two not-so-secret lovers, one of whom was playing with fire.
It was certainly known within the family groups
that he was leading almost a double life.
In the mix of a complicated world,
a man shopping in Poundland.
He's buying these items that are very suspicious.
Passions were running deep
in a multi-partner intrigue.
Caught in the middle, a teenager under pressure.
I am not going to say my father killed your lover.
A story of sex, lies, and security tapes,
would police uncover the mystery of the body in the boot?
It was clear to the police that somebody was lying to them
and probably everyone was.
In 2003, at the age of 20
and after an arranged marriage,
Tanveer Iqbal began family life,
making his home in a quiet street in Birmingham.
He had settled and married his wife Nasreen,
and they had two children.
He was well-liked.
He was doing well in his work,
he had status in the music industry.
Tanveer worked in his family's music shop,
High Tech Music, whilst he also tried to forge a career
for himself as a DJ and producer.
Five years into his arranged marriage to wife Nasreen,
a customer walked in who would change everything.
Her name, Zatoon Bibi.
Zatoon Bibi had met Tanveer Iqbal in 2008.
She just happened to be passing by a record store
in Birmingham were he was working.
She popped in, they started chatting,
and eventually they exchanged numbers.
I think there are several characteristics about Tanveer
that Zatoon would have found very attractive.
So, he was a few years younger than her.
He was a pillar of the community.
He was a well-known personality.
He was involved in the music business.
So, all of these things are quite attractive.
The attraction was mutual.
It wasn't long before Tanveer and Zatoon met
for what was supposed to be a one-off fling.
Zatoon and Tanveer had slept together on one occasion
at a hotel in Birmingham.
The reason it was supposed to be a one-off?
Zatoon was also married to a man called Gul Nawaz,
with whom she had four children.
It was an arranged marriage.
He was older than her and he was from Pakistan,
and he came here after they were married.
They'd spent a very short period of time
getting to know each other,
but it was all very superficial as you can imagine.
For Zatoon at least,
family life back in Oldbury outside Birmingham was stifling.
Her marriage has gone a bit stale,
so I think to have the attention of this man,
who's a bit younger, who's popular,
is something that really puts the spring back in her step.
There must have come a time when she realized
that she wanted more from life,
and I think that's when things started to go wrong.
The bored housewife and her dynamic younger lover,
both with partners and children,
took things beyond a casual fling, dangerous territory.
This didn't stop them from developing their relationship together.
They became regular lovers.
In a twist, Tanveer's two partners,
Nasreen, his wife, and Zatoon, the lover,
appeared okay with the arrangement.
They both had knowledge of one another.
Tanveer's relationship with the two ladies
was quite well known.
You've got two individuals from very traditional communities
with very set ideas of what a family should look like and what it should be,
especially outwardly facing to the community.
And then behind closed doors,
you've got all of this going on.
He had a wife and children with another woman,
and that was just accepted within the relationship
that that was the setup.
Zatoon's husband, Gul Nawaz,
knew about his wife's romance on the side.
He was aware that Zatoon was having a relationship with another man.
I think he feels incredibly let down when he discovers
that Zatoon has been carrying on with Tanveer behind his back.
You had a complex situation in which Tanveer and Zatoon
have this odd relationship.
They were obviously in love with each other at some point,
but the fact that each of them have spouses,
separate spouses, meant that life was very complicated.
This relationship, it's a pressure cooker.
And it's not an affair that either of them,
I think, could just walk away from,
because both of them are quite heavily invested in it.
With a wife and two children at home
and a steamy affair going on
with an older, married mom-of-four,
Tanveer Iqbal's tangled love life was set
to become even more complicated.
He was about to be a father with lover Zatoon as the mother.
The couple were playing with fire and it was escalating.
Zatoon Bibi got pregnant again with the fifth child.
This is the point at which this kind of transforms
from this relationship that she's having on the side,
that's probably a bit of fun, that probably kind of brings
a little bit of a sparkle into her life
to something that is very serious because she's pregnant.
