A Pakistani-origin woman and her British lover have been arrested over claims they killed her husband from an arranged marriage.
LONDON: A Pakistani-origin woman and her British lover have been arrested over claims they killed her husband from an arranged marriage.
Twenty-three-year-old Yasira Pervez and 45-year-old Ian Priddle are accused of flying to Pakistan and luring Khurrum Mukhtar to his death.
Police said the 19-year-old was found murdered in a frenzied stabbing in a hotel room. According to a report in Britain's Daily Mail on Monday, Pervez and Priddle are suspected of having taken the next flight home and were arrested as soon as their plane landed at Manchester Airport.
Sixteen months later the pair, who are on police bail, are facing possible extradition for a murder trial.
Pervez married Mukhtar, her Pakistani cousin, in his homeland in 2004. But soon after their wedding and honeymoon in Lahore she returned alone to Lancashire.
It is believed she had told her husband she would make the arrangements for him to follow her here.
According to the report, Pervez then had a passionate affair with Priddle, a man twice her age. And a few weeks after returning to the UK, Pervez is said to have told her husband she had aborted their baby.
According to police sources, Pervez moved in with Priddle and together they set up a newsagent's business in Bolton. In December 2006, the pair are suspected of flying to Pakistan where Pervez is said to have asked her husband to meet her to discuss the future of their marriage.
The couple reportedly met Mukhtar at the Comfort Inn in Rawalpindi where he was found by a waiter in a pool of blood. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to injuries.
The couple were questioned by detectives from Greater Manchester Police on suspicion of murder before they were released on bail. Pervez and Priddle, who had split up after they were arrested, are due to answer police bail in Manchester this week.
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