02x06 - Cruel Intentions

[bunniefuu]

Hello, lovelies.

Mahek Bukhari was the epitome
of Gen Z girls.

Her makeup was always perfect.

She was always wearing
fashionable clothing.

TikTok was her main priority,
and she had over

-[fan] Oh, my days!

-Is that MayBVlogs, yeah?
-Yeah, it is.

[fan]
I'm a massive fan, honestly.

[Rachel] But social media is
unpredictable and can go

downhill at any time.

[Mohammed]
If I just close my eyes, I can

just remember it all
over again.

[crying]

[Mohammed]
Even now, if you ask me,
"Does it feel real?"

I'll say to you, "No."

[man] As of right now, no one
really knows what happened.

What do you think?

[Tom] This is a case of love,

obsession,

extortion.

It's literally something out
of a Bollywood movie.

And ultimately,
cold-blooded m*rder.

-[engine revving]
-[tires screeching]

[anonymous]
I knew them secrets way before
anyone else ever did.

[theme music playing]

♪♪

[indistinct chattering]

[cheering]

[Mohammed]
Hashim United was created
in 2018.

It was just loads of lads
coming together,

playing football.

Hashim was the manager,
I was the chairman of the club.

It started off as a joke,
and then they made it serious.

They actually entered a league.

[Mohammed]
We created an Instagram account.

We started playing games,
putting the scores

on social media,
giving trophies out.

They made it out like
it's some big league.

They were cutting out
their faces and putting them on

professional footballers.

And I just thought
it was hilarious.

[Mohammed]
We've got quite a wide
following on it.

The group of lads decided

that we're gonna call it
Hashim United

because Hashim was
like the glue

for all of us
coming together.

[Zain] He's always been cheeky,
always smiling.

You can just tell there's
something special about him.

[Mohammed]
Even if you haven't met him
and you heard his laugh,

you can just tell what type of
person he was.

He just had
an electrifying laugh.

Like, you can just --
you can feel it.

[Zain]
Hashim's my younger brother.

He's three years younger
than me.

I don't think you can get
closer than we were.

[Mohammed] Hashim and me,
we were cousins

but we always called
each other brothers.

So we've basically all grown
up as siblings.

[Mohammed]
My father and Hashim's father
owned a kebab shop in Banbury.

When I left high school,
me and Hashim were working

in there for our fathers.

[Zain] I used to come home on
the weekends from Uni,

take a few orders,
help with a few deliveries.

[Mohammed]
We made some lovely memories
in there,

had some good times.
It was really fun.

[Zain] January time, Hashim sent
me a message.

He said, "See me Sunday,

in my front room.

Talk about growth,
money, and the future."

There was talks of him running
the family business.

That was the long-term plan.
That was the vision.

[crowd chanting]

[Zain] On February 10th,
I had driven down to Anfield

to watch the Liverpool game.

Liverpool was who we follow
as a family.

They're one of the biggest
football clubs in the world.

Hashim put in
our family group,

"Happy Anniversary Mum and Dad."

He remembered, but the rest of
us, we had forgotten.

I was busy
watching the football

and I just didn't reply.

[Mohammed]
That night I was at home
and I remember around 12:30

to 1 AM,

I sent Hashim a message
on Snapchat.

He put "LOL" and he had put some
laughing emojis.

That was the last time
we ever spoke.

[Zain]
I got back from a football game
in the early hours.

Woke up in the morning
and my mum said to me,

"Ring Hashim."

So I rang him a few times

and the phone is just not
going through.

[phone dialing tone]

I said to mum,
"Don't worry about it.

"He's probably gone to
his friend's house

and it's got late and he's
just ended up staying there."

[Mohammed]
It was like a gloomy day.

The sky, the weather,
just everything.

[phone ringing]

My mum called me

and said, "Hashim's in trouble.
Can you come home, please?"

[Zain]
I just drove straight home
and I remember seeing

two police officers.

The police told us they've come
from Leicester

and Hashim's been involved
in a car accident.

You're listening to things,

but your mind's not --
It's not registering.

So I said to my dad,
"What they're saying,

what they're on about?"

He goes, "You're a smart lad.

Be prepared for the worst."

[Mohammed]
I went into the house,

came upstairs to
my uncle's room.

