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The jury was shown Mahek Bukhari's police interviews

By George Torr

BBC News

A court has been shown footage of a TikTok influencer describing a man she is accused of murdering as a "psychotic" liar.

Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, died on the A46 near Leicester on 11 February 2022.

Prosecutors claim Mahek Bukhari and others rammed the pair off the road to keep an affair between her mother and Mr Hussain secret.

A trial was shown interviews she gave to police after being arrested.

Ms Bukhari, 23, her mother Ansreen Bukhari, 46, and six other defendants deny two counts of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter at Leicester Crown Court.

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Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin (left) and Saqib Hussain died at the scene

Prosecutors say Mr Hussain had been blackmailing his former lover with sexual videos and images from their three-year affair.