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Katie Dickinson

Man who stabbed wife to death says he planned to kill himself but ‘lost control’

The scene in Bradford city centre where Kulsuma Akter was stabbed (Dave Higgens/PA) - (PA Archive)

A man who stabbed his wife to death as she pushed their baby in a pram told a court he had intended to kill himself in front of her but “lost control” when he thought she was suggesting someone could replace him as a father to their son.

Kulsuma Akter, 27, suffered more than 25 knife injuries in an attack by her husband Habibur Masum, 26, after he confronted her in a street in Bradford on April 6 last year.

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