Schoolboy, 15, sets fire to ex-girlfriend's house

Thunderscreech · #1 07-12-2010, 06:16 AM

and what's more, he had to use Google to tell him how to do it...

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An obsessed schoolboy who killed his ex-girlfriend and her sister in a house fire because she broke up with him was jailed for at least 23 years today.

Akmol Miah was only 14 when he targeted 15 year-old Maleha Masud and her family in revenge when she ended their three-month relationship.

When she refused to get back together and told her mother he was trying to blackmail her, Miah ran a Google search on 'how to burn someone's house down'.

Jailed: Akmol Miah, then 14, and his cousin Shihabuddin Choudhury poured petrol through the letterbox of Maleha Masud's home, killing her and her sister Miah and his cousin Shihabuddin Choudhury, 21, then poured petrol through the front letterbox as the family slept at their home in Tooting, south London.

Maleha's mother Rubina, 55, and older brother Zain, 24, managed to jump to safety from a window and brother Junaid, 18, was lucky to survive after being rescued by firefighters.

Both Maleha and her sister Nabiha, 21, were also pulled from the blaze but later died in hospital.

Miah, who is now 15, celebrated his success by using a picture of the burnt house as his computer screensaver.

Both Miah and Choudhury were convicted of two counts of murder and three of attempted murder by an Old Bailey jury in May.

Judge Christopher Moss QC sentenced Miah to detention at her Majesty's pleasure and Choudhury to life imprisonment.

He ordered Miah to serve at least 23 years before being considered for release and Choudhury 21 years.

The judge said: 'These dreadful events happened for no better reason than you Akmol Miah wanted to inflict revenge on Maleha and her family for the fact Maleha had ended your relationship.

'Were it not for a passer-by you might well have succeeded in wiping out the entire family.

'The plan was devised by you Akmol Miah. I am faced with a boy who at the age of 14 planned and carried out this murderous act and is still in denial.'

Judge Morris told Choudhury he was a 'willing participant' in the attack.

In a statement read to the court, Maleha's mother Rubina said: 'The impact this tragic act has had on my life is very heard to express.

'There are no words that can highlight the crippling grief, pain and agony that I am experiencing.

'This attack on my home has robbed me of my two daughters. Maleha was my baby, the youngest of the family. She had her life ahead of her. We will never know what she would have chosen to do in her life.

Charred remains: The damage caused to the Masud family home
'They [Miah and Choudhury] have given me a life sentence. I find it so hard to comprehend the chain of events that led to my daughter's death. What did we do to deserve this? What caused such hate in the perpetrators to carry out such a damaging, blatantly evil cold-hearted act?'

The court heard the family is still living in temporary accommodation while their home is rebuilt.

Maleha had met the 14-year-old while out with friends in Tooting Broadway.

Miah quickly became obsessed with her and contacted her 1,679 times by texts or telephone calls in the 87 days before the attack in the early hours of June 21 last year.

The boy was also jealous of her friendships with other men and Maleha repeatedly broke off the relationship only to reunite with him the next day.

One of his texts read: 'I don't want to share you with anyone else. I want you all to myself. You are my dream girl, I'm not letting you go. I need a girl like you, I need your hand... you I can see having my baby.'

Another read: 'No more crying, no more tears, I want nothing but love for you. I don't think I can live without you. I just love you too much, you just think about the future, our future.'

Maleha had kept the relationship secret from her mother because it had not been approved by her traditional Muslim family, but Miah tried to exploit her fear by threatening to tell her mother if they did not stay together.

On June 17, after a final break-up, he called the family home and told Rubina Masud: 'She has finished with me, she has loads of friends, take the phone off her.

'You know when Maleha was studying she was talking to me and when she was using the computer she was talking to me?'

Two days later he called again and Maleha handed the phone to her mother in tears and confessed: 'Mum he has been threatening me.'

Mrs Masud heard the boy say 'I love her' repeatedly but told him that 'such things were not done in their religion' and hung up.

Realising he was going to lose her, Miah told Maleha he was going to '**** her family up' and told her: 'Watch what I'm going to do.'