She's going to have this baby,
and this takes it to a whole new level.
That obviously impacted on Tanveer's relationship with his wife,
and it impacted on Zatoon's relationship with Gul.
For Tanveer, things had suddenly got serious.
You've got this parallel life that he's having.
This isn't just an affair on the side anymore.
This is a completely kind of formed family life.
After the baby was born, Zatoon arranged
for Tanveer to spend time with his daughter each week.
Tanveer maintained and developed his relationship
with both Zatoon and his daughter.
They would regularly go out together,
even going to London for a trip together.
Zatoon went to London to meet Tanveer
and to spend some time with him a few days,
and she took the baby with her.
And they'd taken photographs
at various London attractions,
She was foolish enough to keep hold of those
and take them back
and leave them in a cupboard in the house.
Gul found a picture of Zatoon and Tanveer
and their daughter on a little trip together that they'd taken.
According to Zatoon, the accidental discovery
at their Oldbury house sparked a terrifying reaction.
Things turned ugly, Gul brandishing a kitchen knife
and Zatoon forced to call 999.
Zatoon claims that Gul became violent
when he discovered this picture
and that she had to go upstairs with her child
and lock herself in the bathroom.
And I think we always have to take any allegations
of domestic abuse seriously, but what we also need to do
is take a step back and look at how helpful
is this particular narrative to Zatoon.
Could she be using this as a way
to paint a picture of herself, to create herself
as a more sympathetic character in this story?
By kind of dropping this in there, we do have to be
quite skeptical of whether this is true or not.
Whatever really happened
in the Nawaz family home that day, it was a turning point.
Essentially this kind of contributes
to the breakdown of their relationship.
Gul Decided that's it, I've had enough,
and he had an Islamic divorce from Zatoon.
And in the Islamic tradition, a divorce is pronounced
by simply repeating the words I divorce you three times,
and that's what he did.
It may have appeared simple,
but it wasn't the end of the complications.
The problem with that was that...
in the culture
that they both were brought up in,
divorce is a sin.
And therefore, it could not be openly discussed,
and the family had to be kept ignorant of it.
Gul Nawaz agreed with his wife
that they should keep up an appearance of still being married.
What you then have was this bizarre pretense
of the family living together in the same house,
but separate lives.
Instead of ending the relationship,
saying, "I've had enough,
"you've been unfaithful.
I want a divorce in which we go our separate ways",
he was prepared to, and possibly,
I think, for his own benefit, for his own pride,
for his own honor, and for hers as well,
to live this lie that they were still husband and wife.
Trapped in a fake life with Gul Nawaz,
Zatoon began to figure out an escape plan.
She then went on to have a second child with Tanveer.
Zatoon feels entitled to this exclusive relationship with Tanveer.
She feels that she deserves it because she's invested
so much in terms of time and in terms of emotional energy.
She may have wanted to control things
with Tanveer, but their relationship,
rooted in lies from the start, had problems.
There was a lot of friction,
a huge amount of distrust between Tanveer and Zatoon.
How was Zatoon going to deal
with Tanveer's wife Nasreen?
This was an arrangement that was never going to be a sustainable one.
Zatoon realizes that she's pregnant.
One man, two women, six children...
it was never going to add up.
It was an ambush. When Tanveer came in, he was jumped.
Despite his affair and two children
with Zatoon Bibi, Tanveer Iqbal stayed
with his wife Nasreen and their children
at the family home in Bearwood, Birmingham.
Nasreen came from a culture from Pakistan
where it was acceptable in certain circumstances
that her husband could take a second wife.
And somehow she reconciled herself to this arrangement.
Not only tolerant of it, she almost embraced it.
Tanveer was her husband, she was his wife, this was her life,
and she was going to make it work.
Tanveer seemed to have established
what was for him the perfect love triangle.
And so an extraordinary situation developed
whereby Tanveer had two children with his own wife
but two children with a woman
with whom he was having an affair.
