A young woman Celine Dookhran, 20, was raped and murdered by her “obsessed” uncle before her body was padlocked in a deep freezer, a court heard.
Dookhran was
kidnapped along with a second woman by her Uncle, Mujahid Arshid, 33,
and his employee Vincent Tappu, 28, who took them to a six-bedroom house
that Arshid, a builder, had been working at, the Old Bailey heard."
Both women were then raped and their throats cut in what prosecutors described as a “horrific crime” on July 19 last year.
Arshid
considered dissolving the bodies of both ladies in acid or hiding them
in a chest-high freezer he installed two days before, it was claimed.
The second woman managed to survive and raised the alarm from hospital, which lead to the discovery of Miss Dookhran’s body.
Opening
the prosecution case, Crispin Aylett QC warned jurors: “The evidence
that gives rise to those charges is, I am afraid, simply horrific. You
will have to steel yourselves for what is to come.”
Mr
Aylett said Arshid had become “obsessed” with Miss Dookhran but knew
that she was having a sexual relationship with her boyfriend, a Libyan
Muslim.
The
following day, on July 19, Arshid and his accomplice Tappu burst into
Miss Dookhran’s room, stuffed socks into both women’s mouths, which they
also covered with tape. Tied up the women's hands and feet together and
each of them was wrapped in a builder’s dust sheet.”
Arshid
scooped up clothes, underwear and phones to give the “entirely false”
impression Miss Dookhran had run away, it was claimed.
Mr
Aylett said the women were taken from the house wrapped in dust sheets
and put in the boot of the Arshid’s pick up truck. Tappu played no
further part, jurors were told.
The court heard that Arshid had the set of keys to a six-bedroomed detached house between Wimbledon and Kingston where he had been working and took the women there, tying them to pipes in the utility room.
The court heard that Arshid had the set of keys to a six-bedroomed detached house between Wimbledon and Kingston where he had been working and took the women there, tying them to pipes in the utility room.
He
allegedly took the second victim – who cannot be named for legal
reasons – upstairs and raped her, before doing the same thing to his
niece, Miss Dookhran.
Mr Aylett said:
“In the bathroom of that house, he cut Celine’s throat, most likely with the lock knife. “With her mouth still stuffed with a sock, Celine died from the combined effect of the restriction of her airwaves and the blood that she lost.”
The
court heard Arshid then took the second woman, who is also in her 20s,
upstairs and cut her throat, telling her she would be “dead within ten
minutes”.
He
put Celine’s body into the deep freezer and locked it with a padlock
but the second woman survived and was later taken to hospital.
Based on the second woman's information, Arshid was arrested the same night in Folkestone, Kent, where he had fled to.
Arshid
was charged with murder, attempted murder, two counts of kidnap, two
counts of rape, two counts of conspiracy to falsely imprison another,
possessing a firearm with intent – a Taser.
He
however, denied all the charges which included one count of sexual
assault, and one count of assault by penetration, involving the second
woman between November 2008 and November 2010.
His
accomplice, Tappu, of Acton, west London, denied two counts of kidnap,
two counts of conspiracy to falsely imprison another, and one count of
possessing a firearm with intent.
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