Rotten Mango - #302: TikToker Killed 2 People To Help Hide Her Mom’s Affair & Save Her Career

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Ansreen’s daughter was a rising TikToker that was gaining followers by the day. May loved showcasing her dancing, fashion, and even religion on her platform to inspire others. Even Ansreen was getting attention from joining May in some dancing TikToks. And with fame - comes people who want to cross boundaries to be with you. Ansreen had what she deemed a stalker. He was far from harmless. He had videos of her that would end her life, marriage, family, and even her daughter’s career if they were ever leaked. She and her daughter would team up to make sure that never happened. Even if meant killing two people to keep their secret. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bramble Barabing Barabu Mahek, who went by May online, was this TikTok influencer. She's 24. Her mom is 44 and she's very important to this story, so just remember that. And the two of them, they would make these really cute dancing videos together, dancing to the trendiest song, that's kind of what she got known for. Everyone loved this mother and daughter dynamic where both of them are dancing to the trends.

People would comment things like, oh my God, they look more like sisters than they look like mother and daughter. She was live streaming one day, so 24-year-old May is live streaming and her mom is scrolling through the comments with her. They're listening to the chat, answering viewers' questions,

and one comment made by a clearly fake troll account said, tell your mom to call me. May laughed it off. She's thinking, this is a troll who's insinuating that my mom is hot and is like, hey, have her call me. But if you watched carefully, you might have seen Unsrean, the mom, her face twitch.

Just a little. She might have let out a nervous little chuckle and excused herself to the restroom where she would nervously put her phone to her ear. Hello? Is it you again? Please, please don't do that. If you keep doing that I'm gonna go to the police. Don't involve my daughter like this. Please stop. But he wouldn't stop. He would keep going. This man would find Enzreen's husband's phone number and text him. Do you want to see videos of your wife? Enzreen felt her heart race when she found these messages on

her husband's phone. Thank God her husband thought it was an online troll. I mean, given that they're a pretty public family on social media, he never responded to thinking, oh, one of these creeps finally got my number. But if this got out, it would ruin her marriage, her whole family, and even her daughter's whole TikTok career. May had a wholesome, religious, family-oriented image on social media, and now Enzreen, her mom, was going to ruin it all. She looked down at the new text message on her phone

from him, and it read, One click and I ruined your life. And Sreen and her daughter, May, would do anything to prevent that, even if it meant killing two people to keep their secrets safe. What does One click mean? He's gonna post whatever that video is. He's gonna send it to her husband. He's gonna send it to the is. He's gonna send it to her high-spin. He's gonna send it to the world

Make it go viral one click and her whole TikTok career her daughter's TikTok career would come crumbling down And so would her family so would her social standing As always full show notes are available at rottonminglepodcast.com This is a pretty recent case that happened in the United Kingdom, but let's just get into it because there's a lot. There is a platform called Azar. It's very reminiscent to me of Omecle. Like you use it to randomly video chat strangers from all over the world, but Azar really focuses on marketing and marketing the fact that they have a lot of preferences that you can set for who you're gonna be matched with

You can narrow it down to geographical location potentially even age all these things a lot of people actually use it to date Because you can't get catfished. It's kind of a cool icebreaker instead of going through this like uncomfortable texting phase You just see their face immediately. You see if you have connection phase, you just see their face immediately, you see if you have connection. It was also really popular during the pandemic because people just wanted some form of human connection. And Sreen's niece was over at the house using Azar. So, and Sreen is the mom.

And May, the Tik Toker is out and about. Her niece is video calling a guy through the app. He looked like he was in his 20s. He lived in UK and that's really all answering knew about him as of right now She's just doing some chores and listening to this conversation and the niece She's half bragging half passionately telling him about herself. Oh, and her cousin her cousin Mahek was famous on TikTok So she's telling him what her account is, what her Instagram is. Oh my God, and then this is my heck's mom.

This is my mom. She's in the videos. Actually, sometimes she's the star. So while my heck alone would only get 50,000 views when Ensreen, her mom, was in there dancing with her, they would get like 300,000 views. That's a big difference. So she's like shoving the phone in Ensreen's face

like say hi on TNSreen. This is a, what was your name again? So keep nice to meet you. Ensureen said she smiled and waved and I was that. She went back to doing whatever she was doing. I mean, these are little kids having conversations. Why should it bother her? Why should it matter to her? A lot of take talkers became famous during the pandemic and may really want it to be one of them. She was doing all the things that they were doing. She was dancing to the trendiest songs, which looking back at a lot of these take talks.

