The cousin of a murdered mother-of-three who was present in a intercourse offender’s freezer now helps different households who’ve misplaced family members to take care of their grief.
Mihrican ‘Jan’ Mustafa, 38, was strangled by Zahid Younis, who then locked her physique in a freezer unit alongside Henriett Szucs, 34, who was murdered in 2016.
The pair had been not been seen for months earlier than their stays have been present in April 2019 on the abandoned dwelling in Canning City.
The lack of Jan devastated her household, however her cousin, Ayse Hussein, has since used her expertise of the following grief to assist others who’re going by way of the same ordeal.
She now works alongside the likes of the mom of Olivia Pratt-Korbel – a nine-year-old lady who was killed by a gunman in Liverpool in 2022 – and Farah Naz, the aunt of Zara Aleena, who was sexually assaulted and murdered as she was strolling dwelling in London in the identical yr.
Mihrican ‘Jan’ Mustafa, 38, pictured earlier than her tragic dying
Kinfolk of Jan talking exterior of courtroom. Pictured left to proper are Ayse Hussein, niece Zeyhal Ozulku, sister Mel Mustafa, Jade, and Kazim Salih
Zahid Younis (pictured) was discovered responsible at Southwark Crown Court docket of murdering Henriett Szucs, 34, and Mihrican ‘Jan’ Mustafa
Ms Hussein runs annual occasions, the place the households and mates of homicide victims collect to assist each other and likewise acts as an Unbiased Domestic Violence Advocate.
The ex-finance employee advised The Mirror she is ‘immensely proud’ of what she has achieved.
She based The Desk of Love and Loss, the place those that have misplaced family members to violence in London come collectively. On the occasion, family and friends members arrange a desk in reminiscence of the victims.
They place photographs, private objects and different mementos to assist keep in mind who they’ve misplaced.
Ms Hussein advised The Mirror: ‘A father who’d misplaced his daughter, he mentioned he by no means got here to those issues, and on his stroll up it was actually daunting, as a result of it was so massive it was fairly scary he discovered. However by the top he mentioned it was one thing he actually wanted, and he acquired a lot consolation and love out of it.’
She mentioned she arrange the occasion after she misplaced her cousin and commenced attending vigils.
When she arrange one thing to honour Jan, she needed different households to be part of it, and when somebody advised her they understood what she was going by way of, ‘they actually truly did’.
Ms Hussein beforehand mentioned the household felt let down by the Met Police, criticising the best way the power dealt with the investigation after Jan was reported lacking in 2018.
Police visited Younis’ dwelling 5 weeks after Ms Mustafa had disappeared as a result of his identify got here up on her cellphone data.
Mihrican, also referred to as Jan or Mary-Jane, was reported lacking in Could 2018
The officers, nevertheless, merely put a leaflet by way of the his door regardless of being conscious of his disturbing historical past of abusing girls which noticed him jailed for getting a baby bride pregnant when she was 14.
It was solely after considerations have been flagged of Younis’ whereabouts when officers searched the flat and found the 2 our bodies within the freezer.
It emerged within the homicide trial in 2019 that Younis preyed on girls who have been susceptible and simple to control.
Kinfolk mentioned the mother-of-three was caught up in medication after she grew to become unable to proceed receiving housing advantages and ended up dropping her dwelling.
Ms Hussein mentioned she believes her cousin might need lived if officers had taken the case extra critically and that the power dismissed her disappearance as a consequence of her chaotic life-style.
The household, who weren’t permitted to carry a press enchantment, even took issues in their very own arms and made their very own lacking particular person posters.
Forensics officers depart the flat in Canning City, East London, in April 2019
Proof markers laid throughout Younis’s bed room flooring after police searched the flat in 2019
The physique of Henriett Szucs (pictured) was additionally found within the padlocked freezer
When police caught up with Younis, they discovered the our bodies had been frozen for therefore lengthy that that they had develop into fused collectively.
Bodycam footage launched by Scotland Yard confirmed cops looking the flat earlier than they made the grim discovery in April 2019, with one detective heard saying: ‘There is a freezer right here I wish to get into however it’s locked.’
Each victims had suffered appalling accidents together with a number of damaged ribs. Ms Mustafa had suffered a fractured larynx and Ms Szucs’s cranium had been fractured.
The choose, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, mentioned on the sentencing: ‘It is going to shock nobody on this room that the defendant has declined to attend his sentence, whereas he sits within the cells beneath, however I’ll handle these remarks to him so when he has the braveness to learn them he’ll perceive why the courtroom has reached the conclusion it has.’
She branded Younis an ‘arch-deceiver’, calling him a ‘heartless man and a narcissist’, including: ‘You’ve preyed upon the susceptible with superficial appeal.
‘You’ve been convicted by the sturdy prosecution case. Not solely have been the our bodies of two girls discovered in your house, hidden in a locked freezer bought for that goal, they confirmed indicators of violence which you failed to elucidate.’
The choose mentioned Younis had ‘robbed’ his victims of ‘all happiness in life and dignity in dying,’ and mentioned: ‘You don’t have any regret.’
Younis had abused girlfriends for a few years and left one accomplice with a damaged arm in 2007.
He married a 13-year-old lady in a Walthamstow mosque when he was 20 and admitted illegal sexual exercise with a baby the next yr in 2005 when she fell pregnant.
Younis additionally admitted frequent assault after he put {the teenager} in a headlock to tug her out of a grocery store.
She was launched to him when she was 12 and so they started a sexual relationship when she was 13.
A yr later they have been married in an Islamic ceremony on the mosque.
Younis was given 30 months for having intercourse along with her in 2005 and in 2008 he was jailed for breaking the arm of one other teenage lover in three locations.
He was sentenced to just about 5 years in jail after admitting two counts of wounding and one depend of assault occasioning precise bodily hurt towards the 17-year-old.
Younis left her coated in bruises and remoted from her mates whereas threatening to set her household dwelling on hearth if she confided in anybody in regards to the abuse.
One other girlfriend who went on to have his baby was locked in an airing cabinet for hours by Younis.
He additionally imprisoned her in a phone field when she tried to name her mom and threatened to throw her in entrance of a practice.
The Met Police beforehand mentioned in a press release that it referred itself to the Unbiased Workplace for Police Conduct after Jan’s dying.
The IOPC referred the matter again to the Met for the Directorate of Skilled Requirements to research.
However the assertion went on to say: ‘The DPS investigation concluded Mihrican’s dying couldn’t have been prevented or foreseen. There was no indication that police actions and selections triggered or contributed to her dying and no misconduct recognized for any officer.’
