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Katie Dickinson

‘Controlling’ husband killed wife after tracking her to refuge, court told

Court artist drawing of Habibur Masum appearing in the dock at Bradford Magistrates’ Court, West Yorkshire (Elizabeth Cook/PA) - (PA Archive)

A “violent, jealous, controlling” husband stabbed his wife to death as she pushed their baby in a pram after tracing her to a hostel where she was staying to escape him, prosecutors have told a jury.

Habibur Masum, 26, launched a “ferocious” knife attack on Kulsuma Akter, 27, after confronting her on a street in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

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