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ouse-fire.html

tom once dead · #2 07-12-2010, 06:25 AM

wowee.

i_got_a_mohawk · #3 07-12-2010, 07:05 AM

They were a few years older and only one fatality, but a similarish thing happened over here recently. Well it was more direct, not burning the house down, and not much over a 30 minute drive from my hometown:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...6908-21943757/

People are ****.

Marco A. Mayer · #4 07-12-2010, 08:53 AM

He won't survive in jail.

bassteban · #5 07-12-2010, 08:56 AM

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He won't survive in jail.

I'm alright w/this. Not happy, mind you- just not of the opinion that this person should be breathing now. He used a pic of the burned-down house as his screensaver.

i_got_a_mohawk · #6 07-12-2010, 09:12 AM

While I understand that sentiment, death is too easy a way out for people like that.

Southpaw5 · #7 07-12-2010, 09:25 AM

The sisters won't let this one be. He deserves whatever is done to him in prison...

sarcastro83 · #8 07-12-2010, 09:30 AM

Ugh... knowing that people like this exist really upsets me.

SteveC · #9 07-12-2010, 09:43 AM

He deserves whatever happens to him and more. If you don't want to do the time...

bassteban · #10 07-12-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

While I understand that sentiment, death is too easy a way out for people like that.

Agreed. The death sentence he imposed on the girl and her family was undeserved.

**Staccato** · #11 07-12-2010, 09:53 AM

A serial killer in training, and now he's a caged animal...

My juvenile relationships (or steady girlfriends) were important to me at that age, too.
And this kid decided to kill his -ex girlfriend's family. So unbelievably-out of control.

i_got_a_mohawk · #12 07-12-2010, 09:56 AM

It's also the fact that his 21 year old cousin, thought this was a good idea and went along and helped him. ***!?!

billhilly66 · #13 07-12-2010, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

It's also the fact that his 21 year old cousin, thought this was a good idea and went along and helped him. ***!?!

Good point. How do you get talked into something like that?

groooooove · #14 07-12-2010, 10:26 AM

cant wait to see who he kills in 23 years when hes out. he'll be how old, 38?

theres no doubt in my mind that kid is going to end other lives- or at the least, ruin them, when hes free. its one thing for a kid to get mixed up in a robbery or something like that, but to willingly attempt to kill an entire family, (over something we've all went through at 15 and got over in about a week) and be proud of the photo of their destroyed home- is really out of this would. he shouldent ever get out. and, although its an undeserved "easy way out," if he were given a death sentance, it would almost certainly save other lives.

really disturbing article.

UncleFluffy · #15 07-12-2010, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by groooooove

cant wait to see who he kills in 23 years when hes out. he'll be how old, 38?

"Detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure" means "you're in for at least the minimum and then staying in until we choose to let you out". It's usually given to juvenile offenders in lieu of a life sentence to allow for the possibility of change but keeps the ability to put them inside for life if necessary.

basstotheface · #16 07-12-2010, 11:43 AM

I don't think the UK gives out death sentences, but they sure as hell should.

rtslinger · #17 07-12-2010, 12:06 PM

That animal needs to be chained up in the families basement and tortured on a daily basis
yeah I know I am a little harsh but if I had that happen to my kid there would not be enough pieces left of you to figure out not who you are but, what you were!

drteeth · #18 07-12-2010, 12:11 PM

Always horrible to see what humans are capable of.

rarisgod · #19 07-12-2010, 12:37 PM

This world is a sick place.

Webtroll · #20 07-12-2010, 02:53 PM

Stuff like this makes me wonder what the against-death-penalty are thinking about. Shoot him, bury him, move on with life. If he ever gets out and does anything to draw the attention of the victim's family what then? How many murders are committed by ex murderers? I know there are idiots who take comments like these and try to warp them to mean I think any crime or murder shoud be punichable by execution which is not true at all. Guys like this one and in mohawk's link just don't deserve another chance in my book. These killings were heinous and intentional, the perps deserve no less.