Zatoon kept up a pretense of marriage to Gul,
caring for their four children, including one, Khashim,
who would play a big part in her later plans.
She also got herself a house just a few minutes away from her lover.
From here, she exerted control in a new way.
This time over Nasreen.
The relationship between the two ladies,
that's Tanveer's wife and Zatoon Bibi,
as you could probably appreciate it, wasn't a good one.
There'd been lots of communication between the two parties
over the telephone.
While things were understandably frosty
to begin with, Zatoon gradually wormed her way
into Nasreen's confidence.
Things began to change.
Zatoon managed to get to meet her.
She'd take her for coffee at Cafe's, they'd sit down, they'd have a natter.
They'd talk about their respective lives
and about the man that they shared.
And slowly but surely Nasreen began to trust her.
Here was Zatoon, this worldly wise woman older than Nasreen,
understanding how British society worked.
She befriended her.
And, strangely enough, by some means
she persuaded Nasreen
that this triangular relationship could actually work.
They appear to become friends,
but I think what's going on here is that Zatoon
is being quite manipulative.
She wants Tanveer for herself, and it's always best
to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
And I think that is literally what was going on in this case.
And in order for her to be able to win her man,
she needed to break that relationship
between him and his wife.
In August 2015, Tanveer found out
what Zatoon had been up to.
Tanveer finds out that Zatoon and Nasreen
have become friends and that they are in touch
with one another, and he is not happy with this whatsoever.
There was a lot of conflict in the relationship,
and she was, to some extent, creating mischief
as between Tanveer and his wife.
Tanveer asks Nasreen and Zatoon to stop texting,
and there could be a number of reasons for this.
One of the reasons may be with the women
developing a relationship independently of him,
he may have felt that he didn't have as much control
of the situation as he did in the beginning.
He doesn't want these two women in contact with each other.
He wants to keep these two parts of his life separate.
He wants them compartmentalized.
Elizabeth Yardley is a professor of criminology
at Birmingham City University.
She believes Zatoon had an ulterior motive
for courting her love rival so carefully.
She wants Nasreen on side.
She wants to be able to manipulate her.
She wants to be able to find out things
that she can use against her.
So, they continue to be in touch
and they actually get mobile phones
and they save each other's numbers
in these phones under pseudonyms.
Zatoon is always looking to the future.
She's wanting a future with Tanveer
which is monogamous and which is exclusive.
This strange set up took another bizarre twist.
Zatoon knew that if she was to have Tanveer all to herself,
she'd need to break his relationship with his wife.
So this is quite sophisticated.
It's quite a high level of manipulation
that's going on here.
Once Zatoon was confident
that she had Nasreen under her influence,
she began to sow the seeds of suspicion.
You can see in the text messages that pass between them,
he's referring to Zatoon as a psycho.
There was always a ticking time bomb going off in this situation.
There was never going to be a moment
when she got what she wanted,
because Tanveer was just not going to give that to her.
Zatoon had tried emotionally
blackmailing Tanveer into leaving Nasreen.
It was time to change strategy to get Nasreen to dump Tanveer.
At some point, Zatoon started sending text messages
that contained sexual images
of her and Tanveer together to Nasreen.
Zatoon is becoming increasingly desperate,
and she wants to drive a wedge between Tanveer and Nasreen.
So, she sends a sexually explicit video
of Tanveer to Nasreen.
The purpose of the video was clearly to upset Nasreen
and to build some kind of a division between the couple.
In fact, Zatoon's manipulation
backfired spectacularly.
Tanveer went absolutely mad when he discovered what had happened.
He banned his wife Nasreen
from ever talking to Zatoon again.
And he says to Zatoon, I never want to see you again,
that's it, it's done, it's over.
He's had enough of his relationship with this woman.
Zatoon had underestimated
Tanveer's love for his wife Nasreen
and perhaps overestimated his affection for her.
With all her efforts falling to nothing,
she realized that he would never leave his wife.
