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‘Aylesbury taxi driver murdered wife for insurance cash’, court hears


A CASH-STRAPPED taxi driver murdered his wife in order to claim more than £100,000 in life insurance, a court has heard.


This week, jurors were told that Mohammed Tariq Aziz, of Glaven Road, Aylesbury, beat Zarina Bibi to death in her own home.

Just two days before her death in March last year, the couple had received a letter confirming their £112,500 life insurance policy had been approved.

Mr Aziz, 45, denies murder.

At his trial at Reading Crown Court, prosecutors said that the victim had been beaten to death with a ‘heavy weapon’, which police suspect was discarded – alongside bloodied clothing – in Rabans Lane, Aylesbury.

Neither the weapon nor the clothes were ever found.

Prosecuting, Ben Gumpert described the killing as ‘murder in cold blood’.

He said: “It hadn’t been a particularly happy marriage, certainly in the months leading up to Zarina Bibi’s death, but this isn’t a case of hot blooded violence because of anger, or bad feeling between a man and wife.

“The prosecution’s case is that this was a calculated murder in cold blood. It was carried out so that the defendant could benefit from a life insurance policy he had just taken out.”

And he stated: “Her injuries suggest her attacker may have tried to strangle her, but it wasn’t that that led to her death. It was rather a rather a number of blows to her head. There were at least nine of them.”

Mr Gumpert continued: “The prosecution can’t point with any certainty to any particular murder weapon.”

He said a bloodied kitchen stool had been found next to the victim’s body, but a pathologist had voiced doubts over whether it was sturdy enough to carry out the attack.

Mr Gumpert said a kitchen drawer had been found open when police arrived on the scene, and speculated that a weapon could have been pulled from it. Jurors were shown distressing images of the kitchen and hallway of the home in the aftermath of the attack.

It is thought that Mrs Bibi was beaten to death between 12.30pm and 3.45pm on March 16, 2011.

Her body was discovered when a teenager spotted her from outside the house.

Within hours of the killing, Mr Aziz was driving a minibus picking up schoolchildren and disabled adults, the court heard.

Jurors were also told that the taxi driver had changed his clothes in the time between his morning shift and his afternoon work, during which time he returned home.

On Tuesday, Abuzar Khan, who worked with Mr Aziz for First Class Travel, said he had not noticed anything unusual on the day of the killing. Passenger assistant Mr Khan, speaking through an interpreter, said: “It was a normal school run.”

Mohammed Khamisa, defending, said: “Tariq (Mr Aziz) appeared his usual self both in the morning and in the afternoon?”

Mr Khan responded: “That’s right.”

That morning, Mr Aziz had driven a minibus of children to school, and then dropped disabled adults at Aylesbury Methodist Centre day centre.

He then went to view a car with his friend Mohammed Rangzeb, returning to the house shortly after 11.30am. He made a phone call to his accountant about mortgage payments, and his wife called the couple’s mortgage supplier shortly after 12.30pm.

His Volkswagen Caravelle was seen in Rabans Lane, Aylesbury, at around 1.30pm.

Mr Gumpert said: “The defendant had just committed a brutal and bloody murder, and he needed to get rid of the clothes he was wearing, the thing he had done it with, and his mobile phone.”

The prosecutor said: “The prosecution case is that somewhere in the area, whether in the waste grounds or a skip, on this day would have been found those items.”

The case continues.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Two murdered spouses in a week, who'd be married to a taxi driver

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

this guy used to work with me he was okay untill the day he borrowed £400 from me and then never returned it.
He once said to me lets go partners into buying a hackney cab and plate but i refused his offer as many told me his not to be trusted they said he will take the money saying im going to buy but then will keep the money and say you didnt give me no money so luckly i didnt.
Im happy owning my own cab.

And breathing.

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IDFIMH

Aylesbury murder trial latest: Police criticised over ‘unfair’ interviews with ‘loving’ husband



A TAXI driver accused of killing his wife told police he loved her ‘very much’ when spoken to immediately after her death, a court has heard.


Jurors were also told that Mohammed Tariq Aziz had been in shock and appeared ‘not with it’ in the hours after Zarina Bibi, 40, was killed.

But police were criticised for the way Mr Aziz was interviewed after he was taken to Aylesbury Police Station for a ‘debrief’.

Jurors heard a PCSO was summoned from Milton Keynes to act as an interpreter, but could not find a common language both were fluent in.

For this reason, Mr Aziz, 45, answered questions in a mish-mash of Urdu, English and Gujurati, with the answers recorded by Det Con Gemma Robinson.

Det Con Robinson told the court that Mr Aziz said he ‘loved her (Mrs Bibi) very much’, that he did not hit her, and had ‘no arguments’.

He was also happy for his car to be searched.

She added that he seemed ‘not with it’, sitting with his eyes closed and head down.

Defending, Mohammed Khamisa, said that the interview should have been recorded, and said: “You were asking the questions, which is then being translated in a language that he doesn’t understand.

“He then answers the questions in a language which the translator doesn’t understand, and then it was relayed to you.”

Det Con Robinson responded: “Yes.”

Mr Khamisa continued: “Doesn’t that strike you as a little unfair?”

Det Con Robinson said: “If we were looking at him as a suspect at the time, then yes. But we were trying to establish medical evidence.”

During the hour-long briefing session, which was held immediately after Mr Aziz was informed of his wife’s death, the taxi driver recounted his actions on the day.

He said he had gone to his brother-in-law’s house in Prebendal Avenue at around 1pm, before speaking to his boss at Sky Time Cabs.

He had then worked on a school run from 2pm with a passenger assistant, before picking up another colleague at around 4pm, to do more contract work.

Mr Aziz was informed of his wife’s death at around 4.30pm, he told police, when his colleague received a call on her mobile phone.

The police officer conceded that there was ‘room for error’ within Mr Aziz’s responses, as was written down.

Mr Aziz denies murder.

The trial continues.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Phew, for a moment I thought it was going to be someone called Peter.

Yet another prime example of how these men regard their girls, she paid the price of his failure, he thought he could mug the insurance company, now he knows he's lost his skivvy and isn't getting a payout he's all grief striken, I'm grief striken that these people are allowed to mug us off all the time, and treat other human beings i.e females so badly.