The whole immediate family
was there.

And my uncle said --
[speaking in Arabic]

Which means that --

"He's returned to the Lord."

[crying]

[Mohammed]
It was heart-wrenching.

People crying,
wailing, screaming.

[Zain]
If I just close my eyes, like,

I can just remember it
all over again.

Even now, if you ask me,
"Does it feel real?"

I'll say to you, "No."

[Mohammed]
Later on in that evening,
I searched online the A46,

where the collision had
taken place,

and it said that two people
were pronounced dead.

And that's when I saw
Hashim's friend, Saqib's picture

on social media.

People were saying,
"Rest in peace."

Hashim met Saqib
in elementary school

and that's where they
became friends.

But he didn't go to the same
high school as Hashim.

And we didn't see him for
a good few years.

So it didn't really make sense
because I didn't know they were

that close of friends to be

going to Leicester,
just them two.

So I was a little bit confused.

The following day,
the police told us that

there would be a m*rder inquiry.

When the police said m*rder,

I'm thinking, like,

"It -- it doesn't make sense.

"It doesn't --
it doesn't add up.

Who would wanna hurt him?"

The charming, loving boy that
makes everyone smile and laugh,

why has he been m*rder*d?

Within 24 hours, we were told
that two people had been

arrested in connection to
Hashim and Saqib passing away.

Mahek Bukhari, Ansreen Bukhari,

mother and daughter.

Never seen them, never heard of
them, didn't know them at all.

[Tom]
When I first started looking
into this, all I knew was that

two 21-year-old men had
passed away.

Their car had left the highway,
hit a tree, turned into

a fireball, and very sadly,
the two boys were burnt

to a point where
they were unrecognizable.

Looking into the mother
and daughter

who'd been arrested,

it was no secret online
that Mahek Bukhari was

a social media influencer.

Because there was a social
media influence involved

in something so horrific,
of course people wanna know

kind of what's going on
behind the scenes.

So I downloaded TikTok to try

and understand who
Mahek Bukhari was,

what kind of videos that
she was posting.

Mahek was known as MayBVlogs.

She had nearly 150,000
followers on TikTok.

-Hello, lovelies!
-Hi!

[Tom] She was doing dances,

makeup tutorials.

It looks so yummy!

[Tom]
And so it was very confusing
as to how somebody who was

so innocent online could be
capable of committing

such a crime that
she was accused of.

Hello, lovelies.

Welcome back to
my YouTube channel, guys.

[Rachel]
May started her YouTube
channel in her late teens.

She posted videos of
her traveling and things that

she was doing with her family.

[Mahek] We're currently in
the Blue Mosque,

and I'm with my dad.

[Rachel]
She was still a very small
YouTuber at the time.

Please like, comment,
and subscribe,

and keep showing love,
because I love you all.

[Rachel]
But people connected with her.

She was trying to
grow her channel,

grow her audience.

And so around 2019, May started
her Instagram page.

What made her unique and what
drew people to her was

a very unique sense of fashion.

She was celebrating
her Asian culture

and her British culture,

and she grew pretty quickly,
gaining 34,000 followers

within the first few months.

[Ayesha]
May's content, it was about
things that she would wear

and the brands that she would
collaborate with.

I'm so obsessed!

Look how beautiful
this case is, guys!

If you are getting into
the influencer industry,

you're willing to take
any opportunity

that comes your way.

Jewels and a mirror,
what more do you want?

It was just an easy and quick
win for her to be able to

promote those
and get paid for it.

[Mahek] I love it!
Girl, you k*lled it!

I can't wait to open
this box as well.

As May's growth got bigger,
naturally, more brands wanted

to reach out to her,

and her platform got bigger.

[anonymous]
All my friends knew about
Mahek Bukhari

on social media.

knew about her.

But did they know the secrets?
No.

I knew them secrets way before
anyone else ever did.

I got to know May when I was

We were the same age.

I was scrolling on Instagram
one day and MayBVlogs.

She just came up randomly.

I thought she was pretty.

Her dress sense was good.

That's what really drew me
into her.

So I just replied back to
one of her stories,

and then it started from there.

There was some back and forth,
and we then ended up

meeting up.

Her personality

and her laugh,
the vibes were matching,

the energy was matching,
and the sparks were flying.

