A primary school teacher was strangled to death with her own bra strap by her estranged husband after he took her £20,000 wedding jewellery and stashed it in a city centre safe, a court heard.
Mum-of-two Rukshana Miah, 35, who taught at Broadoak Primary School in Ashton-under-Lyne, died after allegedly being strangled with the strap and also the cord of an electric heater at her home at Longford Road West, North Reddish.
Her husband, former club doorman Abul Kashem Miah, 37, of Florist Street, Shaw Heath, Stockport, denies murder but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, saying he lost self-control. The prosecution in a Manchester Crown Court trial reject this and say he acted out of ‘pure and simple anger’.
The court heard the couple began a relationship in 1999, and married in an Islamic ceremony, in spite her family’s disapproval of him and ‘love matches’ in general. The relationship ‘burned brightly’ at first, prosecutor Rob Hall said. However over time Abul Miah acted in a ‘violent’ and ‘controlling’ way and ran up debts.
