Wife offered hip-hop band 'Dem Boyz' £200 to murder her husband, court is told



A wife paid a gang of thugs just £200 to savagely attack her estranged husband before she drove at him like a woman ' possessed' and killed him, a court was told yesterday.

Faria Khan, 28, planned the attack on Nawajid, 31, and recruited four members of a local rap band to help her carry it out, the jury heard.

She had filed for divorce only weeks earlier. Armed with axes, a hammer and a

knife, the gang ambushed the father of two as he walked to work, it is claimed.



The scene shortly after Nawajid Khan was killed as he walked to work in Heeley, Sheffield, on January 27



Mrs Khan was introduced to the aspiring rappers, who called themselves Dem Boyz, by close friend Neelam Kauser, 18.



Miss Kauser was dating one of the men and was described in court as the 'go-between'.

A text sent by Miss Kauser to her boyfriend Brian Yorachi, 19, in the weeks before the killing read: 'Babe, ask for £200 because this is some serious mission. It is involving a man's life.'

Nawajid Khan, 31,was run down in the street

Peter Kelson QC, prosecuting, told the jury that the message suggested that a price had been placed on Nawajid Khan's life and that it was no more than a few hundred pounds. .

He said: 'She (Khan) hired these men, she orchestrated the attack upon her husband, she drove them to the scene of the attack and she was the driver of the vehicle which killed him.'

He told the court that the Khans' marriage had been on the rocks for quite some time.



Mr Khan, a chef, had walked out on his wife in May last year claiming that the marriage had simply broken down. Months later, on January 9, his wife began divorce proceedings, claiming he had been abusive while they were together.

He was murdered as he walked to work at Milan's takeaway restaurant in Heeley, Sheffield, on the afternoon of Sunday, January 27.

Abdiquadar Mohammed, 18, and Daniel Moore, 22, waited for Mr Khan to appear before they launched the brutal assault.

As he received 'quite a beating' his wife arrived with the two other band members who joined in, the jury heard.

Unable to keep his balance Mr Khan staggered into the road and was mown down by the 4x4 driven by Mrs Khan, Sheffield Crown Court was told.

Group members Kanu 'Chaps' Kangi and Daniel 'Conkera' Moore

The group called themselves 'Dem Boyz' with the motto 'Rap or Die'

Group founder Brian 'Db Sque' Yorachi and, right, a picture posted byDem Boyz on their mySpace page

She allegedly crashed the car before fleeing in a taxi - leaving her husband dying in the road from multiple injuries.



Police later searched the car, a Frontera, and found a bandanna belonging to one of the gang, a knife which matched a similar set at Faria Khan's house, two axe head covers and number plates from a car which she had sold.



When arrested by detectives she admitted setting up the attack on her husband but said it was only to 'frighten and scare' him.

She had met the men in Rotherham and accepted their offer to 'sort it out'.

She denied being at the scene despite mobile phone records showing she was.

Miss Kauser said she witnessed the assault and the car being driven at speed by Mrs Khan. 'She was behaving like a woman possessed, chuckling at herself,' she told police.

Faria Khan, Kauser, Yorachi, Mohammed, Moore and Kanu Kangi, 20, all from Sheffield, deny murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent.

The trial, which is expected to last eight weeks, continues.



