A former kebab shop worker was facing a life sentence today after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend with cling film and masking tape after he became enraged with jealousy.

Ahsan Hassan, 28, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, killed Zofia Sadowska, 20, in a takeaway after a series of stalking incidents triggered by her dating his childhood friend. He was later found at his home with deep cuts to his wrist, in what he claimed was an attempted suicide.

CCTV footage shown during the trial showed 'utterly fixated' Hassan - known as 'Ali' - hiding behind bins to stalk Ms Sadowska weeks before he carried her 'limp and completely floppy' body out of the kebab shop and into a taxi.

Former kebab shop worker Ahsan Hassan (left), 28, killed Zofia Sadowska (right), 20, after a series of stalking incidents triggered by her dating his childhood friend. Hassan had stalked her weeks before asphyxiating her with cling film

Hassan admitted manslaughter by killing the Polish woman in what he described as part of a lovers' suicide pact, jurors at Reading Crown Court were told.

Hassan had stood in the dock with his childhood friend from Pakistan, Usmar Ansar, who was accused of lying to police to protect his friend after feeling 'very guilty' about having sexual relations with Ms Sadowska behind his back.

The jury took five hours and nine minutes to unanimously find Hassan guilty of murder but his 40-year-old co-accused was cleared of perverting the course of justice.

Officers and paramedics found Hassan in a pool of blood with deep self-inflicted cuts to his wrist next to Ms Sadowska's body in his bedroom at his home on September 20, 2016.

Two days earlier at around 11.30pm, Hassan tricked his former lover to go to the Dennis kebab shop in High Wycombe, where he had worked previously and still had the keys for.

After murdering her in the takeaway, at around 2am he took her and put her into a waiting taxi, convincing the driver she was drunk and asleep and travelled to his home.

Hassan tricked his former lover to go to the Dennis kebab shop (above) in High Wycombe, Bucks, where he had worked previously and still had the keys for. After murdering her in the takeaway, at around 2am he took her and put her into a waiting taxi, convincing the driver she was drunk and asleep and travelled to his home

Emergency services were called just after 5am on September 19, to a report of an attempted suicide and Hassan told officers that it was a suicide pact to try to cover up what he had done.

Prosecutor Alan Blake said at the start of the trial: 'It is the prosecution case that by September 18 last year, Ali had become jealous and controlling over Zofia. Despite their continuing relationship, she remained living with her partner rather than moving in with him.

'She continued to drink too much and to enjoy the attentions of other men.

'Having been convinced that he could change her, by the weekend of September 17 and 18, it must have become apparent to Ali that she was not going to conform according to his wishes.'

'However he was quite unable to let her go and quite unable to allow anyone else to have her. The trip to the Crowne Plaza hotel with another man was the final insult,' said Mr Blake.

'It may be that having killed the woman with whom he had become utterly fixated and faced with the prospect of being prosecuted for her murder, the defendant Ali genuinely made an attempt on his life on that Monday morning.'

Mr Blake said that the defence maintained that not only did he want to die on the morning of September 19 but that Zofia had also wanted to die and that he killed her as part of a suicide pact rather than out of his jealousy, frustration and inability to let her go.

Officers and paramedics found Hassan in a pool of blood with deep self-inflicted cuts to his wrist next to Ms Sadowska's body in his bedroom at his home (above) on September 20, 2016

He continued: 'The Crown say that that was, and still is, the defendant seeking to dress up and make more palatable and honourable what was actually the premeditated, callous and, ultimately utterly selfish murder of a young mother with a lot to live for.

'He must have taken Zofia into the disused restaurant on Gayhurst Road under false pretences. There it appears he restrained her and used physical violence upon her before asphyxiating to incapacity and quite probably to death.

'Having incapacitated her or killed her, he put her in a taxi and took her back to the home address, maintaining the charade that she was drunk and asleep.'

A postmortem examination which was carried out on her body at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, revealed that there was no alcohol in her body at the time of her death, the cause of which was found to be asphyxia consistent with compression of the neck.

Hassan's childhood friend from Pakistan, Usman, with whom he shared a room and bed in a house share in High Wycombe, was said to have acted as a 'go-between' between the lovers during a break in their relationship.

Hassan was found guilty of murder at Reading Crown Court yesterday and will be sentenced on Monday, April 7.

Senior investigating officer, Detectiveve Inspector Stuart Blaik of Thames Valley Police's Major Crime Unit, said: 'I am pleased that Hassan has been convicted for his crimes.

'Hassan was deeply controlling, manipulative and consumed with jealousy. He evilly planned to murder Zofia and then showed cowardice when he tried to cover up his crime by falsely claiming that both he and Zofia had wished to commit suicide.

'Hassan has never admitted his crimes, which has made dealing with the loss of Zofia even more of a terrible ordeal for her family. I would like to pay tribute to Zofia's family for their courage throughout.'