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Katie Dickinson

Man who stabbed wife in front of baby threatened to ‘kill her if she left him’

The 27-year-old woman was stabbed in the street as she pushed her baby in a pram (PA) - (PA Archive)

A man who stabbed his wife to death in front of their baby after tracking her to a women’s refuge had threatened to “kill her if she ever left him,” a court has heard.

Kulsuma Akter, 27, suffered more than 25 knife injuries in an attack by her husband Habibur Masum, 26, after he confronted her in the street while she was pushing their seven-month-old son in a pram.

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