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Friday March 1, 2019
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FAMILY’S TORMENT AS KILLER GETS LIFE
We continue to grieve the loss of Naseer, who was a loving son, husband, daddy, brother and friend to many ... a kind, caring, hard-working family man who doted on his family. His young daughters (aged two and eight) miss their daddy terribly every day. There is not a day that passes without us thinking of him and the happier times we had together. Ibrahim Mahetar is responsible for dramatically changing our lives forever. Nothing can ever compensate us or fill the void of our loss. Our sentence is a life sentence without Naseer... – MAHETAR FAMILY STATEMENT
Killer... Ibrahim Mahetar
Victim... Naseer Mahetar
Man who stabbed his brother to death had irrational obsession that his wife was unfaithful, says judge A DEWSBURY man who stabbed his brother to death because he believed he’d slept with his wife has been jailed for over 16 years. Ibrahim Mahetar, 35, was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of murdering his younger brother Naseer Mahetar, 31, in the back yard of their parents’ house on Town Street, Batley Carr, last year. Jurors were told that Ibrahim Mahetar, of School Crescent, Dewsbury Moor, battered his brother with a baseball bat several times during the violent attack on August 31,
before stabbing him three times in the heart, head and arm. Father-of-two Naseer Mahetar, of Lidgate Gardens, Soothill, died from a stab wound to the heart. Although the murder weapon was never recovered, it is believed to have been a tool ‘like a spark plug cleaner’. The victim’s wife, Asma Daji, was holding the couple’s two-year-old daughter on her hip as she tried to defend her husband. Ibrahim Mahetar’s children and the brothers’ mother, Aysha Mahetar,
also witnessed the fatal assault. Leeds Crown Court was told that Ibrahim Mahetar heard of an alleged affair between his wife Sabrina Mamaniat and his brother in April last year. On the day before the murder, Ibrahim Mahetar recorded himself asking his wife about the rumour, and she said that the pair had sex on one occasion. The jury found him guilty of murder by a majority of 10-1 on Tuesday following a seven-day trial. Sentencing the defendant to life
imprisonment with a minimum of 16 years and 188 days, Judge Rodney Jameson QC told him: “All this because of your irrational obsession that your wife was unfaithful.” Richard Wright QC, mitigating, said the defendant’s actions were ‘driven by paranoia’. He said: “It does not justify for a moment the violence that was used but it does explain what happened that night from his perspective. Judge Jameson added: “I do not conclude that you planned to kill him. I am, however, satisfied that you
did intend to kill him when you stabbed him three times.” A family statement following Ibrahim Mahetar’s sentencing read: “As a family we continue to grieve the loss of Naseer, who was a loving son, husband, daddy, brother and friend to many. “Naseer was a kind, caring, hardworking family man who doted on his family. His young daughters (aged two and eight) miss their daddy terribly every day.
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