It feels like a fever dream. Doja Cat, though, why don't you say so dance? Like all the viral McDonald's hacks through the drive-thrues, using the Zoom filter to lip sync to songs and like cover your face and then it goes to the next person when they uncover their face. Yeah, we do all of that too. Yes, it's like a fever dream.

So make quick college to do this. She really, really, really, really, really, really wanted to be a tiktoker. She would recruit her brother in her videos, her mom, her dad. Her dad didn't make as much of a frequent appearance, but he's in a few videos. Honestly, he seems very likable. He just seems really sweet, kind of like a dad. Maybe he talks a little too much about things that young people don't care about, but he's cute.

So they have this really adorable wholesome family image, and her caption with her mom would say things like, having an elite relationship with your mom. So blessed to have her in my life, my mother, best friend, and sister all in one. To the woman who birthed me, I appreciate you so much. May claim to be a devout Muslim. She posted a lot about her faith on TikTok as well, but her primary interest, her ultimate goal, was to be a fashion influencer. She said, I would post my fashion outfits on Instagram, companies would send me clothing,

I would tag them on my platform, and that's how I would get paid. She was also invited to promote restaurants, bars, specifically hook-alanges, and she would always bring her mom with her. So half the reason being, her family was a little bit more conservative, so her dad just always worried about her. And the other half was, her mom is her best friend. So there are the types that would giggle and whisper in a corner of the house as if they're like two best friends having a slumber party instead of mom and daughter living together

in the same house. It was kind of endearing, like the brother and the dad would choke around, they'd roll their eyes out, there they go again plotting something. May convinced her mom to make her own Instagram account. With all the views that are coming in, I mean it's gonna go over to her Instagram, it's gonna ripple over and then maybe she can start doing promotions too. Honestly, it sounds like May is telling her, mom it's an opportunity to just do it, it's gonna be great. is telling her, Mom, it's an opportunity to just do it, it's going to be great. And maybe that's true, but it's clear that there is a side of answering that really wants this life. She was 44.

Her whole life she had been sheltered for 44 years. Her dream growing up was to be a flight attendant. This is like when she was in her teenage years. But instead her parents said, actually, we found you a husband. You're going to marry this man and start having children. So that's what she did. She never had this phase of being young and experimenting. She just went straight from being a teenager to being a housewife. There was no crazy phase, no clubbing phase, no drunk phase. I mean, her whole life was great on paper. Arguably, she had everything that she would ever need.

Her husband's fantastic. He's sweet, he's hardworking, he's a provider. But there's this, there's this new thrill that she's having from going to bars, being around these young people, and they all have this, this energy. They all dress so fun, they're so carefree. They would even say, oh my God, Ensreen, you're one of us. You're told, Milf. You look so good tonight.

Enzarin was excited about this new one. She's like, oh my gosh, do I really? Like, that's crazy. Stop it. So she agreed. She made her own Instagram account and religiously checked her messages. She saw someone new, had quite literally slid into her DMs and his name was said keep and she's like, where do I remember that from? Why is it ringing about? It's the guy from Azar. It was an innocent enough DM but I'm sure Enzreen knew what Zakeb was doing in her messages and she responds, the two start talking every single day. Every single thing. They would talk on the phone up to five times a day. If Enzreen's husband wasn't home, so he would always be on the phone in the background. It's

like one of those high school relationships. Like so, they're talking romantically? Yes. Like a genuine relationship. Even if they aren't actively talking, he's just on the phone listening while she's cleaning, napping, doing all these things. He's always there. And it seems like because they all live together, May knew that her mom was always on the phone with this guy, but I don't think that she knew from the get-go that it was an affair. She claimed that she just thought, oh, well, they're friends, and I didn't think much of it.

So EndsRain, she would get off on Sikib's company. He's conventionally attractive, he's young, he's fit, he's also very obsessed with her, and it just felt nice. And the age gap, I mean, it was there, but it was in borderline illegal, right? How does he? He claimed he was 27 and she's 44 so that's a 17 year age gap. Which is huge, but you know 27 isn't 18, right? Yeah. Well, he was 18. He lied. Whoa. Yeah. He was 18 when they started talking

But he was not her sugar baby or anything he would actually go out of his way to spend money on ends rain If she was at a hook-alounge helping her daughter promote an event He would show up to the event surprise her by paying for her Show up to random restaurants surprise her by paying the tap He would send gifts to the house that she would have to open in, surprise her by paying the tap. He would send gifts to the house that she would have to open in front of her family and her husband would be like, oh, what is that from? I bought it.

