Four jailed for killing wife

The court heard Fethaullah Mohammed hated his stepmother

Four men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping and murdering a woman whose body was set on fire in a south London park.

Fethaullah Mohammed, 42, denied recruiting three men to help kidnap and murder his stepmother, who was in the middle of a costly divorce from his father.

The trial at the Old Bailey heard he made no secret of his hatred for Yasmin Akhtar and felt the divorce threatened his inheritance.

He and three accomplices, Paul Bush, Rupert Alleyne and David Quarry, kidnapped Ms Akhtar from her home in Redhill, Surrey, on 4 March 2002.

She was taken to a shop on Old Kent Road, south London, and strangled with black tape, the court heard.

Ms Aktar's body was doused in petrol and set alight

Afterwards her body was wrapped in a carpet, petrol was poured over her face and she was set alight in Larkhall Park, Clapham, south London.

Although Mohammed, 42, from Balham, Bush, 34, of Worcester Park, Surrey, Alleyne, 43, of Streatham, south London, and Quarry, 38, from Clapham, were convicted on 1 August, reporting restrictions were only lifted on Thursday.

Each has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and 15 years for kidnapping, to run concurrently.

The trial heard 35-year-old Ms Akhtar had asked her 66-year-old husband for a divorce and was claiming a £250,000 settlement.