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Friday February 22, 2019
No. 882
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MURDER ACCUSED ‘HEARD OF AFFAIR’ By Staff Reporters
A MAN has gone on trial accused of murdering his brother by stabbing him in the heart outside a house in Batley Carr. Leeds Crown Court heard this week that Ibrahim Mahetar killed his brother Naseer Mahetar after finding out he had sex with his wife Sabrina Mamaniat. The 35-year-old allegedly shouted ‘wife shagger’ at his brother before he killed him outside their parents’ home on Town Street at around 10pm on August 31 last year. Naseer Mahetar, a 31-year-old father-of-two, of Lidgate Gardens, Soothill, was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death was a stab wound to the heart. On day three of the murder trial, Home Office forensic pathologist Dr Michael Parsons told the jury he could not identify which weapon was used to stab him. He said it was more likely that the weapon had a rectangular end, ‘such as a flat-bladed screwdriver or a chisel’. But he couldn’t rule out the possibility that the wound had been caused by a knife. Jurors were told that the brothers’ relationship had become ‘strained’ because father-of-three Ibrahim Mahetar had heard rumours that
Crime scene... Forensic experts sift for clues
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Man stabbed his brother in the heart after finding out he’d had sex with his wife, trial jury told Naseer Mahetar was having an affair with his wife. Six weeks before the killing, the court heard that the defendant, of School Crescent, Dewsbury Moor, had attacked his younger brother with a weapon while they were on a night out in Leeds. The court listened to six recordings that Ibrahim Mahetar had made
less than 48 hours before the killing, while questioning his wife about the alleged affair. He was heard saying the pair had ‘degraded’ him. Mrs Mamaniat allegedly admitted having sex with her brother-in-law, but Naseer Mahetar had previously denied it. The deceased’s widow, Asma Daji,
said the defendant came to the family home the next day and ran at Naseer Mahetar with a baseball bat, saying: “You’re dead.” She said she was hit on the arm with the baseball bat while she tried to protect her husband by stepping between the brothers. The court heard that Naseer Mahetar was stabbed three times in the heart, the back of the head and in the arm. Ibrahim Mahetar then allegedly ran away from the scene and taxi driver Mohammed Mota drove him from nearby Henry Street to Warwick Road. The defendant was arrested at Dewsbury and District Hospital, where he told a doctor that he’d been injured with a weapon. He claimed: “It wasn’t my fault anyway, I got attacked first.” Richard Wright QC, defending, said: “Ibrahim Mahetar’s case is that he acted in lawful self-defence.” Senior forensic scientist Michelle Walton said that the defendant’s blood was found at the scene and on a baseball bat, found in the garden, which belonged to Naseer Mahetar. Ibrahim Mahetar denies murder and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The defence was due to make its case yesterday (Thursday) and the trial is expected to last into next week.
Home Office pathologist unable to identify the weapon used to kill victim
Accused of affair... Naseer Mahetar