27 June 2025, 14:54 | Updated: 27 June 2025, 15:46

By Flaminia Luck

Another day, another woman dead at the hands of men.

Kulsuma Akter, Claire Chick, Harshita Brella, Holly Bramley, Emma Patterson, Louise Hunt…the list goes on.

As a journalist you get used to these names. They’re women killed by their current or former partners whose stories made the news.

Today, the killer of Kulsuma Akter has been found guilty of her murder.

Her "violent, controlling" husband, Habibur Masum, stabbed her “at least 25 times” in a street in Bradford as she pushed their baby son in a pram.

He had tracked her down to the refuge she was living in to escape his abuse.

During the trial, their marriage has been described as an “abusive” relationship characterised by his jealousy, possessiveness and controlling behaviour."

In court, jurors heard how Kulsuma had left him before choosing to stay with her brother due to his behaviour.

In November 2023, he became jealous over a "completely innocuous" message she received from a male colleague, grabbing her face, slapping her........

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