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00:10I'm David Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, and for over 30 years I've
00:17investigated the phenomenon of murder and what it is that might motivate someone to kill.
00:27Every murder case is different, but time and again a deadly pattern emerges of warning signs
00:35and red flags. In this new series, I investigate some of the UK's most harrowing murder cases
00:46to understand how and why these terrible crimes occur.
00:55This is Murder UK.
01:15Nowajid and Faria Khan were married in a family arrangement in Pakistan in 1999. Faria had spent
01:24her life until then living the typical teenage life of a girl from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
01:36At 19, to have a marriage arranged for you, and then to travel over to Pakistan to meet
01:43your husband for the first time on your wedding day, that's a huge culture shock.
01:48Well, this girl from South Yorkshire was taken from one environment, one culture, and put
01:54into a completely different culture, and one which, unlike the United Kingdom, is not overly
02:00accepting of people who deviate from that culture.
02:03The odds are really against her. This is a girl who's grown up in the UK. She's seen the
02:08way that people have choices. The idea of being put in a position without power, that's automatically
02:15going to cause her deep distress.
02:18Her husband, Nawajid, would have experienced his own difficulties with the sudden culture
02:24clash, too.
02:25This was a very quiet guy. She was very westernised, and they clearly must have clashed because,
02:31you know, she was totally different to his culture, and his culture was totally different
02:35to her culture, really.
02:38Just months after the wedding, in the year 2000, the couple relocated to England.
02:45He came over from a rural part of Pakistan, and he was sort of thrust into this western
02:50world, really, with a really westernised wife, and I think the two just clearly never got
02:56on from day one.
02:57You know, we often focus on the emotional and social difficulties that people moving
03:05from very open cultures to closed cultures, the kind of trauma that might cause, but we
03:11don't so often think about the other direction. You know, the trauma faced by people who are
03:17moving from very conservative cultures to ones which are really open. And the difficulties
03:24for him must have been extreme. He would lose a great deal of his self-identity, especially
03:32in relation to performance of masculinity, the traditional role of family, and how a man
03:38might play that role within Pakistani culture.
03:42The cultural differences manifested in practical ways. Although Faria had been willing to wear
03:49the burqa in Pakistan, on returning to Sheffield, she now refused.
03:55She wanted more of a western lifestyle. She didn't want to be caught in the usual constraints
04:02of a traditional marriage. She didn't want to wear a burqa. She wanted a bit more freedom.
04:11Nawajid was likely surprised by his wife's cultural tastes, which included a liking for the little-known
04:19rap group, Dem Boys. This cultural difference seemed to be a source of tension. Faria objected
04:29to Nawajid's behaviour, claiming he demanded she conform to his traditional values, even though
04:36they lived in England. We are told by her that he became extremely Islamically fundamental, in the sense that
04:48she had to wear a burqa. She could not mix with her own family. She had to obey what her
04:54husband said.
04:55Most, the vast majority of Muslim women would wear a hijab, which means covering your hair. And a lot, many,
05:04many thousands
05:04now, would not wear either. So, you know, it's a very diverse faith, and people wear what they want to
05:12wear.
05:12There's no strict rule anymore. People do what they feel comfortable.
05:17But was the claim that Nawajid ordered her to wear full Islamic dress entirely true?
05:24We have to say that there's a possibility that that's right. What would be wrong would be to just accept
05:29that
05:29on face value. I don't think Khan was the innocent that she would have us believe.
05:35It may well be that we could call her an unreliable narrator, can't we?
05:41Eventually, a jury would be tasked with distinguishing truth from fiction in the life
05:47Faria Khan claimed to have led, and the true nature of her relationship with Nawajid.
05:54She always maintained she was controlled by a traditionalist Muslim, yet investigators failed
06:02to recognise that description of Nawajid.
06:09Everybody was spoke to, probably from where it worked, or anybody that really knew him.
06:13He didn't really know how many people. He was a bit of a quiet guy, really.
06:16He came over from a rural part of Pakistan, and he was sort of thrust into this Western world, really,
06:22with a really Westernised wife, and I think the two just clearly never got on from day one.
06:28You know, this was a very quiet guy, she was very Westernised,
06:31and they clearly must have clashed because, you know, she was totally different to his culture,
06:36and his culture was totally different to her culture, really.