I think this is the point at which Zatoon realizes
that she is not a priority for Tanveer.
She has only ever been an option to him.
And now he's decided actually I'm going to leave this.
Tanveer may have thought he had the power
to end his relationship with Zatoon Bibi.
She had other ideas.
She could have felt quite sad at the breakdown of the relationship.
She could have felt quite angry
about the breakdown of the relationship.
She could also have felt quite anxious
about the breakdown of the relationship,
because she was being confronted with the thing that she's lost.
It was more than she could tolerate and accept.
She made a plan.
When he decides to leave,
I think this sets off something incredibly toxic in Zatoon.
Zatoon decides that if she can't have Tanveer Iqbal,
no one will, he must die.
Once Zatoon had come to the conclusion
that the relationship with Tanveer was going nowhere
and needed to be ended, the next question for her
would have been how to end it.
Rather than trying to control Tanveer
by keeping him in the relationship with her,
she decides to destroy him for leaving it.
Sunday, January 31st, 2016,
the day after Tanveer's 33rd birthday.
Zatoon began texting him, begging him.
She wanted forgiveness.
She knows what buttons to push, what things to say to him.
So, she says things like, "I'm sorry.
"I promise that I'll obey you.
"I won't get in touch with Nasreen again,
we'll keep this all separate."
Zatoon invited Tanveer
to her Bartley Green home.
A place that he'd visited before countless times,
a place where he'd seen the two children
they had together to spend time with them.
She contacted Tanveer and said look,
we haven't celebrated your birthday, and your two children,
they want you to have a birthday cake
and will you come to my house?
We'll have a little birthday party.
As he left for a shift at work,
Tanveer told Nasreen he would be going to see Zatoon.
He wouldn't be home until late.
Nasreen wakes up the next day
and discovers that Tanveer is not in the house.
Family were concerned.
Yeah, it was out of character for him not to return home.
So the family, his brothers contacted the police
to report him as a missing person.
No investigation was immediately launched.
When a man in his 30s doesn't come home,
it is rarely a cause for concern.
Our normal protocol is if it's an adult
and there's no suspicious circumstances
and there are no other, you know, concerning factors,
we will just wait to see what happens
and see if the person returns home
sort of within 24 hours or so.
And in this case, there was no alarming features.
There was nothing that suggested
that any harm would come to Tanveer.
His wife Nasreen, however,
was getting desperate.
Knowing that Tanveer had intended to see Zatoon the previous evening,
she dug out her mobile phone.
She phoned Zatoon and asked her, have you seen him?
Zatoon said "no, he didn't come. He wasn't here."
And Zatoon says, "I have no idea where he is.
I haven't seen him."
The evening of 31st January, 2016,
and Tanveer Iqbal, not home as expected,
the following morning still no sign.
What had happened?
The police would soon be tracking Tanveer's movements.
They were able to track Tanveer's car
right to Zatoon's door.
Questions were soon being asked.
What was the reason for the unusual behavior of Gul Nawaz?
We actually had CCTV imagery of Gul Nawaz
buying some cleaning products in a local Poundland store.
Why would calls reveal that Zatoon Bibi
was leaning on her son, Khashim, asking him to lie?
What was the truth behind an intrigue of sex, lies,
security tapes,
and the mystery of a missing man, Tanveer Iqbal?
Initially, the police had not been too disturbed
by Tanveer Iqbal's disappearance.
There was no reason to think that anything untoward
had happened to him because he appeared
to be a happy, family man, part of a family business
with a healthy relationship with all of his family members.
But as the hours passed,
police became deeply concerned,
more so when family members reported
that they had found Tanveer's car.
His own car was a Renault Clio, and that was found
not too far away from his home address.
It was found parked on Portland Road facing the wrong way.
And when they open the car...
It was on the Monday morning after his disappearance
that the grim discovery was made.
Inside the boot was his body wrapped in a cardboard box.
Really undignified end to this man's life.
It was almost like dumping a piece of trash.
You know, I'm getting rid of this.
