Obsessive man jailed for suffocating student with face mask

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The judge told Arslan: “I am satisfied…that your unrequited feelings for Hina boiled over and resulted in you taking hold of a facemask and forcing it into the back of her mouth which led to her collapse and ultimately to her death from asphyxiation.” He treated her in a heinous and brutal way Bashir Khan, Hina Bashir's father He added that Arslan’s “prime motivation” was to save himself after killing Ms Bashir, embarking on a “campaign of lies” to conceal what he had done “lying to all and sundry” before disposing her body in a “shocking and callous manner”. Judge Marks said it was apparent that Arslan had been “madly in love” and “obsessed” with Ms Bashir, feelings which he added were clearly “not reciprocated”. The judge told Arslan he was “extremely sceptical” of his claim that he had been sent naked photographs of Ms Bashir before he attacked her as “no such photos were ever recovered”. At one point, Arslan declared: “How wonderful it is that I have found my princess in the house right next to mine.” Ms Bashir went on to reject his advances and had a boyfriend in Pakistan and another after moving to the UK in November 2021 to study business management at Coventry University’s London campus, the court heard.