06:39Faria claimed Nawajid used violence to enforce his strict views.
06:45Faria tells people that she's beaten by Nawajid, and she's beaten from the early days.
06:51While investigating detectives found no evidence that she had been physically assaulted,
06:57they did hear consistent accounts of Faria's unhappiness.
07:03Did they have an ideal relationship?
07:05Possibly not, no.
07:07The cynic of me thinks, did she make things up to make it worse?
07:11I think she did.
07:13The couple settled in Darnall, on the south side of Sheffield.
07:18Nawajid found work as a chef at the Mangler restaurant on Spittle Hill.
07:23He was working every hour that there was available, that work was available.
07:28He came across, you know, I think everybody spoke to us, said he was a nice guy.
07:32He was a guy that worked in a restaurant to try and make ends meet.
07:35He was a worker, and I think all around a nice chap, really.
07:40I was very interested in the fact that Nawajid was a chef,
07:46and he took all the hours in the restaurant that was given to him.
07:52And that's, of course, him painting a very traditional picture
07:55of the performance of masculinity within a conservative culture.
07:59He is a provider for his family.
08:03It's also interesting to note that his work colleagues
08:06described him as a nice bloke, a good guy.
08:10But one does get the sense that working all the hours that he could
08:15told us something about the stresses that he must have been in at home.
08:21A domestic setting was not a place where he found any comfort.
08:25Work seemed to provide that role for him.
08:34The next few years brought two children and a job change for Nawajid,
08:40who began working at Milan's takeaway.
08:43However, behind closed doors,
08:45the underlying tension and conflict persisted.
08:52What Faria tells us is that as well as doing that,
08:56he became a monster.
08:58Effectively, she claims that he was making her live a Pakistani life in South Yorkshire.
09:05By 2007, the clash of cultures had forced their marriage to a crisis point.
09:12She was very westernised, into sort of rap bands, and she'd got different friends.
09:16Again, we're all westernised people of her age.
09:19When you add cultural stereotypes and societal stereotypes of what women should be in these roles,
09:26that creates a really unhealthy relationship.
09:29And it's more than possible that Nawajid was quite violent, controlling, abusive.
09:41And it's more than possible that she was telling the truth about that.
09:49Not everyone accepted Faria's portrayal of the marriage,
09:54including Sheffield detective Steve Whittaker.
09:58Actually, there was no idea who was coming to work complaining of being assaulted by her.
10:01He was coming to work with injuries. He was coming to work with black eyes.
10:04He was coming to work with scratches on his face.
10:06And he was saying it was her that was attacking him.
10:11And it was her that was the abuser.
10:13And it was her that was causing problems.
10:15Faria Khan had painted a picture of a violent, abusive husband.
10:20Yet investigators found no evidence to support her claims.
10:25I would describe as not a nice person, really.
10:27The interviews that we had with her and throughout the court process,
10:30she wasn't a nice individual.
10:32She was a bit of a manipulative person, really.
10:35That was my thought throughout, really.
10:37This was a kind, nice guy.
10:39This was a really nice guy who, unfortunately, married the devil.
10:53In 2007, Faria Khan was confiding in friends that she was a victim of coercive control,
11:01which included being forced to wear clothing she felt was alien to her identity.
11:10She further claimed she was being subjected to violence at Nawajad's hands.
11:16It obviously got to the stage where she was very unhappy and may have been being assaulted
11:23because she went and got a restraining order against him.
11:27And it was awarded. She was given a restraining order.
11:30It's really difficult for us to speculate what exactly was going on in this marriage in terms of domestic abuse.
11:37While specific facts were elusive, a court did rule in Faria's favour.
11:43I think she'd got a fraught relationship with Nawajad.
11:46And, you know, that could have manifested itself into a non-molestation order.
11:51I accept that.
11:53Non-molestation orders, restraining orders, are important court documents, legal documents,
11:59which on the balance of probabilities says that we believe this person as opposed to that person.
12:06And I think for Faria, it must have given her some sense that she is being believed.
12:12And by being believed, it would have encouraged her and propelled her further along the course of action
12:19that she chose to take because she would be seen legally as the victim
12:24and she would have been seen socially within the culture in which she was living as the victim.