I'm just going to put it in this old box
and tape up this old box and forget about it.
And that is literally what they did with this individual.
One of the first steps as any lead investigator is
to secure and preserve evidence.
That evidence showed Tanveer found
in a wrapped cardboard box,
tied with a nylon rope and bound with silver duct tape.
The pathologist's evidence was that Tanveer
had died because of the use of a ligature around his neck
and a pressure had been applied.
In other words, in common language,
he'd been strangled to death.
And when we look at that particular method,
it's a way of watching the life drain from somebody,
so people who use that method in killing their victims
are people who enjoy those feelings of power and control
and being the person who is in charge
of whether this person gets to live or die.
So, it's very meaningful, it's very significant as a method.
It appeared that the same nylon rope
that was used to wrap the cardboard box
was used to kill Tanveer.
It would take a strong assailant
or more than one person to do that.
And the other remarkable feature was the driver's seat
was really far forward to the steering wheel,
really close to the steering wheel,
indicating that whoever had disposed of the vehicle there
was probably small or quite short in height.
It was a puzzle, it was a murder investigation.
Tanveer, a man in the prime of his life,
had been overpowered and strangled.
The investigation rapidly scaled up.
We will speak to immediate witnesses,
we'll look for witnesses in the area,
we'll seek to resolve any forensic opportunities
that can be achieved immediately,
and we'll also look for any CCTV opportunities that may exist.
The focus was very much around the family,
around focusing upon building a good relationship
with the family in order to get as much information
from them as we could.
And also then looking at Tanveer's life in general
and looking at what his lifestyle was
and who his friends were.
And that's when of course we learned
about the relationship with Zatoon Bibi.
Now for any investigating officer,
this is really significant.
This is a distinct flashing beacon that needs attention.
They will want to see whether this illicit relationship
has any association with his murder.
When you're dealing with a murder inquiry
and you hear of a second relationship
or a third relationship within a marriage,
you certainly would consider that to be something that's worthy of interest.
And I would consider it as a red flag,
something that needs closer attention.
Although there were red flags
about Tanveer's two families,
Paul Joyce was treading carefully.
Zatoon Bibi never jumped out as a suspect immediately
to me as the lead investigator on this case.
And it was only as we sort of edged into the investigation,
a number of days, in where my mind
was sort of focused upon Zatoon.
My kind of natural senses were telling me that
she had more to do with this than was initially evident.
In the hunt for the driver of the Renault Clio,
she fitted the bill.
Zatoon is short, a little over five feet tall,
and the position of the car seat suggested a short person
had been the last to drive Tanveer's car.
That fact suggested other lines of inquiry
with Zatoon a person of interest.
She couldn't have done this on her own.
And from the very early stages, to me,
it was obvious that somebody must've helped her.
For example, a very small female couldn't pick up a 13 stone male,
couldn't probably overpower a young, fit,
healthy male on her own.
Detectives looked for more CCTV footage.
CCTV played a major part in showing and painting
the picture of exactly what happened to Tanveer
in the moments leading up to his death.
Police already knew that Tanveer intended
to visit Zatoon's house that Sunday afternoon.
They did not know the role that her teenage son, Khashim,
and her husband Gul Nawaz were about to play in murder.
The CCTV from the neighboring house was very revealing.
5:30 pm Sunday evening, a Vauxhall Zafira pulls up
at the Zatoon Bibi's home.
Two males and a female can be seen
taking things out of the boot.
Who were the two men?
It showed that Zatoon had turned up with her husband
and her son not long before Tanveer arrived.
We see on CCTV footage that Zatoon, Gul Nawaz, and Kashim
get out of the car and they go inside.
Kashim, Zatoon's teenage son.
An hour later, Tanveer Iqbal arrives at the property
in his Renault Clio.
They were able to track Tanveer's car
right to Zatoon's door.
He's probably feeling quite kind of upbeat.
He thinks he's getting this little life on the side
back on his terms, just the way that he wants things.