I bought it online. Oh, he totally forgot. I ordered this. That's why I look surprised. Eventually the relationship turned sexual. Yeah. They didn't see each other a lot because they lived in different towns and Enzreen was also you know, married with two kids, so she didn't want to draw suspicion on herself

But when they did see each other, it was just getting more and more explicit Even during video calls, they would be showing each other a lot of themselves and engaging in sexual activities Frans Zreen, it was more fun, more exhilarating, more scandalous, sexual. This was her second affair since being married. Her first one was another man who was married with children. So the two of them, they were equals.

In the sense it's like, hey, you're married, you've got kids, I'm married, I've got kids. We don't want to mess it up. You want to stay in your marriage, you want to stay with your family? I want to stay with my marriage. I want to stay with my family. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The guy's married? No, this was her first affair. So this is, the key is her second affair. I see. So I'm saying with her first affair, there was this mutual agreement that both had the same situation. Yeah. They're both like, we're literally doing

this because we're evil people and we want to like, treat on our partners, but we don't want them to find out. We don't want to divorce our partners and leave our children and be with one another Yeah It was just an escape But was to keep is a little bit different So keep wasn't married. He didn't have kids. He wasn't even 27 He lied. He was 18 when they met and he was absolutely in love with Enzarin. She was his endgame.

After two years of this affair, Enzarin wanted to move on. Meets up with Sikhi by the hotel and tells him, look, I just want to focus on my marriage right now. I feel guilty to my husband, to my kids, and I don't think I can do it anymore. They did not break up that night. They slept together. And then the next morning, it was like nothing happened. So he started texting Ensureen clinging to her, and now that he knew she wanted out, he

was doing everything to hold on to her. He would call her five to ten times a day, ask her, what are you doing? Who are you with? Where are you going? What's next? Did you drop your husband today? Ensureen claimed that he would get angry with her if she didn't tell him everything.

And he started to get what she describes as controlling. If he felt Enzreen was pulling away, he would send her pictures of designer goods that were on route to her house. And she claims, I kept telling him, I don't want those, I didn't need those, this was so unnecessary, but he wouldn't listen, he just kept buying me gifts.

Sometimes he would even just randomly uber eats her food. And Zreen said, she felt like, if I accept these gifts, he would feel like we're together. But if I don't accept the gifts, he would get angry. Finally, December of 2021, and Zreen bit the bullet and broke up with Siky for good, she's like, I can't do it anymore. There's nothing you can say I'm not gonna meet you at another hotel like I'm done. I'm done. She expected curse words. Non-stop angry, phone calls, angry emails. She was prepared for it, but she hoped, you know, if I don't engage, if I don't respond, he's gonna get bored, he's gonna move on. But instead,

Ensreen looks at her phone and there were explicit pictures and videos of her and Sikkib during their rendezvous. Some screenshots of her during their explicit face time calls. He bombarded her with messages like, if you don't respond, I'm gonna send these to your husband. Fine, you want these to go public? I'll make them go viral. Ensreen felt like there was only one way out of this.

Dead man don't post. Soon enough, Seki would be found dead in a burning car on the side of the road. Ensreen's daughter, May, the TikToker. She had no idea who was making deep fakes of her, but it was ruining her life right now. There were explicit videos that looked so realistic. I mean, someone was out there targeting her. It felt especially hurtful because May had built her career on being this religious, multifaceted woman, and not that you can't do both, right? But these photos were deepfaked. They were deepfaked, nude photos and videos of her out there, and even her friends were sending them to her

like, hey, what's going on? Originally, she had no idea it was her mom's fault. Her mom was the reason that these deep-faked photos of her were circulating the internet. December of 2021, the same month that Enzreen broke up with Sikip, she sits May down and tells her everything. I don't think she did it to just get it off her chest. I think she did it to get help. And Zareen Fellej had no other options left. I mean, she was trapped. Said first, Mae blows up on her.

She's mad at her mom. First of all, you cheated on my dad. But more than that, she's pacing around the living room and she starts getting angrier and angrier. But that anger is turning towards sick keep. How dare he think that he can get away with blackmailing us? and she starts getting angrier and angrier, but that anger is turning towards sick heap. How dare he think that he can get away with blackmailing us? He was the ultimate threat, the threat to her family,

but also the threat to her career, and she would do anything to protect everything that she had worked so hard for. She comforted her mom. This girl was determined, she told her mom, I will take care of it, don't worry, he's not gonna fuck with us. She said, I'll get him jumped by guys he won't know what day it is.