12:31As a result of the court order, Nawajad was forced to move out of the family home.
12:40Nawajad and Khan are both complex characters.
12:43I think it was a bad pairing.
12:46They didn't get on together.
12:48Perhaps he was violent.
12:51She certainly got that restraining order against him.
12:54But I don't think it was a case of one's really good and one's really bad.
12:59This is a complex situation.
13:03Faria even claimed Nawajad intended to burn down their house.
13:09However, investigators later found no evidence of the physical or verbal abuse she had alleged.
13:17She lied that much.
13:19You didn't really know what was the truth and what wasn't.
13:22Regardless of the truth, nine years into the marriage, Faria wanted out.
13:28By 2008, Faria has decided that this marriage has to end.
13:34In January that year, Faria filed for divorce.
13:38But a legal separation alone was seemingly insufficient for her.
13:45Less than two weeks after filing for divorce, Faria confided in a teenage friend.
13:52She'd met a girl called Cowzer, Nailene Cowzer.
13:56She was a bit of a nobody who fancied herself as somebody.
13:59With the gangster friends and Khan was a friend of hers.
14:03And she's becoming more and more desperate.
14:05She ends up speaking to a friend of hers and tells her that the domestic abuse has been happening,
14:10that she's scared and the fact that she can't help but wish that he wasn't in her life anymore.
14:14This conversation grew and quite quickly became quite dangerous.
14:23Khan starts to plan that she's going to kill Nawajid.
14:30And she's going to kill with the help of this friend and her friends.
14:40Cowzer soon introduced Faria to her boyfriend, Brian Urachi, a member of the local rap group.
14:47And these all thought there was something that really weren't really.
14:50These were people that went out partying and drinking and they met a band called Den Boys.
14:57This group of young men seemed to live in a bit of a fantasy land.
15:02They were quite popular at the time on YouTube and on MySpace and those things.
15:07But they never achieved any real notoriety outside of this case.
15:14There's a big difference between the American gang culture and the British rap gang culture.
15:19Acting as if they were something from Los Angeles and Compton and all that sort of business when in fact
15:24they're from Rotherham.
15:25American gang culture has firearms and access to firearms and is well known for using firearms regularly and for hurting
15:34and harming people.
15:35British gang culture is not the same thing.
15:39When you begin to analyze groups like Den Boys, you begin to see this fantasy persona that they're trying to
15:47make real.
15:48These are not organized criminals. These are not hardened gangsters.
15:53But they've adopted the persona of being a gangster from things they've watched in the media, listened to in music.
16:02And of course, Faria offering them money to take a hit out on her husband gives them an opportunity to
16:09live their image, to live the idea of who they would like to be.
16:14Despite the Dem Boys delusions of violent grandeur, Naline Kauza, Faria Khan's new friend, suggested the rappers could help.
16:26When Khan and her friend get together and they start talking about what ostensibly was probably about freeing Khan from
16:36this terrible situation that she was in with Nalajid, it escalated a bit too quickly.
16:43She clearly found friendship amongst this group of men who were themselves somewhat deluded in thinking that they were more
16:52violent than they actually were.
16:54Khan might have exaggerated her living conditions, the way her marriage was, and the things that were going on, to
17:04gain that sympathy and that buy-in.
17:07She clearly built a strong enough relationship with these men to be able to, in her view, trust them.
17:13Faria offered to pay them for the services she required to kill Nalajid.
17:19A ridiculous small sum of money. I mean, I've dealt with hit men who've been paid tens of thousands of
17:24pounds to carry out the act. These guys were happy to do it for 200 quid.
17:27It's interesting that they were only offered 200 pounds. Now that's an incredibly small amount of money to take another
17:36person's life.
17:37And if you think about it, it's not 200 pounds that each of them was going to be given. It
17:43would be 50 pounds each.
17:45So the money is irrelevant. The money is secondary to the fact that they can appear to live the life
17:52that they want to live, which is of being a gangster.
17:57But why wouldn't Faria Khan simply wait for the divorce to be finalised?
18:03The question has to be asked, doesn't it? Why would somebody go to those extremes? Why would she not just
18:07leave him?
