Husband and family to be sentenced over ‘jinn spirits’ murder
A HUSBAND and his family will today appear in court to be sentenced for the murder of his pregnant young wife at their Birmingham home.
Naila Mumtaz died in hospital on 8 July 2009, after being found collapsed at her home in Craythorne Avenue, Handsworth. Paramedics were called to the address, however the 21-year-old could not be saved and she was pronounced dead a short time later.
Naila, who was six-months pregnant at the time of her death, died as a result of smothering, according to a post mortem examination, and the trial heard that members of her husband’s family had deliberately caused her death.
After a 12-week trial, Naila’s husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and her sister-in-law’s husband were found guilty of her murder, on 6 July 2012.
The court heard how the young woman’s in-laws believed that she had been possessed by Jinn spirits.
Mohammed Tausef Mumtaz, aged 25, Salma Aslam, aged 51, Hammad Hassan, aged 24, and Zia Ul-Haq, aged 51 will all appear before Birmingham Crown Court for sentencing this morning.