May set into motion a plan that will land eight people in jail. The first thing she did was call her best friend, Rican Carwan. Hello, I'm being blackmailed. What? I need your help. The psycho guy is spreading deep fakes of me and I think he's gonna try and hurt me. Do something to me. I think as long as I pay him off, he will back off, but I don't want to be the one to talk to him about it. Yeah, no problem. Tell me what you need to do. So Rikina agreed to be the middleman. He was gonna be the one that talked to Sikheb for May He had no idea that May's mom was involved in any of this and that she was the one being blackmailed

I guess May doesn't trust him that much, right? and Recon reached out to Sikheb who stated that he wanted $3,800 to back off from the family So this is where the game of Monopoly starts So this is where the game of Monopoly starts. There are eight main players. All of them trying to win the game without ending up in jail. And when it comes to pick their game piece,

you know, Monopoly, there's the dog, there's like the cat, there iron, the wheelbarrow, right? They would all choose the car. And this would be the last game that they ever play for a very, very long time. Ensuring in May, reach out to SikEEP. They ask him, do you want to meet up with us so that we can pay you finally so we can end all of this?

Meet us at the Tesco parking lot. Tesco is like a supermarket. Parking that at 130. No one else would be there. It's 130 AM. He said, yeah, bring all $3,800. That is all the money that I spent on answering during this affair.

He, Sekki, did not know that eight people were gonna show up to this meeting. The Monopoly Eight is what they'll be dubbed by authorities. The Monopoly Eight split up into two cars, a blue car, and then an Audi TT. Now, both May and Ensreen were in the Audi, and I think it would get too technical to explain where each person was before the crime and then how they got picked up for the crime. It's not necessarily important.

Just know that some of them were at a hook-alounge playing monopoly, and that would be their alibi for the rest of the night. Which is what do you mean? We're just playing monopoly. Yeah. There was one friend, Muhammad, who came super late. He got a call to come hang out at around 12 30 a.m. Which is just an hour before the murder.

He was already in bed at this point, but he got up, went to meet with his buddies. And a lot of people still feel like Muhammad had no clue what he was getting into. Like if anyone in this group, because this becomes like a point of argument later, which is how many people of this group actually knew what they were about to do. So the argument is, if anyone in this group had no idea what was going on, maybe it's my habit because he really wasn't even supposed to be there. They just called him out of nowhere and he thought, yeah, monopoly. Okay, let's play.

Yeah, why do they call him? It's so weird. He ends up in the Audi with Enzreen, May and Recon. He is the fourth person in the Audi and the other four are in the blue sedan. The group all drive to the Tesco where they briefly park next to each other, but they separate because the key is going to get there and they don't want two cars park next to each other in this relatively quieter parking lot because, you know, maybe he'll be like, uh, why are there two cars there?

That's weird. Some of them would later argue, they just thought, May and Ensreen were going to meet up with someone, pick up something real quick, and we wanted to give them space. That's all. Even Recon and Muhammad got out of the Audi and stood out of sight so that if the key were to walk up to the Audi, it looks like just May and Ensreen were meeting with him. There was nobody else watching him. So they got out the car so they can have their own space to talk?

No the theory is that six of them, so the two that got out of the Audi plus the four in the blue stand were probably going to jump him in the parking lot. Is the theory? Because nobody had cash on them. They're like, hey, meet us to, so I can pay you $3,800. Got it. Nobody had any money.

Okay, I see. When Sequib gets to the Tesco, everyone realizes a few things. First of all, he's not alone. Sequib was known to hate driving. He just didn't like it. That night, he asked all of his friends to drive him to a Tesco in another town,

because they're meeting in a mutual area. They don't want to meet in town A, because that's where Sequib leaves lives, and they don't want to meet in town B, because that's where May lives. So they agreed on town C. And all of them were like, what? No.

They all had excuses on why they couldn't drive him. I mean, I imagine some of them just straight up didn't want to because it was inconvenient. Technically, Sikhi could drive himself. But his good friend Hashim, he was the type to always want to help a friend. So he said, you know, I guess if you really need a ride, yes, you know what, get in. Sure. I'll do it. I'll do it. He had no idea that Seki was blackmailing for someone for money and he was driving him there to pick up the funds. He just thought Seki needed to get something

from this specific Tesco and meet someone for something innocent and thought, maybe it'll be fun, we could listen to music, jam out in the car, catch up during the ride. Hashiin pulls up to the Tesco and it seems like Sekiin realized at this moment that he was being set up. I don't know.

