A music shop owner was lured to his lover’s home in Birmingham where he was strangled and put in the boot of a car, it was claimed.
The body of thirty-three year old Tanveer Iqbal was later found in the abandoned vehicle.
When his wife desperately tried to find him the woman who had allegedly killed him fobbed her off claiming she had not seen him, Birmingham Crown Court was told.
Zatoon Bibi, 37, her husband Gul Nawaz, 44, and a 16-year-old male, who can not be identified, have all denied murder.
Sally Howes QC, prosecuting, said that Mr Iqbal had an “unconventional” domestic relationship and that he had been seeing Bibi for a number of years and had two children by her. She said his wife Nasreen was aware of this.
However there came a point when the “veneer cracked” and Zatoon Bibi began to try and stir up trouble between Mr Iqbal and his wife, on one occasion sending her a video of Mr Iqbal of a sexual nature.
Miss Howes said that on January 31 this year the victim had gone to Bibi’s home for a birthday celebration and he had been strangled there.
She said Bibi had then put Mr Iqbal in the boot of his Renault Clio and driven it to Portland Road, Smethwick.
Police found the vehicle the next day with the victim having been packed in a cardboard box wrapped with gaffer tape and nylon rope.
A post mortem examination revealed he had died from compression to the neck.