18:09Yes, there's stigma in communities and in society around divorce. However, an Islamic marriage allows you to get divorced from
18:18your husband, as does the UK law.
18:20And so divorce was certainly an option for her, which would have given her that final separation from her former
18:28partner.
18:29But Faria clearly wanted more than just separation.
18:34Faria arranged to have their home transferred into her brother's name. Under Islamic law, it's not cut and dried that
18:44a widow inherits everything that her late husband leaves to her.
18:49However, if the property is transferred into another man's name, and then that man is to transfer it back after
18:56the death of the husband, well, of course, then she will get it sold.
18:58She clearly felt that she needed or deserved more than she would get if she was divorced. And so it
19:06was the money issue that drove her.
19:09All homicides are motivated in some way. And I think what we see here are instrumental motivations as opposed to
19:19psychological ones.
19:21Instrumental in this case simply means that Faria wants to be free of her husband.
19:27She wants to inherit any money that would come as a consequence of his death. For her, murder is simply
19:35a transaction.
19:37It's not an emotional release. It doesn't have any psychological undertow.
19:42Although I think, ultimately, we know little about her upbringing and background to really understand who she was as a
19:50person,
19:51as to why this kind of transactional arrangement to kill would have emerged in her.
19:57But here we've got, classically, a transactional homicide which is done for instrumental reasons.
20:04Next, Faria went to great lengths to conceal her identity as she acquired the intended murder weapon, a car.
20:16The car they used was a white frontier that had been actually purchased.
20:21It had been bought a few days before by Karn and her sister.
20:26And they bought it in a false name.
20:28With cash, why would you buy a car like this?
20:32This is not a car that you'd buy to pop to local shops in.
20:35This was a big car when, with all due respect, she was quite a small lady.
20:39That vehicle was bought for one purpose.
20:41It was bought with the intention to kill her husband.
20:45With a 4x4 big enough to accommodate the entire group, Faria took them boys on a reconnaissance trip to rehearse
20:55her husband's murder.
20:57Her intention was, at some stage, to drag him off the street with the help of them boys, the band.
21:03And they were going to kill him, strangling, suffocate him, stab him.
21:13It was Sunday, 27th of January, just after 5pm.
21:18And Nawajid Khan was walking to work with a colleague.
21:22A local football match meant the streets were uncharacteristically crowded for a cold winter's evening.
21:30It's just getting dark and he's walking to work to open at the restaurant that he did most evenings.
21:40It was extra especially busy because on that day, Sheffield United were playing Manchester City in an FA Cup fifth
21:46round match that was being broadcast live on TV.
21:49So it was really, really busy with football fans, two big clubs, 30,000 fans, stadium full.
21:56Then, suddenly and violently, the gang struck.
22:00He is set upon by two members of the rap group.
22:04Rappers really felt like they were being heroes, rescuing Khan from this terrible situation.
22:12And I think that's what got them involved.
22:16They're armed with bats and an axe.
22:18They attack him and he fights back.
22:20He's no shrinking violet, he's not just a victim.
22:23He fights back.
22:23So does his friend.
22:24As the two colleagues defended themselves against the horrific attack, a white Vauxhall Frontera pulled up.
22:33Out jumped two more members of the rap group.
22:36At this stage, it's four on two and the four men are armed.
22:40As well as bats and axes, the rappers were armed with hammers and knives to attack Faria Khan's husband.
22:48This is a really brutal, gruesome attack.
22:52Nawajid tries his best to defend himself, but he's beaten and he is forced into the road.
22:59Bloodied and beaten, Nawajid Khan faced a final horror.
23:04He looked up to see the driver of the large vehicle, his wife and the mother of his two children.
23:14Little did he know that that was going to be the last movements he would ever make.
23:22Despite the brutal attack by four young men, Nawajid managed to break free.
23:30A job ordered by Faria Khan.
23:33She was director of operations and she took it on herself actually.
23:38I must have messed up.
23:39I've employed, I've employed the worst killers in the world.
23:43You pay your money, you take your choice at £50 each.
23:46They hurt him but didn't kill him.
23:49And she decided to finish the job.
23:51They either lost a bottle at the end or they realised actually we're in too deep here.