Something in him was like, no, I gotta go. We can't do this. Hashim and Tsukib pull out of the Tesco parking lot, avoiding a physical altercation, but a blue sedan starts following them. And then an Audi is right behind them, right behind the blue sedan. Muhammad said, once we were all following this random silver car on the road, may called to keep, may call someone because Muhammad is in the car with them. May said something weird.

She said, watch what I do to you. At 121 AM, a shell gas station CCTV captures three cars racing down the A46 at a high speed. It looks like the blue sedan is chasing Sikib and Hashim and the Audi is following the blue sedan. They were going up to like a hundred miles per hour during the chase. It looks dangerous. Looking at the footage, it can easily be interpreted as the blue sedan trying to run Hashim and Sikib off the road.

So right after the phone call with May and the keep ends, the one where she allegedly tells them, see what I do you, watch what I do to you. The keep calls 999 using Hashim's phone. His phone was at a battery. Now the parents of the victims have requested the police not release the actual call so they release the transcript instead. And because we don't have the actual audio, it's really hard to know if we're interpreting the tone correctly, but the transcript is so frustrating to read. So keep calls 911 to tell them that he and his good friend Hashim, Hashim is driving, are being followed by two cars

down the road. He said, I'm being followed by two vehicles. You're being followed by two vehicles? Yes, I'm being followed by two vehicles. You're being followed by two vehicles? Yes, I'm being followed by two vehicles and right now, how do you know you're being followed? They're trying to block me and they're trying to block me in. Can you get to a police station? I can't get to a police station right now, I need help. What I'm saying is, when you say you can't get to a police station, why can't you get to a police station?

I can't get to a police station. Why can't you get to a police station? I can't get to a police station. Why not? There's guys following me. They've got Bala Klavasan. Bala Klavas are the masks the ski masks basically with the eyes cut out. Oh my gosh Right, are you in a vehicle or are you the operator goes to ask where the key is and he finally says they're trying to kill me I'm going to die. Calm yourself down a moment okay? They're trying to ram me off the road, these two vehicles. At one point the operator sounds like they don't believe Sikib, so they keep asking for where they're headed and Sikib tells them I can't tell you because my phone is dead. Incinuating my phone is dead, so I can't look up the navigation right now,

and obviously I can't look it up on the phone that I'm calling you with because I'm on the phone with you. Yeah. But the operator is just like, your phone's not dead, because I'm talking to you. Oh my gosh.

So keep tries to tell them that he needs help urgently and tries to tell them his exact location and the operator says, so down a moment for me. You've given me a lot of information very quickly. I've gone past Radcliffe College and I'm getting rammed off the road. You're not getting rammed off the road. They're trying to hit the vehicle. They're hitting on the side.

And you've gone past Radcliffe Road. Radcliffe College, I just told you I've gone past that now. Please, I just need help. I'm in danger. I understand that. I think you're going a different way than the way that you think you're going. I passed a speed camera right now. They're hitting the car, they're hitting the back of the car really fast. They're trying to ram us off the road. Please I'm begging you. Yeah, I'm arranging help for you right now. Oh my god. And it said in the transcript that the sound of a crash can be heard and the line cuts off. Oh my gosh.

At 1.32 a.m., a car rams into Hashim and Sikib sending their cars skidding sideways towards a barrier, hit the barrier, flew into the air, hit a tree, split in half and instantly burst into flames. The two other cars, the blue sedan and the Audi, the Monopoly 8, just kept driving along the highway before they stopped at a nearby lot. Two people were seen on CCTV cameras getting out and kind of inspecting the cars. It looks like they're looking for any obvious signs of damage. They get back in the car and make a U-turn and start driving towards the direction that they came. They're probably kind of trying to check what's going on right. All eight of them would drive past the burning car.

