CRIME HUNTER: Sex, porn, influencers and the TikTok murders

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Ansreen Bukhari was burning with passion as her sexual desire was rekindled.

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The 45-year-old married British mother of two had found new love with Saqib Hussain. He was just 18 when the May-December affair kicked off in a sexual frenzy in a Birmingham hotel.

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Bukhari – still a very attractive woman – later claimed that Hussain lied about his age, telling her he was 27. For three years the pair carried on a torrid affair hooking up for sex in parks and seedy hotels.

What she didn’t know was that her toy boy was filming the sexxx-rated action and compiling a catalogue of the couple’s raunchy hijinks. Bukhari’s husband and influencer daughter were oblivious as her young lover turned her into a sex kitten.

Ansreen Bukhari later claimed she wanted to end their illicit romance but Hussain wouldn’t let her. That’s when their clandestine capers came off the rails and the situation turned “toxic.”

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At the same time, her daughter Mahek Bukhari, 23, was becoming a social media superstar, particularly on video platform TikTok.

“Me and Mum went Manchester the other day, just chilling, loving life, like I said mum’s my best friend, I’m always with her. Always with her!” the “influencer” said in one TikTok video.

In another, the mother chirps: “May [Mahek’s nickname] was like, I’m not doing it, but I made her do it!”

Mahek’s ex-boyfriend Azhar said: “She would take her mum to shisha lounges, she would take her to clubs that they would get promoted for – paid for. They were living the high life, they were literally clubbing 24/7, going everywhere together… She’s trying to act like her daughter. It was really unusual.”

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By late 2021, Ansreen Bukhari was leading three different lives: Dutiful wife and mother, as her daughter’s party playmate and lastly as a teenager’s sex buddy.

Ansreen later said she was becoming “scared” even as she racked up frequent flier points in sexting and offering up raunchy videos to her boyfriend. She claimed Hussain wouldn’t let her call it off and didn’t let her know the racy antics were being filmed.

“He was telling me to do things I didn’t know he was recording,” Ansreen said. “If I didn’t take his video calls he would get angry. I wanted to finish it off quite a few times, but it didn’t work that way. He used to swear at me and it was just not nice – the wording that he used to say.”

In addition, Hussain was flooding her with gifts at the family home in Stoke.

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The fun-loving mom said she was afraid of her boyfriend and the sexual hijinks being exposed.

Finally, in December 2021, she confessed to her daughter and the pair agreed that something needed to be done about the lovesick teen. Hussain had to go.

Cops suspected it was the daughter who put the homicidal plan into action to protect her “influencer” career.

The social media meteor wrote in a missive to her mother: “I’ll get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.”

Mother and daughter arranged for the toy-boy to have an accident. The bait would be $5,000 in cash in return for a Santa’s sleigh of sex videos in his possession. Help was recruited.

Hussain arrived at the designated meet spot, a supermarket parking lot, on Feb. 11, 2021. Pal Hashim Ijazuddin was driving but the pair left within seconds.

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Two cars followed the young men onto the highway hitting speeds of 160 km/h.

Hussain then made a harrowing 911 call.

“I’m being followed by two vehicles and they’re trying to block me in. I can’t get to a police station – I need help right now,” he told the operator. “There’s guys following me. They’ve got balaclavas on. They’re trying to ram me off the road. They’re trying to kill me – I’m going to die.

“They’re hitting into the back of the car very fast. Please, I’m begging you, I’m going to die.”

As the call cuts off, he screams as the car went off the road, slamming into a tree and exploding in flames, killing them both.

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Cops quickly determined the men’s deaths were no accident and they began zeroing in on Ansreen Bukhari after discovering hundreds of messages and assorted raunch-a-ramma on the dead man’s phone.

When detectives busted Mahek Bukhari, she appeared to believe that her exalted (or so she believed) status in the world of social media was like a virtual armour plating.

“I don’t know if I should mention this now, but I’m out there on social media, I’m a social media influencer,” she boasted to wildly unimpressed detectives.

“Mahek was more than happy to tell us about her TikTok and Instagram lifestyles. We didn’t have to ask her those questions,” Det.-Insp. Mark Parish said in the new documentary about the case, TikTok: Murder Gone Viral.

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“Without Mahek’s involvement with TikTok and general social media, I believe that Saqib Hussain would be alive today.”

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In addition, the “influencer” told a pack of lies about the mother and daughter’s whereabouts on the night in question.

It took a jury 28 hours of deliberation to convict the pair. Both were sentenced to life in prison in September 2023 with no chance of parole for 26 years.

Judge Timothy Spencer KC slammed Mahek Bukhari’s “tawdry fame” claiming it made her “utterly self-obsessed, with a wholly unjustified sense of entitlement, and no apparent awareness of the impact you have on others, oblivious to the damage you do.”

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