We didn't actually label
each other as

girlfriend-boyfriend,

but I would say that we was
a thing back then.

When I met May,
she was studying fashion

in university, but she was
dedicated to social media.

"How can I get more followers?
How can I get more viewers?

How can I grow within
social media?"

So she got on TikTok.

I only just jumped onto, like,
TikTok and so, I just

vibing on there.
Why not?

Why not just join the hype?

I've joined, it's been three
weeks now and it's honestly

the best thing ever.

[Ayesha]
May actually went to the same
university as me.

She became a popular name
around university.

Everyone followed her.

TikTok was her main priority,
and she was just constant with

the sharing of videos.

[anonymous]
She used to post at least
two times a day,

every single day.

[Ayesha]
By 2021, she had over

[anonymous]
She would be a trend girl.

She would just jump on
the latest trends

with the most views.

[Mahek] We're currently in
McDonald's drive-thru,

and we're gonna try out
the TikTok hack.

[anonymous]
That's probably how
she got a lot of followers.

May started to get recognized
a lot, everywhere she went.

[fan] Oh, my days.
Is that MayBVlogs, yeah?

-Yeah, it is.
-[fan] I'm a massive fan,
honestly.

Oh, my God, no way!
That means a lot.

[anonymous] She even had
fan accounts of her.

[Rachel]
As May became more and more
popular on TikTok,

she started including
her mother Ansreen

in those videos.

[anonymous]
She used to always say,
"Oh, my mom's my best friend.

I take my mom everywhere."

Hot mom check!

[Rachel] They were going out,
they were going clubbing,

partying together.

MayBVlogs and MayCVlogs...

-[indistinct]
-Which one is best?

No, no, no, no.
[indistinct]

[Rachel]
And they were even getting
into clubs for free,

so that they could give that
club social media exposure.

A lot of people thought it was
very endearing that she was

including her mother and that
they appeared to have such

a close relationship.

But social media is
unpredictable and can go

downhill at any time.

As May started to gain
more followers,

she was getting some
negative backlash.

She was getting comments
from haters.

Mainly, the hate comments were
towards her mom

and how her mom was dressed.

[Ayesha]
There's always a risk with
what you post online.

As a Muslim growing up,
I've always been taught to

cover myself and be modest.

Seeing May's mother dressed
that way,

a lot of Asian mothers would
never wear something like that.

[anonymous]
It wasn't something that
you would see every day

in the Asian community,
a mother and daughter dressing

in a crop top.

That's something that was
shocking to some people.

Some comments were judgment.
"You should be disgusted."

Some comments were just

straight-up violations
towards her.

May was the one that was
in charge of the account

and had to deal with most of
hate that she received.

[high-pitched voice]
Hola, soy Dora.

Can you show me where I asked
for your opinion?

[Rachel] In this TikTok,
she was addressing the haters

and basically clapping back
and saying she doesn't care.

Nowhere.
Muy bien!

[Ayesha]
I don't think she was afraid
of that hate.

If anything, she did more
because she was getting more

engagement from sharing those
riskier types of videos.

[anonymous]
There was definitely a level
of self-awareness.

She knew what she was doing.

Love is views.

-Hate is also views.
-[voice on audio] Who are you?

Who are we?
We are that b*tch.

[anonymous]
She was just aiming
for the views.

She was speaking to her father
and her mother about dropping

out of university because
she looked at social media

as a career.

They said, "Don't drop out,"
but she did.

[Rachel]
No matter how many followers
you have, putting all your eggs

in that social media basket is
gonna be risky for anybody.

It's taking a really big bet
on yourself.

[anonymous]
When I was with her,
she'd just constantly be on

her phone, constantly ping,
ping, ping, ping, ping --

her phone, just going off.

Comments, comments,
comments, promos,

promos, promos,


To 99% of the people on
social media, she did come

across as a lovely,
genuine person,

which she was at times.
I can't deny that.

But there were times where
she would be extremely toxic.

We had to stay on the phone
together in everyday life,

every minute, every second.

Even if I was to go out with
my friends, I would have to keep

her on the phone in my pocket.

She needed that reassurance
because she didn't trust me.

I'm not sure why.

[voice on audio]
What was the reason?

What was the reason?
What was the reason?

