21-year-old Farooq Shah has been found guilty of murder after he stabbed and killed Romanian mother-of-one Mariana Popa on the street in U.K.
Pregnant Sex Worker Stabbed To Death On The Street By A 21-Year-Old Man
He has been arrested, charged and found guilty of murder. But why did he do it?
It is likely Mariana's life ended just because she was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Shah is said to have robbed a man just before the murder and police say he had the intention of harming someone with the knife he was carrying that night.
The Mirror reports:
Emergency services were called to the area shortly after midnight to reports of an injured woman, who was found with stab wounds to the chest. She was identified as Romanian , 24 – a sex worker who was in the early stages of pregnancy when she died, and also had a six-year-old daughter.
DI Richards said: “() killed Mariana because she was there, because he thought he could get away with it. In doing so, he has deprived a young daughter of her mother.”
Investigating the murder, officers reviewed hundreds of hours of CCTV footage, some of which captured the murder taking place. Images showed , who had only been in the UK a number of weeks, walking along with a man on a bicycle before he is seen taking a knife from his back pocket and stabbing her twice in the chest.
He makes off on his bike, while collapses at a nearby shop. After tracking down s bike, police arrested him at his home in November. He was found guilty of murder, and will be sentenced later this month.
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