23:55The white 4x4 suddenly reappeared at high speed.
24:00One witness said she heard a rev of an engine that she'd never heard before.
24:04Again, that sort of makes shiver down your spine.
24:07This car had really revved and really, really driven at him at some speed.
24:13She watches her husband fall into the road in front of her.
24:17As he's getting to his feet, she runs him down.
24:23Witnesses described how the 4x4 mounted the pavement before mowing Nawajid down.
24:30Crucially, the major football match that night proved invaluable to detectives.
24:41They did it in front of quite a lot of fans who were decent people,
24:46who were driving or passengers in cars going to football or walking by,
24:49who were more than happy to assist the police and assist the investigation.
24:53And if I remember, I think 30, 40 witnesses came forward.
24:57She rev the car and the car seemed to go up like that,
25:02goes up in the air and lands.
25:03She then stops the car, puts it in reverse and reverses over her husband.
25:10As she does so, she's described as being a woman possessed
25:13and she's described even worse as chuckling, laughing to herself as she reverses.
25:19Nawajid Khan was crushed to death beneath the wheels of the vehicle.
25:25This had mounted a pavement and it had gone quite fast and hit Nawajid.
25:32Nawajid was killed, unfortunately not instantly, but he was eventually killed by the front wheels of the car, actually on
25:40top of him.
25:44This is not an accident. This is something that she has clearly been planning and is looking forward to finishing
25:52the job.
25:53And of course, it makes a mockery of her previous claims that she had been the victim.
25:59And I think in this action, there are also elements of overkill.
26:03She's making sure the job is done. She's using more violence than is actually necessary to ensure her husband's death.
26:15She's actually trying to annihilate him, to completely obliterate him, which I think reveals the depths of her dislike of
26:24this relationship.
26:26An arranged marriage, which began with the high hopes of two families, ended with a brutal violent death.
26:35Later, investigations suggested Nawajid had been a victim throughout their relationship.
26:46I think men are more afraid of coming forward when they are the victims of abuse because there is a
26:52stereotype that this is only something that happens to women.
26:56Unfortunately, that's not the reality. Men can also be victims of abuse and in this case, sadly, victims of murder.
27:04We have to accept that many victims of domestic abuse will simply never report what's happening to them.
27:14And when we look at men who are the victims of domestic abuse, there are even further pressures on them
27:21not to reveal what's happening inside their home,
27:25partly because it's about the performance of masculinity.
27:28There's a fear that a man can't have been the victim of a woman's violence, and also there's a sense
27:36in which the man will fear that he won't even be believed.
27:41And therefore, for all those different reasons, I don't think Nawajid would have been very comfortable about reporting what was
27:49happening to him.
27:50The driver, described by witnesses as a short Muslim woman, immediately fled into the crowd.
27:58What we caught on CCTV was people running away from the scene.
28:03And we got some grainy footage from a store that was open.
28:07We got somebody full-fitting, vaguely in the description of Faria Khan, seen to be running away.
28:15I think to cover her tracks, she got a taxi away from the scene, then went shopping to a big
28:21shopping complex called Meadow Hall, near to Sheffield.
28:24She thought that the police would probably think this was just a street fight that her husband had got involved
28:31in.
28:32In fact, the police immediately discounted the notion of a random street fight or a tragic road accident.
28:41This wasn't somebody crossing the road and just unfortunately being knocked over. This was sinister, to say the least.
28:48Within hours, a major crime investigation was underway.
28:52I got a phone call on a Sunday evening to tell me that I'd be going to work on a
28:57Monday.
28:58I was a detective sergeant at the time on the major investigation team within South Yorkshire.
29:02And they said that there'd been a road traffic accident, initially it was reported a road traffic accident.
29:09But it looked more sinister than that.
29:11Despite Faria's attempts to disguise the purchase of the 4x4, detectives quickly traced the two women who'd bought it.
29:21We actually found out he was then. We just found out with their phones they used.
29:24And they got select, picked out on what we call an identification crate by the owner of that car.
29:30Inevitably, given the inept way this was carried out, Faria Khan was arrested very quickly.
29:35The police needed to establish proof that Faria was the person driving the car when it struck her husband.
