News about Zafar Iqbal

More than 20 sexual predators are jailed for total of 346 years after eight young girls were raped, abused and trafficked in West Yorkshire

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 27, 2024
More than 20 'sexual predators' have been jailed for a total 346 years after eight young girls in West Yorkshire were raped, abused and trafficked over 13 years. The 24 men were arrested as part of Operation Tourway's discovery of their years-long campaign of abuse, which has been described as 'abhorrent in the extreme'. The West Yorkshire Police's investigation uncovered rape, sexual abuse and trafficking of eight girls in the North Kirklees area, including the towns of Batley and Dewsbury, between 1999 and 2012. Reporting restrictions on a series of five trials over two years were lifted on Friday after the sentencing of the last seven men at Leeds Crown Court, police confirmed on Saturday. Four of the men convicted in the series of trials received sentences of more than 20 years.

After the Gunners' lost head medic to Manchester United, Crystal Palace's head of sports medicine Zafar Iqbal moves to London rivals Arsenal ahead of next season

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 22, 2023
Zafar Iqbal, the head of sports medicine at Crystal Palace, is moving to Arsenal ahead of next season. This summer, the well-respected Iqbal will leave Selhurst Park, where he has spent eight years, for a similar position at Emirates Stadium. Arsenal were expected to drop out on the appointment of a new head of medicine, according to Mail Sport on Tuesday.

After a cab driver crashed head-on into her vehicle, a teen girl, 18, claims she was left scared and partially blind in one eye

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 15, 2023
Cassie Hooley, 18, was left terrified and blindfolded when taxi driver Zafar Iqbal, 64, ignored a Give Way sign in Sale, Cheshire, and crashed into the vehicle she was riding into. On the afternoon of January 21, the Iqbal pushed out of a side street into the direction of an upcoming Vauxhall Astra, which Miss Hooley was riding in with her boyfriend Iman Joorawan, 23, on the afternoon of January 21. As a result of the accident, she sustained horrific facial injuries and required 42 stitches. Miss Hooley wrote on Tiktok: "Not even a crash will prevent me from doing Tik Toks after Iqbal was sentenced to suspended prison at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday.' She has shared humourous Tiktok videos of herself and Mr Joorawan as they danced and jokingly referred to themselves as the 'walking dead' during her recovery period.

EXCLUSIVE: Sara Sharif's father must 'come forward and explain himself', 10-year-old girl's heartbroken mother says as murder detectives hunt for the 41-year-old, his partner and brother in Pakistan

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2023
A day before Sara Sharif's (left) body was discovered, Malik Urfan Sharif (inset left) left the UK with two other people. In the early hours of last Thursday morning, she was discovered dead at her father's house in Horsell, Surrey. Surrey Police are now investigating Ufran's murder, as well as his sister Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28. Olga Sharif (right) a mother from Sara, Poland, has spoken out to praise the police probe and specifically mention her ex-husband.

Sara Sharif's father, his companion, and brother have been found dead in Woking, and police are looking for him

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 18, 2023
Detectives probing Sara Sharif's murder in Woking last week are looking for her father (right) as well as his partner and brother, Surrey Police said. It comes as MailOnline exclusively revealed that local police are looking for Malik Uran Sharif, a 31-year-old Pakistani prince.

For 19 years, a husband who strangled his wife to death with a headcarf has been sentenced to 19 years in prison

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 19, 2022
Zafar Iqbal, a 62-year-old woman, throttled Naziat Khan, 38, with her own scarf in front of their three young children at their home in Norbury, south-west London, in August 2001, before fleeing to Pakistan. According to the Old Bailey, Iqbal carried out the murder "for no more reason" than that he would not face the cultural stigma that would ensue from his wife's request for a divorce. For the so-called 'honor killing' that occurred 21 years ago, Iqbal was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 19 years.

After hiding in Pakistan for 20 years, a man who strangled to death wife who wanted divorce faces life

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 9, 2022
Zafar Iqbal (left), a 61-year-old Pakistani journalist, was a fugitive of Pakistan for 20 years after he brutally murdered Naziat Khan (right), 38, at their home in Norbury, southwest London, in August 2001. Iqbal appeared at the Old Bailey wearing a prison-issued grey tracksuit, converting from HMP Wormwood Scrubs to admit murder. Iqbal married his wife and moved to Pakistan, where he would stay for 20 years before being extradited to the United Kingdom in September last year.