British woman accused of killing her husband with the help of her lover

Thursday 28th April 2022 02:51 EDT
 

A British woman Yasneer Kausar, 65, has been held in prison in Pakistan after being accused of having a lover murder her 65-year-old husband, Mohammad Farooq, in exchange for a chance to live in the UK.

She has been accused of his death by strangling by two younger men, one of which was her lover, at the family's Pakistan home in a town near Rawalpindi in Punjab.

After the death of the husband's younger brother, the couple, which hold both British and Pakistani passports, reportedly travelled to Pakistan.

They have a sprawling £1.5million home in Leeds, West Yorks, while the late husband is the director of a British property firm.

On April 1, Mr Farooq’s body was found in a burnt down car in a rubbish dump in Morgah, near Islamabad.

Police arrested Mrs Kausar earlier this month and charged her with hiring two men to kill her husband.

She is currently being held in prison in the country and a court hearing is expected to take place on April 30 where it is thought she will enter a plea.

Meanwhile, Mrs Kausar's son, Sajid Bashir, has launched a petition pleading for his mother's innocence and asking the British government to monitor her welfare in prison.


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