How Tiktok star Mahek Bukhari’s mum Ansreen went from housewife to murderer after ‘grooming’ lover, 21, in secret trysts
TIKTOK star Mahek Bukhari’s mum Ansreen went from being a housewife to a murderer after “grooming” her lover in secret trysts.
Mahek, 24, and Ansreen, 46, were jailed for life after the pair were both found guilty of two counts of murder.
The duo, from Stoke-on-Trent, had found themselves embroiled in a web of lies and deceit after mum Ansreen, who often appeared in her daughter’s TikTok videos, had embarked on an ill-fated affair.
And when Saqib Hussain threatened to expose the relationship to Ansreen’s husband, mother and daughter hatched a murderous plot to silence her young lover.
The 21-year-old was found dead in a burning car, along with his friend Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, also 21, after their car was rammed off the road in a 100mph chase in Leicestershire.
Their bodies were so badly burnt, their families could not identify them.
The case will tonight feature on a new ITV documentary, TikTok: Murder Gone Viral — The Mother & Daughter Killers.
The new three-part series explores crime cases linked to the social media site.
It details how Mahek, who had dropped out of university to pursue her social media career, was living the high life, attending parties and launch events — often with her mother in tow.
Ansreen said in court: “When I got married I was like a housewife, but with this TikTok thing I was going out more.
“It was like two different lives. It was more excitement. We were out and meeting people and stuff.”
She met 18-year-old Saqib through the video call and live-stream platform Azar, with him reportedly telling her he was 27.
During the course of their three-year relationship, they regularly met up for sexual trysts in hotels in Birmingham and London.
He was said to have lavished £3,000 on date nights and gifts, until things turned sour and she tried to break off the relationship in January 2022.
Saqib was then rejected by Ansreen – something he struggled with..
It was reported that he tried to blackmail Ansreen by threatening to send nude pictures of her to her son and husband unless she returned the money he had spent on her.
Ansreen confided in daughter Mahek, who responded to her mother via WhatsApp: “I’ll get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.”
The pair then planned to set a trap which later saw Saqib and his pal Mohammed Hashim killed.
The new ITV documentary will be air tonight at 9pm.