29:43We had to prove quite a lot. We had quite a few officers, I think probably that time, probably 20
29:47or so officers.
29:51Detectives learned of the successful restraining order against her husband, her complaints of violence and the forced conformity.
30:00The apparent murder of Nawajan Khan was proving to be far from a simple case.
30:07Under initial interrogation, Faria was calm and reserved.
30:12She note commented to us throughout all the interviews and then suddenly at the end started to speak.
30:17She proceeded to tell the police a tissue of lies.
30:19So the overwhelming evidence that was built up over a few days against her, you know, she'd only got all
30:24the way out really.
30:25Which was, I'm a victim here. I'm a victim of domestic abuse.
30:30Yeah, I spoke to people. Yeah, I don't like him. Yes, I may have wanted him dead.
30:35But that was just talk and I wasn't even there.
30:40She denied being there.
30:41She claimed that in fact a member of the Iraq crew was driving the car.
30:46How she could know that, one wonders.
30:48It wasn't until we got to try later on that she did change her defence further.
30:53Unfortunately for Faria Khan, she wasn't the only person detectives were questioning.
31:00And among the interviewees was the original go-between, the teenage friend who introduced Faria to the gang.
31:09Neelam Couser was, she was quite forthcoming, but she had to be forthcoming.
31:13This was a girl, she was 17 years of age, never been in trouble with the police before.
31:16And she told us who was in the car.
31:18A little naivety on her part, she told us who was in the car, she told us what people were
31:23doing in that car.
31:24So they were charged quite quickly.
31:28When presented with the overwhelming amount of evidence, and evidence of co-accused, she had no option but to change
31:37her tune at court really.
31:42Khan claimed to everyone that she was the victim of some awful, terrible control, violence and abuse.
31:53Whether that's true or not, well, that's questionable, isn't it? Because we only have her word for it.
31:57She played the victim card, and I'm as convinced as I can be as an officer of 32 years that,
32:03no, she wasn't a victim.
32:05You know, the only victim in this, unfortunately, is no ages.
32:07She may have been subjected to domestic violence and coercive control, but she went further than merely trying to protect
32:19herself.
32:24Though he initially sympathised with Faria's tales of domestic abuse, Nalim Khauza's boyfriend, Brian Urache, delivered a devastating blow at
32:36the trial.
32:36He stated unequivocally that Faria Khan had been driving when the car hit Nawajid.
32:44It was quite clear that it was Faria Khan who was driving the car at the time.
32:50She was the one who drove over her husband. He wasn't the rap band.
32:55Did they realise, flipping heck, we're making a big mistake here?
32:59I still don't know that, really, to be fair.
33:01And she was the one who was like, leave it with me, boys, and I'll do this.
33:05There's a defence that partners can use when one has killed the other, the so-called slow burn mitigation, which
33:14reduces a murder charge to manslaughter.
33:17If one of the partners has suffered from years of abuse and suddenly snaps, they can argue a sort of
33:25self-defence.
33:27This applies mainly to domestic abuse, so a victim who's absolutely terrified of their attacker and dare not try and
33:37defend themselves at the time,
33:39can have this slow burn where they get more and more and more frightened and feel they've got to do
33:45something about it to protect themselves.
33:48With the defence of self-protection on the table, detectives still faced the challenge of proving Faria Khan was guilty
33:58of murder.
33:59For this guy to receive the injuries he got, the way that Nawajid died, was quite clearly, it was a
34:06murder.
34:07But would a jury agree on who the leading mind behind the murder was?
34:12Had a wife truly killed her husband?
34:24At the heart of the prosecution's case against Faria Khan was pre-meditation.
34:31While English law offers the slow burn defence for an abuse victim who retaliates,
34:37that defence is immediately undermined by any evidence of deliberate long-term planning.
34:46This wasn't a spur of the moment, I don't like my husband, I'm just thinking I'm just going to knock
34:50him over and cause him some injuries.
34:52They had planned this for a long, long time and prior to this.
34:58Faria had collected the weapons for the murder, providing clear evidence of pre-meditation.
35:04They bought the axes from a B&Q store again a couple of days before.
35:08They bought the petrol can a couple of days before from the same store.
35:11But they bought these big two brand new orange axes, which again, very sinister for me.