Another hour passes.
At around 7:30 pm, someone emerges from the house,
turns Tanveer's Clio around,
and reverses it up to the front door.
Then you see a large object being loaded into the boot,
and then you've got the boot being closed by Zatoon,
and then the vehicle is driven off,
followed by a family vehicle.
And who we believed at the time was her son and her husband.
From that moment onwards it was clear that Zatoon,
her husband, and the teenage boy that they had together
were going to be the prime suspects for this murder.
The CCTV from the neighbor's house wasn't
the only useful footage
that detectives found that night.
Street cameras picked up more vital evidence
about Zatoon and the two men.
They left that house in convoy and took the car to Edgbaston,
where Zatoon parked it up and left it unlocked.
We were able to identify some CCTV that showed a female
walking away from the deposition site
on the night of the vehicle being dropped off.
And minutes later, she is captured on camera again.
She left the car on the street and then went off
and called Gul Nawaz to come and pick her up.
So he came, picked her up, and then took her back home.
That was when the investigation started to come alive for me.
We start to build a compelling, evidential case against Zatoon.
And not just Zatoon.
Her husband Gul and their 15-year-old son Kashim were
the others confirmed as those on the CCTV footage.
Detective Inspector Paul Joyce felt
he was getting to the truth of what had happened
to the man in the boot, Tanveer Iqbal.
The CCTV strategy as well was widened out
to local department stores, shops,
et cetera in the local area.
The trawl for CCTV picks up Gul Nawaz.
We actually had CCTV imagery of Gul Nawaz
buying some cleaning products in a local Poundland store.
Gul Nawaz bought rope and some duct tape.
He was buying things like cleaning products,
bleach, rubber gloves.
They see that he's buying these items
that are very suspicious.
And so in that way, the police were able
to build up a picture of two prime suspects,
and it was only later that the evidence came out
that Kashim was there as well from the CCTV.
Had the two men been buying a kill kit?
Did officers have enough to arrest Zatoon Bibi,
mother to Kashim, wife to Gul, and lover to Tanveer Iqbal?
And what lengths would Zatoon go to
in order to avoid a conviction for murder?
She was effectively feeding her son the story
that she wanted him to tell at trial.
Zatoon Bibi continually throughout the trial
blamed everybody else and never took
any personal responsibility for any of the plans herself.
I think she simply saw him as a disposable henchman.
He was a means to an end here.
Was Gul Nawaz about to be framed for murder?
There was plenty of CCTV footage to back up
the investigators' theory of what had happened to Tanveer.
He had been killed sometime between Sunday afternoon
and 7:30 pm on January 31st
and in the house owned by Zatoon Bibi.
Forensic evidence came next.
We were able to recover some DNA evidence
from within the box where Tanveer was prepared and wrapped
after he'd been killed, and we were able to show
and attribute that DNA back to Gul Nawaz.
The DNA on that tape showed that both Gul
and the teenage son had been involved.
This isn't a case of really criminally sophisticated individuals.
This is a case of people getting involved in something
that they really do not know how to cover up.
Gul Nawaz, the very man whose life
had been turned upside down by his wife's affair,
agreed to the plot to kill Tanveer.
Tanveer's mobile phone history was analyzed.
You know, the last person that he called,
the last contact he had, the last time he used the internet,
and all these kinds of stuff.
It's extremely painstaking and long winded,
but it's very, very successful in terms of yielding
that final product around being able
to trace somebody's steps.
It paints quite a compelling picture
of where somebody is at a certain time.
Tanveer's phone placed him at Zatoon's house.
Meanwhile, the phones of the other suspects
gave away their movements.
The mobile phone belonging to her ex-husband Gul and her son,
they happen to be in the same location.
On February 8th,
a week after Tanveer Iqbal's body had been found
in the boot of his abandoned car,
his lover, Zatoon Bibi, was arrested
and taken to Smethwick police station for questioning.
She didn't really cooperate very much with the officers
and really failed and refused to answer
any of the questions.