[anonymous]
There used to at least be two,
three arguments a week.

Constant blocking,
unblocking, blocking.

[voice on audio] He blocked me.
What a [bleep] loser.

Literally, what a [bleep] loser.

It just means, when I see him,

I'm going to, like,
spit on him.

[anonymous]
Yeah, that was definitely
about me.

[voice on audio]
Are you crying?

-Don't be sad.
-sh*t, good idea.

Why didn't I think of that?

[anonymous]
Every time she had an issue,
she would resolve it by

going on TikTok.

Her friends were
her social media.

It became very draining.

And it got so bad to a point
where, after a year,

we ended up cutting ties
and we left on bad terms.

Everyone is an angel when
you first meet them.

And then it goes sideways.

[Mohammed]
The memorial for Hashim
and Saqib was on the same day.

and it was a beautiful send-off
for both of the brothers.

It was the biggest funeral
I've ever seen.

I can remember everything.
The funeral,

the flowers.

Life's just turned
upside down.

[Mohammed]
We've been on so many trips
in our life.

That was our last one,

the one I meant the most,

because I wanted him to know
that I'm still there

and just wanted to show him
how much I loved him.

[sighs]

[Tom] Police hadn't yet actually
released a motive

for the crime.

But behind the scenes,
they were very quick

to piece together some of
the movements of that night.

They had CCTV footage that
placed Hashim's car

on the highway at that time.

[Rachel]
It showed that the car being
driven by Hashim and Saqib was

being followed by
two other cars.

While we don't see
the actual crash happening,

we see those two cars getting
very close to them.

Using a license plate reader,
police were able to identify

one of the cars as belonging to

the Bukhari family.

[Tom]
When the police arrived at
the Bukhari household,

May told police that her
and her mum hadn't been

anywhere near Leicester.

[Tom]
She said that they'd been
at a social media event

in Nottingham, a city
many miles away from Leicester.

At this point, police knew
that May was lying.

[Tom]
When May and her mum Ansreen
were brought in for questioning,

at that point,
her narrative changed.

May said that roadworks
on the highway sent them

to Leicester.

And it just so happened that
they were driving down

the highway at the same time.

[Tom]
May said that she'd never seen
the other two cars before.

but the car that Hashim was
driving was driving recklessly.

He was driving at speed.

He was driving in
between lanes.

[Tom] May explained that she saw
the victim's car

leave the highway,
but that she didn't see where

the car went.

[Tom]
Police were able to dispute

May's initial account by
showing her CCTV footage

from earlier that night.

[Rachel]
It appeared that there were
two cars lying in wait

in that parking lot

when the third car,
which was driven

by Hashim and Saqib, pulled up.

It looked like they came in,
saw the other two cars that

were waiting for them,
got spooked and left.

And then these two other cars
followed after them.

[Tom] They asked her to explain
what happened,

and she put her head in
her hands, and she starts to say

that she knew Saqib, that he was
one of her followers,

and that he would not only
stalk her online,

but stalk her in person
as well.

[Rachel] As police continued to
investigate the case,

they found other footage
at 2 AM

the night of the crash showing
a big group of people walking

together on the sidewalk.

And in that footage,
Ansreen and May are with them.

It made police believe that

a lot of people may have been
involved in this crash.

[Mohammed]
Within the next couple of weeks,

more people started
getting arrested.

[reporter]
A further three people are
under suspicion for involvement

in the deaths
of Hashim Ijazuddin,

and Saqib Hussain.

[Tom] Every week there was
a new name

linked to this incident.

Mohammed Patel, Natasha Akhtar,
Raees Jamal, Rekan Karwan,

Sanaf Gulamustafa,
and Ameer Jamal.

[reporter]
Eight people, including TikTok
influencer Mahek Bukhari,

have now been charged
with m*rder.

[Rachel] The story spread
like wildfire.

It came all the way to
the United States.

This famous TikToker was just
arrested for m*rder.

This is MayBVlogs.

[Rachel]
There were tons of TikTokers
and other YouTubers

talking about this.

Mahek actually grew quite
the following on TikTok.

She had over 130,000 followers.

As of right now, no one really
knows what happened or if

these two were truly behind it.
But what do you think?

[Zain] To be honest with you,
nothing really made sense.

