Husband guilty of Murdering Wife while her Lover was on Video Call

Aminan Rahman has been convicted of murdering his wife at their flat in East London.

The 46-year-old strangled Suma Begum, aged 24, on the night of April 29, 2023, while her online boyfriend was on a video call.

The killing was also witnessed by Rahman’s two young children.

Rahman was caught on CCTV dumping the suitcase in the River Lea in east London. It was found washed up 10 days later containing his wife’s decomposed body.

It was heard that Ms Begum’s boyfriend, Shahin Miah, had recorded an online video of the events leading to her death, which was later handed to police.

Mr Miah tearfully described a video call from Rahman in which he threatened to kill Ms Begum, who was on the bed in the background.

Rahman also threatened to kill Mr Miah, who was in the UAE at the time.

Mr Miah told the Old Bailey: “She wanted to run away and he then grabbed her throat.”

There were “three screaming sounds” before the video froze and nothing more could be seen after Rahman’s initial lunge.

In a second video call from Rahman that night, the defendant told Mr Miah:

“Look, I have killed [Ms Begum] and now you get ready.”

In 2019, Ms Begum married Rahman in an arranged ceremony over the phone.

In 2020, she travelled from Bangladesh to live with him and they had two children.

A year later, Begum met Miah via TikTok, later moving on to WhatsApp, and they had an “intimate, sexual” online relationship.

Jocelyn Ledward KC, prosecuting, told jurors it was clear she was “no longer happy in her marriage, she was fairly openly in a relationship with another man, and she had expressed the desire to leave the defendant, something about which neither he nor her family were happy”.

She added: “But whether he was motivated by rage, shame, or pure jealousy, or a more complex mix of cultural expectations and emotions, may not matter.”

Rahman accepted that he killed his wife but claimed he never intended to harm her and had acted in the defence of the older child, whom he claimed Ms Begum had threatened to kill.

However, his claim was rejected.

Rahman had also been accused of attacking Ms Begum in February 2023.

DCI Kelly Allen, of the Metropolitan police, said detectives analysed hundreds of hours of CCTV to trace Rahman’s movements before and after the murder.

She said:

“We also managed to retrieve and download the full video call that Rahman made to Suma’s believed boyfriend.”

“This further proved he killed her in a jealous rage.”

Rahman was found guilty of murder. He previously pleaded guilty to a charge of preventing the lawful and decent burial of her body.

Rahman is due to be sentenced on July 31, 2024.