Her husband, Gul Nawaz, was also arrested,
but he denied any involvement in Tanveer's murder
and was released the next day.
More than two weeks later, as the evidence mounted,
Gul was arrested again, along with his son Kashim.
Under questioning, all three had denied any knowledge
of what had happened to Tanveer.
It was clear to the police
that somebody was lying to them and probably everyone was.
Later that day, after questioning father and son,
police charged them and Zatoon Bibi with murder.
She had enlisted the support of her husband
in order to commit these horrible acts against Tanveer.
The Crown Prosecution case was
that Zatoon Bibi, a scorned lover, had set the murder up.
She was intent on getting rid of Tanveer.
And there is no doubt
that she was the orchestrator
of the plan that was then hatched to kill Tanveer.
There is no way that she could have killed him by herself.
She's a woman, he's a strapping young man.
She needed to recruit somebody.
And the men she chose for the job,
her school age son and the husband she had left.
She decided to persuade the very man
whose life had been ruined by her relationship with Tanveer
to help her to get rid of him.
It was Gul who had collected the murder kit.
I think Zatoon was very deliberate in sending him out
to pick up these things, because it looks like he is the killer.
Even behind bars, Zatoon continued
to attempt to manipulate the situation for her own benefit.
All three were in different establishments,
Zatoon obviously in a women's prison,
her husband in a adult male prison,
and the son in a teenage place of incarceration.
What then transpired over the next few months was that
Zatoon was phoning her son on a regular basis.
Jo Sidhu represented Zatoon Bibi in court
at her subsequent trial for murder.
He had a special insight into her state of mind.
She was excitable and vociferous
in every conversation that I had with her.
It seemed on the face of it that she was calling him
just to give him emotional motherly support,
but in fact, those calls were recorded.
At her trial the transcripts of those calls
were revealed to the jury, and they told their own story.
There was a huge amount of telephone traffic
passing between Zatoon and Kashim
in which what she was doing
was trying to persuade her son
to blame his father.
Zatoon's plan was for her 15-year-old son, Kashim,
to deny that the two of them
had even been in the room when Tanveer was murdered.
Actually, what Zatoon was doing
was prepping her son to give a false story.
That false story would make her look innocent
and the son too, but would point the finger at Gul Nawaz.
What you see there is the manipulative Zatoon Bibi
manipulating her son to come up with a story
in which all of the blame for what happened
is put on Kashim's father, her ex-husband.
The teenager was initially reluctant
to go along with his mother's lies.
What you see in the recorded calls from the prison
is Kashim saying "I'm not going to do it.
I am not going to say my father killed your lover."
Slowly, mother bent Son to her will.
He was slowly worn down by his mother manipulating him,
emotionally blackmailing him, saying, "there is a way
"for you and me to avoid being convicted of murder.
"Do you want to be convicted of murder?
"If we stick together and we tell this story,
your father will go to prison, but not you or me."
The story that Zatoon presented
to the outside world was that Tanveer's death
was nothing to do with her.
In all my meetings with Zatoon Bibi,
both before the trial and during it,
she vehemently protested her innocence.
She was affronted about the fact
that she was even being accused of having killed Tanveer.
When this case goes to trial, everybody is blaming everybody else,
but I think Zatoon has never wanted
to take responsibility for it.
And even in the planning, the run-up to the murder, that's very evident.
Zatoon fought her corner.
She claimed that she was being stitched up.
She said that she was an innocent victim
of an abusive husband.
With her son Kashim backing up the story,
was it possible that Zatoon could succeed
in shifting all the blame onto her husband Gul?
I represented Gul Nawaz in this murder trial
that took place at Birmingham Crown Court.
Very rarely did he let his guard down.
It was obvious that there was something
that he was keeping to himself.
And I think that was probably
because he knew what had really happened.
So what had really happened at the house
in Bartley Green that night in January 2016?
The prosecution's case was that this
was entirely a set up, that the three people,
mother, father, and teenage son had laid in wait.