Although people have been
arrested for m*rder,

you don't know exactly how
it's got to that.

You don't even understand how
the paths have crossed

'cause I didn't recognize
any of these people.

[Mohammed]
I did try and find out
who they were, what they do,

but there was no link
to Hashim at all.

He didn't know any of 'em.

The only link Hashim had
was his friend, Saqib.

[anonymous]
I was just scrolling on TikTok
and I seen May's face

and her mum's face.

I clicked on the article
and I was thinking,

"No way.

"Murderers.

This can't be true.
This is fake."

I was looking through
the article and I found out

that there was other people.

I was just looking at
the faces, thinking,

"OK, the first person
I don't know,

the second person I don't know."

And then I stopped.

I felt as if this guy's face is
so familiar.

A few months after me and May
ended our friendship,

I was in my house just
playing PlayStation.

-And --
-[loud banging on door]

...all I hear is a loud bang
on my door.

I went to open it, and...

...it was a guy in a hood.

He was telling me,
"Come outside, come outside.

I need to talk to you."

I felt threatened by him.

I said, "Who are you?
Get away from my house."

-I then closed the door.
-[insistent knocking]

He knocks again.

[phone ringing]

And then I get a phone call.

They said, "You don't know
who we are,

you don't know who we are
and what we do."

I looked outside the window,
and there's a group of guys

in the corner.

I was definitely outnumbered.

It's like, "OK, something's
gonna happen to me now."

A hundred percent feel it.

But at that point,

the guys drove off.

As soon as I seen the article,
I felt as if I recognized

the main guy who knocked
my door.

I was trying to find out
who these guys were

from day one.

And it was a complete
shock to me that

they could have been connected
to May all that time.

God knows what her
intentions were,

but it was definitely
bad intentions.

[Tom] Going into the first day
of court,

it seemed very clear to us
that May would be

the central focus to this trial.

In the lead-up to the trial,
there was rumored that

there was some sort of
love interest occurring

between Saqib and Mahek.

And any kind of link
or relationship between her

and Saqib would have been
the reason for

whatever happened.

[Zain] There was definitely
people speculating things

on social media.

Is it true?
Is it untrue?

I don't -- I don't know.

[Mohammed] In the courtroom,
we were sitting in

the public gallery.

The defendants were
laughing, smirking,

not taking nothing seriously.

It didn't look like
it affected them

being where they were,
which was hard.

[Zain] You're like, "You're
on trial for m*rder,

you think you can do that?
No chance."

[Tom] In the opening statement,
prosecution summed this case up

in one sentence, which was,

"A case of love,
obsession, extortion,

and ultimately
cold-blooded m*rder."

This was the first time that
we heard that all of

the rumors about May and Saqib

having a potential relationship
wasn't the case at all.

It was revealed to us that
it was actually

an affair between...

Saqib and May's mom, Ansreen.

[woman]
Some Big new revelations
in the case.

-This is an unbelievable story.
-So this is the mama.

The mama was having an affair.

-Affair.
-Affair with Saqib Hussain.

I thought, "Wow,
that's absolutely disgusting

because she's probably
the same age as his mother."

We wasn't told anything about
any relationship whatsoever by

anybody until the trial.

Like, an absolute shock.

[woman]
It's literally something out
of a Bollywood movie,

and I'm so angry about it all.

When May took to the stand,
she explained that she lied

in a police interview
to protect her mum.

May saying that Saqib was one
of her online stalkers.

There was no evidence
to back that up.

[Mohammed]
She lied through her teeth.

The way she was blaming Saqib
in her interview when they had

told her he had passed away.

That was crazy.

[Tom]
She said that she didn't want
the affair to come out

and that that's why she told
such a web of lies.

[Rachel]
Before the trial started,
police were able to gain access

to Saqib's iCloud account.

And there, they found
multiple messages

between himself and Ansreen.

[Tom]
It helped prosecution prove
that there was a relationship

between the two parties.

They had been having an affair
for the prior three years.

[Tom]
When it began, Saqib would
have just been 18 years old,

and Ansreen would have been
in her early 40s.

The relationship starts to grow

after Saqib followed her
on Instagram.

The two would message
every day, and soon

the two were meeting
in hotel rooms.

He started buying her gifts.

