbulent relationship with Ms Frank, who he met in care, and became increasingly possessive, threatening to kill her if she left him. | |
In February, Ms Frank broke off their relationship. | |
A month later, Otak went to Kimberley Frank's flat with a kitchen knife that he bought that day and stabbed her 15 times as her sister was made to watch. | |
Prosecution barrister Richard Mansell QC told the court: "At one point he stood over Kimberley Frank's body, laughed, licked blood from the knife and spat at her body." | |
Otak then tied Ms Frank up and made her ask her friend Miss Sykes to come to the flat. When Miss Sykes arrived, he stabbed her repeatedly. | |
Miss Sykes sustained 32 stab and slash wounds. | |
Otak then abducted Ms Frank and fled to Dover. | |
They met an illegal immigrant, Bahram Bahrami, at the port and hid with him in the back of a wagon. | |
But as Otak's back was turned, Ms Frank told Mr Bahrami she was being held at knifepoint. | |
He wrestled the knife from Otak, fled to nearby houses with Ms Frank and the police were called. | |
Mr Justice Coulson said: "You killed two people in the brutal way that you had planned. | |
"You forced Elisa Frank to take part and then abducted her, and your treatment of her sister's body demonstrates at least a degree of sadism. | |
"You will not even be considered for release until the year 2046." | |
Following the hearing, Det Ch Insp Simon Atkinson, of West Yorkshire Police, said the sentencing would "ensure that a very dangerous man rightly spends a very long time in prison". | |
Care system 'failed' | |
Miss Sykes' mother, Julie Warren-Sykes, said: "Since our beautiful daughter was taken from us our lives have been shattered. | |
"We will never get over the fact we can no longer see or hear her, but she will be eternally loved by all those who were touched by her wonderful spirit." | |
She also criticised Wakefield Children's social care for failing to protect her daughter. | |
"Had the appropriate level of protection and support been in place, we believe that both Kimberley and Samantha might still have been alive today," she said. | |
Wakefield Council said it was carrying out a serious case review. | |
Edwina Harrison, who chairs the Wakefield and District Safeguarding Children Board, said: "The review is taking all the issues being raised in this tragic case very seriously." |