Husband who killed wife in knife attack jailed for life

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

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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, pictured, 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.”