[Rachel]
It seemed like Ansreen was
really appreciating

the attention that she was
getting from Saqib.

[Tom]
In court, it was revealed that
at the end of 2021,

Ansreen wanted to end
the relationship with Saqib.

But Saqib still wanted this
relationship with Ansreen

and was not very accepting
of this breakup.

[Tom] The prosecution showed
messages that were sent

from Saqib to Ansreen.

After the breakup, Ansreen
started to ignore Saqib.

Saqib was just
completely distraught.

He started sending her more
and more messages

and was asking her
to reconsider,

but she continued
to ignore him.

After time went on,
he started to get

more and more obsessive,

which grew into
harassing messages.

Saqib was threatening Ansreen,
saying if she continues to

ignore him, that he's got this
sexually explicit material that

he can share with
Ansreen's husband.

[Rachel]
Saqib said that he had spent
£3,000 on her

all throughout
their relationship,

and if she doesn't want
him to send

those nude photos
to her husband,

then she needs to pay him
that £3,000 back.

Ansreen did tell her daughter
May about the affair with

Saqib, and obviously May was
not happy about the affair,

but she also was not happy

about her mother
being blackmailed.

[Tom]
When May was cross-examined,
her line was very much,

"Saqib was a horrible person,
and he led us to do this."

It was really, really difficult
for the families to hear

the words that were being said
about their son,

who wasn't there to
defend himself.

Yes, Saqib shouldn't have been
blackmailing Ansreen

the way that he was,
but why didn't Ansreen

and May just go to the police?

It became clear from that
they didn't want to get

the police involved because
May and Ansreen had already

seen backlash online for
the kind of stuff

that they were posting.

An affair coming out between,
you know, a married woman

and a much younger man,
really would have just

absolutely ended that
social media career.

May would lose basically
everything she worked for.

So together, they decided to

come up with their own plan
to confront Saqib.

[Rachel]
Saqib thought that he was gonna
get this £3,000 from Ansreen,

as long as she can see him
deleting those photos.

May, in conversation with
Ansreen, said that this is

a tool that we can use now to
meet up with him and force

the phone out of his hand,

so we could delete all of that
incriminating evidence.

It was from there that May
messaged her followers

about the scenario.

We actually learned that
the followers had

recruited their friends as well
into this,

that they had basically
brought on the muscle.

We found out in court Saqib
didn't have anyone else

to give him a lift.

[Zain]
I think Hashim agreed to take
Saqib that night because

he must have felt sorry
for him,

and he must have thought
he's helping him

by taking him to Leicester.

Hashim didn't know
the severity of the situation,

and if he did,
he wouldn't have gone.

[Tom]
Saqib and Hashim were driven
from Banbury to a parking lot

in Leicester.

Saqib believed that they were
going to have this

final meeting, and that was
gonna be that.

In court, we had heard seven
of the defendants speaking

about what happened that night.

[Rachel]
Each and every one of them
gave completely

different stories.

They contradicted each other.

[Tom] It was revealed that
the prosecution actually had

phone records that
showed communication

between the three cars.

This included between
Mahek's vehicle

and the victim's vehicle.

None of the defendants were
happy to speak on that

until the eighth defendant,
Mohammed Patel, took the stand.

[Mohammed]
Mohammed Patel was the only one
that wasn't laughing

in court, whereas the rest
of them were.

So if anyone was gonna
tell the truth,

it was always gonna be him.

[Tom] When cross-examined,
Mohammed Patel says that he was

in the car with May,
Ansreen and Rekan Karwan

whilst the chase was happening.

He says that May was speaking
aggressively on the phone to

Saqib and she even
says the words,

"Watch what I do to you."

It was after that phone call
ended, when Saqib actually

called 999.

It was a very vital piece of
evidence, and we were warned

that it was gonna be
quite distressing to hear.

"My name is Saqib Hussain.

"I'm in the vehicle
with my friend.

"His name is Mohammed Hashim.

"I'm being followed by
two vehicles.

"They're trying to block me in.
They're trying to block me in.

There's guys following me.
They've got balaclavas on."

[Mohammed]
How scared must they have been
in that car?

It's heart-wrenching.

[Tom]
It was at that moment where
records showed a phone call was

then made between May's car
and the other defendant's car.