It was an ambush.
That when Tanveer came in, he was jumped.
We do know that Tanveer was a young, fit, strong young man.
He wouldn't have easily been overpowered.
He would have certainly fought to defend himself.
I strongly suspect that as he walked into the address,
he was probably ambushed and he was probably strangled
and quite quickly by the husband and by the son.
It wasn't just the prosecution
that cast doubt on Zatoon's version of events.
When I cross examined her on behalf of Gul Nawaz,
it became clear that she was telling lies.
This murder trial was a classic cutthroat,
but not just between two people, but two people on one.
Zatoon stood shoulder to shoulder
with her 15-year-old son against the dad.
They wanted to just blame each other.
I felt sorry for Kashim because he was this young man,
a child who'd been effectively recruited by his mother,
and perhaps to a lesser extent by his father,
to get involved in this killing.
Here he was torn between his parents,
having got himself into a situation
because his mother recruited him.
He'd been manipulated and told all sorts of lies
in order to get him on board
And there in court he found himself mute,
he couldn't speak. What could he say?
If he went into the witness box,
he'd have to point the finger at his father,
and he knew that wasn't true.
So, he stayed where he sat in the dock
and listened to his two parents tearing each other apart.
On September 20th, 2016,
twelve jurors at Birmingham Crown Court reached their verdict.
Not surprisingly,
the jury did not believe
Zatoon Bibi's account of what had actually happened.
She demonstrated herself to be an inveterate liar.
Spurned mistress Zatoon Bibi,
her husband Gul Nawaz, and their son Kashim
were found guilty of murdering Tanveer Iqbal.
It's certainly my view that she was the organizer.
She was able to enlist the support of her family,
of her husband, her son, in order to lure
Tanveer to his death, then kill him in a coldblooded fashion.
In a case like this where the murder was clearly planned,
somebody was lured to their death,
this was always going to be a sentence
that was a very long sentence.
Zatoon and Gul were jailed for life.
Their son was told he would serve a minimum of just six years.
There was a definite hierarchy within this group,
and Zatoon Bibi was at the top of it.
The sentence was determined by law for murder,
it's life imprisonment with a minimum term.
The judge decided that in Zatoon's case,
he would give her a minimum of 27 years.
What we had here with Zatoon Bibi was
an individual that was extremely calculated.
She was extremely manipulative in her approach
to the planning and preparation of this murder.
She was certainly behind luring Tanveer
to his death on the Sunday night.
During sentencing, the judge singled out
Zatoon's callousness for special mention.
His observation as a judge was that her selfishness
and manipulative nature were truly breathtaking.
He said that one of the most appalling features of the case
was the fact that she had recruited her 15-year-old son.
He said that was particularly awful.
He was effectively taken in by his parents
and influenced by them-- perhaps had no choice
but to go along with it.
Manipulative, vengeful, and murderous,
Zatoon Bibi made her married lover pay the ultimate price
for trying to dump her.
It was always clear that Tanveer wouldn't leave his wife
and his family set-up for Zatoon Bibi,
so my view is that this was a crime based on her jealousy.
If I can't have him, nobody's going to have him.
That I think was ultimately the reason
why she took that extreme step of having him killed.
That was why she planned and executed this murder.
She claimed that in fact she was the victim
of a miscarriage of justice.
She's never accepted that she was guilty.
She doesn't feel remorse.
She doesn't feel empathy for other people.
The fact that she's got her family involved in this
is incredibly telling about this individual.
Tanveer Iqbal wasn't the only victim
of Zatoon Bibi's crime.
Not only has she murdered her lover,
the person she's been having a relationship with for years,
but this man is the father of some of her children.
So, she has deprived some of her children of their father.
And the very act of doing that, in itself, is
such a huge, significant thing.
She was able to mobilize her family members
in order to make it happen
and to try and bring everybody together to commit the gruesome act
of luring somebody to their death,
killing them in cold blood, and then disposing of their body.