Updated: 12 May 2021, 18:04
A LAW graduate shot dead in Pakistan may have been murdered by a hitman hired by two rich kids of Instagram who pestered her for sex, police said.
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Zahir Jadoon, 26, allegedly orchestrated the supposed contract killing with his pal after Mayra resisted their advancesCredit: Facebook
Cops now believe wealthy suspects Saad Butt, 28, and Zahir Jadoon, 26, allegedly recruited a contract killer to execute Mayra after she resisted their advances.
After a nationwide manhunt was launched, Butt turned himself in to authorities on Friday, while Jadoon s whereabouts remain unknown. It’s a cold-blooded murder but neither of the accused were present at the crime scene, a police source told The Times.
Brit woman shot dead in Pakistan by hitman hired by psycho rich kids of Instagram
Police are investigating if two suspects hired a hitman after Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, was found lying in a pool of blood in her apartment after she was shot in the neck and shoulder
Law graduate Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, was found dead lying in a pool of blood in her apartment a week ago after she was shot in the neck and shoulder (Image: Linkedin)
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Probe reveals slain girl sought police protection
Victim filed compliant that she feared for her life from one of her friends
LAHORE:
Maira Zulfiqar, a Pakistani-British national who was found dead a few days back in her bedroom, had filed a complaint with the police one of her friends.
Police said the victim in her complaint before police had said Saad Butt one day barged into her house and forced her to accompany her in his car at gunpoint. In a place in Gulberg and Fategarh, he tried to sexually assault her.
However, after she resisted and made hue and cry on which nearby people gathered and the suspect fled. She further mentioned in her complaint that she feared for her life from the suspect.
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LAHORE: Initial investigations into the murder of a 26-year-old British national Pakistani girl have suggested that the two persons allegedly known to the victim had shot her dead at her rented house in the Defence-B police limits the other day.
Police have registered an FIR against the nominated accused persons, collected forensic evidence from the crime scene and started investigations into the incident.
Sources in investigation wing of Lahore police told The News that the girl was also holding citizenship of Belgium while her parentswere living in the UK. She was a law graduate from London.