{"id":3873,"date":"2009-06-22T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/22\/luton-man-gets-21-years-for-murder\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:36:39","slug":"luton-man-gets-21-years-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/22\/luton-man-gets-21-years-for-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton man gets 21 years for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Zahir Ahmed beat girlfriend to death, court told<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"260\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ZahirAhmed_180x232.jpg\"\/>A man who was found guilty of the murder of Czech National Klara Prokopcova has been sentenced to 21-years at Luton Crown Court.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Zahir Ahmed, of Selborune Road, Luton, was sentenced on Thursday 18 June. During the trial the court heard how Klara, while out with Ahmed and a friend celebrating her 26th birthday, on 10 November 2007, had left a nightclub in Dunstable and was seriously assaulted by Ahmed. The 34-year-old then visited several places looking to leave Klara to die, but returned her home where he stage managed an accident before calling an ambulance. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Sean O\u2019Neil, of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: \u201cThis was a violent domestic murder of a Czech National who came to this country in search of a better life and who deserved protection, but her life tragically ended after Ahmed brutally beat her.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cDuring the investigation it has become clear that Ahmed developed his relationship with Klara over a two year period and systematically abused her. This abuse caused her to become completely afraid of him. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe jury could see through Ahmed\u2019s endeavours to hide what he had done. I am satisfied that justice has prevailed and I know that Klara\u2019s family are grateful that justice has been received.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He continued: \u201cThroughout this investigation we have been helped by members of the public, and members of the taxi driving community, and I would like to thank them for the courage they have shown.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zahir Ahmed beat girlfriend to death, court told A man who was found guilty of the murder of Czech National Klara Prokopcova has been sentenced to 21-years at Luton Crown Court. &#13; Zahir Ahmed, of Selborune Road, Luton, was sentenced on Thursday 18 June. During the trial the court heard how Klara, while out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}