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Offender Database Ahmad Riyaz Khan

Ahmad Riyaz Khan

Alias

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Offences

Murder of a South Auckland woman in Otahuhu in August 2003

Victims

Gulshad Hussein

Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1981

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to a 19 year minimum non-parole term in October 2004
Eligible for parole from September 2022

Background
NZ Herald story here and here

Court of Appeal judgement here
From Dominion Post story 15th June 2005
The cruel and remorseless killing of a young woman who burned to death at an Auckland service station deserved the 19-year minimum sentence imposed, the Court of Appeal has ruled. In a decision issued yesterday, the court said Ahmad Riyaz Khan had to be jailed for at least 17 years because of the circumstances of the murder, and an extra two years was not clearly too much. Khan, 23, poured lighter fluid over Gulshad Banu Hussein and set her alight at the Otahuhu service station she managed. Video surveillance cameras recorded the killing.

Khan said the death had been an accident, but finally took responsibility in an interview with a probation officer after he was found guilty of murder. He had compounded the ordeal for Ms Hussein's family by threatening them at court, making a rude gesture to them after the verdict was read, and writing to them after the trial. The Court of Appeal said the level of cruelty in the way Ms Hussein was killed, and the ruthless and remorseless way Khan had carried it out and then stood by while others tried to help her, was significant. His criminality was compounded by his threatening, abusive and cruel behaviour to her family afterwards, which could be taken into account when setting the minimum sentence. Ms Hussein had briefly been friends with Khan and he persisted in trying to see her when she thought it was over.

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