Aylesbury murder trial latest: ‘There was blood everywhere’
THE distraught brother of Aylesbury murder victim Zarina Bibi has said his world fell apart when he was told of her death.
Zahir Jalal told Reading Crown Court he was informed Mrs Bibi was dead by police outside his sister’s Glaven Road home.
Mr Jalal and Mrs Bibi’s husband, Mohammed Tariq Aziz, were both taken into a police car where the news was broken. Mr Aziz, 45, denies murder.
Mrs Bibi, 40, suffered multiple blows to the head and was found lying dead between her kitchen and hallway on March 16 last year.
Mr Jalal said: “I started punching the seat as my world had been turned upside down. As soon as the police officer told us she was dead I ran out of the car, and he (Mr Aziz) ran out of the car as well.”
The court heard that the couple had clashed over the amount of money Mr Aziz – who was in arrears in his mortgage – was sending to family in Pakistan.
Jurors were read a statement by trainee midwife Rebecca Bear who said she had seen Mrs Bibi’s body through the letterbox and called 999. She had been with her friend Julian House driving along Glaven Road when a frantic young boy flagged them down.
She peered into the house and told police: “I could see a lady who was collapsed on the floor. I could see she wasn’t moving but I couldn’t see her upper torso or head.”
She called an ambulance and a neighbour broke through a pane of glass to enter.
Police say there were no other signs of a break-in.
Mrs Bibi was already dead when paramedics and police arrived, and jurors heard she had suffered nine blows to her head in a brutal attack.
Ms Bear said: “The lady was lying down. I didn’t see her head, there was blood everywhere.”
Scene of crime officer Clare Jordan told the court she had examined Mr Aziz the day after the killing and searched the taxi driver’s minibus for blood particles.
Neither yielded any signs of blood, and Ms Jordan said the minibus showed no signs of being cleaned recently.
She told the court: “If there was evidence that it had recently been valeted, conclusions might have been drawn from that.”
The case continues.
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