35:18Their intention was to drag him, get him into the car, get him away, chop him up and set him
35:23on fire.
35:23What blew this investigation wide open for us was the mobile phone that was finding the car.
35:29The phone belonged to the go-between Neelam Causer.
35:34It took us to all the text messages, took us to who she'd been contacting, including the band, them boys.
35:41That was a golden nugget.
35:45It caused their downfall really.
35:47We found some quite incriminating text messages when they'd been to his house and saying,
35:52there was a text message that said, he's just put something in the bin outside.
35:56So he was having his house watched, again, which makes it more sinister.
35:59There are also messages between members of the group or a member of the group and Farrier's friend,
36:06in which Farrier's friend is telling them, come on, you've got to charge at least 200.
36:10You've got to charge at least 200. This is a man's life.
36:14If it wasn't so tragic, it'd be laughable to pay somebody 250 or 200 pounds to kill somebody else.
36:22It's beyond tragic, isn't it, really?
36:26The finding of the mobile phone is quite clearly a major breakthrough in the case,
36:31and I think reveals the kind of criminal incompetence of both Farrier and Dem boys.
36:38Because, you know, it reveals that they're not criminal masterminds or organised criminals
36:44in the way that organised criminals would normally behave.
36:47because harvesting the information from the mobile phone reveals all the planning that had taken place.
36:55So often the public thinks of forensics as simply being about DNA,
36:59but there are other kinds of forensic evidence that can be harvested by the police during an investigation,
37:07and increasingly digital forensics would be one of those tools in an investigations toolkit.
37:17From inside the 4x4, police uncovered yet more damning evidence.
37:22In the Frontera was a bandana, which presumably comes from one of the rat crew.
37:27Also in the Frontera was a knife.
37:29But we found the knife in the car.
37:32Let's go back to where she lives and see if there's any knives that match that knife.
37:40The subsequent search of Farrier's home would prove conclusive.
37:44There's a knife block on the side, and the knife block contained five knives,
37:50but there's a hole for the sixth knife.
37:52And this was the same knife that we found in the car.
37:55So again, this was fantastic evidence for us.
37:58Really, really good evidence for us.
38:00And quite damning evidence for Khan.
38:03Finally, as Steve Whittaker revealed to the court,
38:07the 4x4 yielded the most horrific evidence of all.
38:12In the book of the Voxville Frontera was two leather axe head covers.
38:18We initially wondered what these were, and these axe head covers transpired,
38:22that belonged to two axes that were bought in a pike.
38:25Two axes with orange handles that were bought from a B&Q store.
38:29They weren't buying axes to chop some wood up.
38:31They weren't buying axes to chop a Christmas tree down.
38:34They were buying these axes to use in the killing of Khan's husband.
38:40We believe, and I believed, that they were going to grab the wages.
38:47They were going to get into the car, and he was going to meet the end
38:52by being chopped up with the axes and then set on fire.
38:55What we've really got here is a kind of shopping list of intent.
39:00The axes, the petrol can, the purchase of a specialised car,
39:06all of which are going to be used within the hit on Nawajid himself.
39:11And of course, that kind of shopping list is a prima facie case
39:16against the idea that there can be a slow burn defence.
39:21The shopping list reveals the premeditation that went into what's going to happen to Nawajid.
39:28Despite the overwhelming weight of police evidence,
39:33it was Faria's testimony that it was she that was the true victim in the case.
39:40She told the jury at her trial that she was under his control,
39:46that she was required to wear full Islamic dress,
39:52and that that was the reason why she was being abused by him.
39:58We wouldn't be human if we didn't, you know, even as police officers,
40:00have some sympathy for a woman that's been abused and then turns on her abuser.
40:04Of course, there's going to be sympathy. Of course, there's going to be reasons why they do that.
40:08But in this case, my censors and I think the entire team censors were,
40:13well, actually, the victim here is a person who's been murdered.
40:18If she had not attended the scene, if she had not...
40:24...fraudinally got that car, if she had not run him over,
40:32maybe, maybe her story would hold more water.
40:34It would probably be simpler for her to have carried out the act herself and say,
40:38this was the culmination of years of abuse and I just couldn't take it anymore.
