YouTuber who violently stabbed wife to death filmed himself packing hospital bag for baby

A YouTuber who stabbed his wife to death as she pushed their seven-month-old baby in a pram shared a video packing a hospital bag for the birth just months before the violent murder.

Habibur Masum, 26, repeatedly stabbed Kulsuma Akter, 27, after tracing her to a refuge where she had gone to escape his "violence, jealousy and controlling behaviour", a court heard. Mrs Akter later died in hospital after suffering more than 25 stab wounds in the attack on a street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on April 6 last year.

Days before the murder, Masum tried to lure Ms Akter out of the accommodation by pretending to be from a GP surgery and offering her fake appointments.

He then sent her a photo of the refuge with a message saying: “I know that you are living in this place. I knew from the first day you moved here. If I had any wish to kill you, I could have from the first day. You do not know what you have lost but one day you will understand. Nobody will love you like I do.”

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Ms Akter was walking with a friend and pushing her her seven-month-old son in a pram when she was confronted by Masum, who she thought was in Spain. CCTV footage played during a court hearing earlier this month showed Masum stopping the mum, spinning her and the pram around and pulling a knife from his jacket.

Just eight months before the horrific fatal attack, Masum uploaded a short video to YouTube showing him packing a hospital bag in preparation for the birth of their first baby.

Items included a towel, a blanket, tiny baby clothes and nappies.

In another video, Masum shared footage of himself putting together a cot. 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."

CCTV footage of the attack played during the trial captured Ms Akter’s screams as Masum stabbed her at least 25 times, put her on the ground and kicked her “as a final insult” before lifting her head and deliberately cutting her throat.

Mr Wood said the “smiling killer” then calmly walked through Bradford city centre and was seen on CCTV grinning as he got on a bus, “believing at that point he was getting away”.

Jurors heard Masum travelled almost 200 miles south to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and was arrested in the early hours of April 9 in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he had gone to be treated for “lockjaw”.

During the trial, Masum refused to watch footage of the attack but jurors heard that during his first police interview he requested to see it, with Mr Wood saying he wanted to see what officers “had on him”.

When he gave evidence, Masum said he did not remember killing his wife and had taken a knife with him intending to stab himself in front of her if she did not “listen to him”.

He broke down in tears as he claimed to have “lost control” when Ms Akter told him there would be no shortage of people willing to replace him as a father to their son.

But Mr Wood said his tears “were as fake as his claims of self harm” and that “the only person Habibur Masum feels sorry for is himself”.