YouTuber made creepy baby cot film before killing wife as she pushed son in pram
A wannabe YouTuber who stabbed his wife to death while she pushed their baby son in a pram, made a bizarre video about his son's cot just months earlier.
Habibur Masum attacked Kulsuma Akter after tracking her down after she fled his 'violence, jealousy and controlling behaviour'.
The 27-year-old mum had left to go out with a friend on April 6 last year, believing Masum was in Spain, but he confronted her in the street as she was pushing their seven-month-old.
Prosecutors said Masum, 26, launched a 'ferocious' knife attack leaving her with multiple stab injuries, including one which severed her jugular vein.
One eyewitness described hearing Ms Akter 'screaming in agony and pain'. His trial heard Ms Akter had left him in January 2024 after telling police that Masum had assaulted her.
She told police he had held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her over a 'completely innocuous' message she received from a male colleague at a factory.
In a statement, which was read in court, Ms Akter said: 'I was very frightened when he was holding the knife as I believed what he was telling me and that he might kill me… I do not want to stay with him anymore.'
She told officers her relationship with her husband of 18 months was 'usually good' but that 'recently he has been controlling me… taking my phone off me and not letting me contact anyone'.
Masum, who fancied himself as a content creator, had a YouTube account where he would post videos about his life. In the run up to his son's birth he posted a video of himself building the baby's cot.
In it he speeds up the unboxing of the furniture and can be heard giving a voice over commentary telling his 102 subscribers what he is doing. He can be seen skipping through the written instructions before giving a hands-on demo of how to put it together.
This video was uploaded in October 2023 before he killed in April 2024. Following the attack, the video was swamped with comments pointing out what he had done.
"And then you killed his mother," one person wrote. Another said: "Aww you made your baby a bed and then made sure he had no mother."
Masum also uploade a YouTube short showing him packing a hospital bag in preparation for the birth of the couple's first baby. It included a towel, blanket, tiny baby clothes and nappies.
Masum was sentenced to life behind bars with a judge telling him he will spend a minimum of 28 years in jail.
In a statement following the sentencing Ms Akter remembered the young woman as a "much-loved daughter, sister, aunt and mother".
They said: "Kulsuma's loss has left a gaping hole in the lives of all her family and friends. We have been left with a profound sense of emptiness and a deep and painful void in our lives.
"She was a loving, caring and kind soul with a generous nature and touched the lives of everyone she came into contact with.
"As a family we miss her beautiful smile which would light up any room she entered. We will miss her humour, her kindness and her love. We will never forgive the monster who took Kulsuma from us and we do not wish to utter his name. It does not deserve to be mentioned.
"The monster who savagely took Kulsuma from not only us, but also from her baby son. He will never know her beauty and her kindness.
"He will never know his mother, other than the memories we as a family will share with him as he grows. He is the only light in all this darkness and Kulsuma radiates throughout him.
'Although we are grateful for the judicial process that found him guilty of this crime and for the sentence he has received today, no amount of time in prison will change the life sentence he has inflicted upon us all.
"No family should have to endure the pain and heartache we have had to endure since he took Kulsuma's life so horrifically. We can only try and keep her memory alive by continuing to love her and to remember her name."
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