40:43Which is one of the reasons why I suspect the jury thought,
40:45well, you didn't do that, you went to this group of rappers and said,
40:49here's 200 quid, you do it for me.
40:51Which somehow suggests somebody much more cold, much more calculated.
40:58She got the murderers to the scene and then she participated in the violence herself.
41:06This isn't just somebody who simply is a really nice person
41:12who just was trying to protect themselves.
41:16She's more dangerous than that.
41:18She concocted this story in order to try and persuade the jury
41:22that she was a victim of domestic abuse.
41:25And it was quite a hard trial, lots of things thrown at us throughout the trial.
41:29I was personally accused of trying to intimidate one of the accused
41:36by lying to her, which was nonsense and the judge saw through that.
41:40It was a story the jury had to consider.
41:45Were the jury going to sympathise with her? I hope not.
41:48Were they going to think, actually, she's a victim and he deserves to die?
41:51I hope not. But you never know until the jury comes by.
41:55The jury returned a guilty verdict, guilty for the murder of her husband.
42:01The killing of Nawajid was brutal and certainly premeditated.
42:07In the eyes of the Lord, did she intend to commit grievous bodily harm
42:11or did she intend to kill him on that day?
42:12And the jury saw through that. So we were quite elated, really.
42:16It was a good day for Nawajid's family and his friends, really,
42:19who were quite upset, obviously, that this was a nice guy
42:23that worked hard for a living and had been killed in such a barbaric way, really.
42:28Faria Khan was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment
42:34with a minimum term of 20 years.
42:37I think the judge sundered quite ideally when he said,
42:39I don't believe the lies that you've peddled throughout this court.
42:42Regardless of Khan's backgrounds and the complexities in her life,
42:46the fact is that Khan committed a murder.
42:49Even though Faria Khan may have been horribly abused by her husband,
42:54even if she felt that she'd been terribly treated,
42:57the idea of meeting Faya with Faya seems completely inappropriate.
43:04Two gang members were also found guilty of Nawajid's murder
43:08and received prison sentences.
43:11Meanwhile, Nileem Khauser, the teenager responsible
43:15for introducing Faria to the killer gang,
43:18was sentenced to 14 years.
43:21She just went along with it, again, to play up to this bit of a silly image
43:26of, look at us, we're going out killing people.
43:29So, again, tragic is not the word, really.
43:32The two remaining rappers from the gang were jailed for conspiracy
43:36to cause grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to kidnap.
43:42These aren't seasoned criminals.
43:44These are young boys trying to be men, really,
43:46and they made every mistake in the book, really.
43:50When sentencing, the judge was very critical of the members of the rap group
43:54for their willingness to get involved in a crime such as this
43:58and for the fact that they seem to be doing so
44:01merely to gain respect within a fantasy world in which they lived.
44:04Anybody who's stupid enough to sign up to murder somebody who they don't really know
44:08and anybody who's stupid enough to want to do it for £50 each
44:11gives you a general idea of...
44:15We're not talking the brains of Britain here.
44:18We're talking silly boys who just decided to get it up to the neck, really.
44:24She paid the money to amateurs to assist and it was the amateurs that, dare I say, let her plan
44:30down, really.
44:32For the investigation team, the verdict had finally delivered justice.
44:39We got a fantastic result for the family and allowing the family to sort of move on.
44:47What makes it more tragic and sinister than this investigation is that they hunted him down
44:52like a set of dogs, like a pack of dogs, really.
44:54The real underlying truth of why Faria Khan killed her husband remains elusive.
45:02It's really difficult to speculate about why Khan actually did what she did.
45:08Ultimately, for me, that's irrelevant.
45:11She committed a crime and the worst of crimes.
45:16She just got desperate that she just wanted her husband for whatever reason
45:19and we still never got to that reason.
45:22Probably just hatred.
45:24Of, I want him out of the way.
45:25To organise your husband's death is terrible,
45:29but that's a different level from being the one who deals the final blow.
45:35And that's what she did.
45:36She wanted to be there to watch him injured, tortured,
45:41and then she wanted to be the one who murdered him.
45:44Go to be there!
45:45Go to be there!
46:04Thank you, Bob.
46:05Thank you very much.
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