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An abusive husband will be sentenced on Thursday for murdering his estranged wife and their two young children.

Mohammed Abdul Shakur, 46, spent years on the run after killing 26-year-old Juli Begum and daughters Anika and Thanha, aged five and six, on New Year's Day 2007.

Following a trial at the Old Bailey last year, Shakur was found guilty of carrying out the murders at the family home in East Ham, east London.

The court had heard the couple had an arranged marriage in Bangladesh when Ms Begum was 19 but Shakur was repeatedly violent towards his wife and did not like their children much because they were not boys.

The pair had rowed over his immigration status and financial contribution to the household in the run-up to the New Year massacre, jurors were told.

On January 10 2007, police went to the family home and discovered the body of 4ft 8in Ms Begum beneath a bedcover with Anika laid across her and Thanha nearby.

By the end of the week, Shakur had fled to Bangladesh where he confessed his crimes to his sister-in-law, warning her: "If you tell the police I will murder you and your children."

He was eventually arrested in India in May 2013 before being extradited to the UK in April 2019.

Shakur, who declined to give evidence in his trial, will be sentenced by Judge Richard Marks QC on Thursday.