It was in this call where
Mohammed Patel claims that

the words were said, "Yes,
go on, ram him, ram him."

On the 999 call, Saqib says,

"They're trying to ram us
off the road.

"Please, I'm begging you."

[tires screeching]

"Oh, my God!"

[Zain]
Mohammed Patel was the only
person that spoke out

and told the truth.

The rest of them could have
told the truth,

but they didn't.

It just outlines them for
the scum they are.

[Tom]
This was evidence that there
was intention and proof that

May wasn't necessarily
the sweet girl that you saw

dancing on your screen.

It was a peek into Mahek's
actual personality.

She could be really,
really aggressive and prepared

to go to any lengths to try
and shut him up.

It wasn't an accident.

[voice on audio]
Own your sh*t, b*tch!

It was planned.

m*rder.

Leading up to the verdict,
something that shocked me was

just how arrogant
and how confident

May and Ansreen were.

And there was actually a point
where Ansreen and May were

leaving court and they'd have
to walk in front of

the press bench to get out
of the room.

And May turned to her mum
and she went, "Oh, look at me,

I'm gonna be on
the front pages again."

I just remember turning to
the other people on

the press bench being like,

"This person's been accused
of double m*rder.

There's absolutely
no remorse whatsoever."

She thought that she was
gonna get acquitted,

and if nothing else, this was
only gonna help her

boost her social media career.

Waiting for the verdict,
mentally, that was awful.

But we knew what the truth was,

so we just kept
our faith in God,

and the Lord will
answer our prayers,

and we will get justice.

[woman] In the courtroom,
Mahek and her mom's lies

crumbled and the truth surfaced.

This was a targeted vengeance
k*lling for Saqib threatening

to reveal this affair.

[Tom] When they were reading out
the defendant's names

and their charges,

to hear guilty --

Guilty --

Guilty.

It was like, wow!

[reporter]
Judge Timothy Spencer, KC,
said that Mahek's

influencer fame made her utterly
self-obsessed with no apparent

awareness of the impact she had
on others and oblivious to

the damage that she could do.

[reporter]
Mahek, now 24, was sentenced to
a minimum term of 31 years

and eight months on two counts
of m*rder.

The mother, Ansreen, 46,
was given 29 years

and nine months.

The others involved in
the fatal crash

were given a range of
prison sentences.

[woman] Ansreen and Mahek,
and all those involved,

deserve every single second,

day, year, hour of sentencing.

They deserve it and more.

[Saqib's father]
My family and I would like to
thank Leicestershire Police

greatly for their diligence,
their thoroughness,

and the painstaking hard work
ensuring that those responsible

for Saqib and Hashim's death
could not evade justice.

We hope and have confidence
that Saqib has found

eternal rest with our Lord
and that we'll be able to be

with him again when
we pass away.

We also pray that no family has
ever to ever go through what

we've had to go through.
Thank you.

[Mohammed] We've got justice
to a certain level,

but the worst has happened.

We're not gonna get to see
Hashim again.

Saqib's family are not gonna
get to see him again.

Hashim was an angelic soul,

pretty from outside and even
more prettier from inside.

There's a great imbalance
in my life

and I don't think I'd ever get
that balance ever again.

It's not gonna --
It's impossible.

Holding on to
the pain and agony

is a way of showing Hashim was
here, Hashim existed,

and Hashim is still existing.

His slogan was, "If I make 'em
smile or laugh --

...that's job done for the day."

[Zain] That's massive.

It's about leaving something
good behind, a good legacy.

With social media, there'll be
influencers that benefit you,

and then there'll be
influencers who don't.

The platform's not bad,
it's just what you do witht.

[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
we are live here on

a Sunday afternoon,
Hashim United.

[Mohammed]
All the good that he's left,

we're gonna pick it up
and carry it on.

So we've started doing charity
tournaments in Hashim's name.

[chanting] Oh, Hashim United!

[Mohammed] Definitely proud
to be his brother.

Definitely proud to be a member
of Hashim United.

And I just hope that one day
when we meet again,

he can be proud of everything
that we've done in his name.

[keyboard clicking]

Let's start class!

She believed there was
something after her.

Her magic starts to take
a turn toward the dark side.

That's when the devil gets busy.