30 July 2024 , 15:59
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A chef who strangled his wife to death in front of their young children and her TikTok lover before stuffing her body inside a suitcase has been jailed for 22 years.
Aminan Rahman, 47, strangled 24-year-old Suma Begum with her scarf at a flat in Docklands, east London, on the night of April 29 last year.
He video called Ms Begum’s boyfriend Shahin Miah, 24, while he attacker her.
As Ms Begum’s body is seen in the background, Rahman tells Mr Miah: ‘Because of you this happened.’
Rahman crammed Ms Begum, who may still have alive at this point, into a suitcase before throwing in into the River Lea as their young son watched on.
Mr Miah sobbed in court as he described the video call.
Speaking through an interpreter, he said: ‘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.
Footage of a recovered suitcase containing the decomposed body of Suma Begum (Picture: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)
Suma Begum, 24 (Picture: Family Handout/PA Wire)
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.’
Her body was found 10 days later by a mudlarker after being found washed up by the side of the Thames.
The pair had married in an arranged Islamic ceremony over the phone in 2019 while Ms Begum lived in Bangladesh.