Life term for husband who killed pram-pushing wife

A CONTROLLING husband who “viciously and mercilessly” murdered his wife in a knife attack while she was pushing their baby in a pram has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years.

- JOSH PAYNE Press Association reporter

Kulsuma Akter was left bleeding to death by 27-year-old Habibur Masum, who had stalked her to a women’s refuge in Bradford and attacked her in broad daylight.

Masum, 27, was told he is “violent, self-centred, jealous, controlling and coercive” by judge Mr Justice Cotter yesterday as he was sentenced at the city’s crown court.

The judge also told Masum: “You stole a precious young life in a brutal and merciless fashion.”

Ms Akter’s brother Emran Hussain said her death had left her family with “such a deep, painful void in our lives”.

In his sentencing remarks, the judge told Masum: “It is indeed a sad fact that it can be very difficult to entirely protect a woman in a refuge from a determined and cunning man intent on confrontation.”