In what Judge William Davis described as “a case of murder for monetary gain with many aggravating factors,” 65-year-old Mohammed Yousaf was killed by his wife’s lover after taking out a life insurance policy worth £244,000.
A report by Manchester Evening News said Yousaf’s new wife, 38-year-old Rukhsana Bibi, and 45-year-old Muhammed Arif conspired to persuade the victim into getting the policy before planning the September 2016 killing – an act which involved a craft knife and happened while Yousaf slept.
“Because you were greedy, you found a vulnerable old man and over many months you planned to take the money that he had readily available and then engineered a position whereby he had life insurance on which you could claim when he died. Die, that is, at your hands,” said Davis, as quoted by the report.
The two – who had denied the murder charge – were unanimously found guilty by a Preston Crown Court jury. Arif was sentenced to 32 years in jail, while Bibi received 28 years.
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