US EditionMan who said ‘no-one cares’ jailed for life for murder of deaf young woman
CCTV footage showed Owusu throwing Mukhtar from the car and punching her as witnesses pleaded for help, prosecutors said.
- On Tuesday, Judge Richard Marks KC sentenced Duane Owusu to life in prison with a minimum term of 16 years and six months for murdering Zahwa Mukhtar at the Old Bailey.
- During the early hours of August 16, 2025, Owusu threw the aspiring accountant out of an overcrowded car in Chadwell Heath and fatally punched her in the neck following a rave.
- Brother Jamaluddin Mukhtar described the victim as a "remarkable young woman" shaped by "extraordinary perseverance," while Judge Marks noted she was "fiercely independent" despite being deaf.
- While defense barrister Michael Borrelli KC called Owusu a "family man" with a "decent moral compass," Judge Marks condemned his "callous and selfish" conduct for abandoning the unconscious victim.
- Jurors were not told Owusu had served eight years for a 2010 robbery conviction; the court weighed Mukhtar's vulnerability as a deaf person as an aggravating factor in sentencing.
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Man sentenced to life in jail for brutal murder of 27 yr old Zahwa Mukhtar
A man has been jailed for life for murder after brutally assaulting and throwing a deaf Muslim woman from a car. Earlier today, a judge at the Old Bailey sentenced Duane Owusu, 36, to a minimum of 16 years and six months in jail for the murder of Zahwa Mukhtar, 27, in Chadwell Heath, East […] The post Man sentenced to life in jail for brutal murder of 27 yr old Zahwa Mukhtar appeared first on 5Pillars.
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