This is around 1.30 a.m. everything else is dark the car on fire stands out like a giant bonfire. They all drive past it, not a single one of them call for help, nobody calls emergency services. It was later said, and Sreen slumped in her seat and was crying uncontrollably while May tried to comfort her as they drove past the car. The blue sedan in the Audi park in a neighborhood, everyone gets out, and seven of them would start walking around the neighborhood for about an hour. And this walk will

become a huge point of contention on the trial. CCTV footage shows them walking as if you know when you're when you're younger and you go out with your friends or they're at your house and you're like, you know what? Should we just like giggle gaggle and walk around the neighborhood? That's kind of what this looks like. Getting some fresh nighttime air after a big dinner and you're walking it off. Who stayed back? The only person that didn't go is Muhammad. He immediately left. So that's another reason people believe that he's innocent because right afterwards, he's like, oh my God, I'm leaving.

The body language is rather nonchalant. Some say that they can see one of them having a hard time, but overall, it's not one of those mental breakdown walks if you've ever had them. Authorities will later speculate that they were walking up and cleaning up their story, getting on the same page of what really happened that night. Now, Mohammed, like I said, was the only one that walks off from the group before the walk.

And right afterwards, there was another person that goes home. Okay, so what about the rest? The rest, they get back into the cars and they're dropped off one by one. Until the drivers of the car finally go to their house. Meanwhile, at the crime scene, the fire was so big that it was only after firefighters managed to put out the blaze that they could even get close enough to realize there are two bodies in here. 21-year-olds Sakeb Hussein and 21-year-old Hashim Ijaz Zudin were dead. It is stated that both of them died upon impact in the collision. It was really severe, so the car split into, and the engine of the car was detached from the car itself.

Both of them had passed before the fire started. And it was pretty easy for investigators to figure out, okay, this car did not crash on its own. They pulled CCTV cameras nearby, as well as the keys 999 call, and there was indeed a high-speed chase going on Caramage showed two cars chasing after the keybun hashim the calls were immediately identified Tracked through the cars were immediately identified track through the automatic number plate recognition system That they have in a fleet of cop cars as well as helicopters were used to make the first initial arrest

And even if they hadn't done that the Audi was literally registered in trace back to May's home address. Another big piece of evidence that the police had was a phone pinged, traveling in that Audi that had been involved in this high-speed chase. So they tracked that phone number, went to the address that it belonged to, and what do you know? It's the same address that the Audi trace backs to. Officers show up and they arrest Maze, teenage brother. Was he there? Yeah, he was at the, no, he wasn't in the car,

he was at home, and he just gets arrested on charges of double homicide. Imagine waking up in your PJs, and you're getting arrested for double homicide. He was freaking out. So he wasn't in the car at all. No, okay. And he's freaking out. Like, wasn't in the car at all. No. Okay. And he's freaking out.

Like, what are you talking about, guys? I don't even have my license officer. I don't even have a car. How can I possibly be involved in a car accident? Like, you've got the wrong person. Very quickly, the officers realized, yeah, we got the wrong guy. So they let him go and they informed him, okay, well,

sorry, that was our mistake. Well, did you at least catch the person who actually did it? Yes, your mom and your sister. His mom's phone was registered under his name. And just like that, the Bukari House fell apart. February 11th of 2022, authorities show up at the Bukari Residence to now question Enzreen and May. They are both seen on body chemical age wearing pajamas.

They look so calm. May is giving the police a completely made up story about where she had been last night. And she said, you know, I did see this weird chase that was happening last night, but I didn't get involved. Later on in this interrogation room, she has these really long acrylic nails and she keeps showing the cups how the chase had happened. It was just really odd. I don't

know if it's the deal. So she's saying that she's not the one chasing. No. She's describing something else. She's describing like a fast and the furious scene that she's not a part of. And she keeps putting, okay, her demeanor. And I'm not saying this to make light of this section, but this demeanor was so odd. And again, I don't know if it's just the visual aspect of her nails. She's in this gray track suit.

She just looks so young and just like a tiktok girl. What she keeps doing motions with her hands, very animated, and like this card to this. And it's just the way that she's casually explaining explaining it makes you feel like she's explaining the parking lot situation at a trader Joe's 3 p.m. Tuesday where nothing happens. She talks about how she was in the car with her mom and this car starts beating up and then cut in the lane in front of her. She had no idea who this was in this car but she said you know I always keep a distance from the car in front of me because I had been driving for four years, and that's just something that I always do.

She's talking about a blue car. Yeah. She said that there was this blue car that seemed to be agitating a silver car, and it just felt like they were trying to race her something. She said, I want to, I want nothing to do with it. And I turned to my mom, and I remember saying in the car, like, what is this car trying to do? And her mom just kept telling her to stay out of it

and, quote, it's got nothing to do with you, May. And she's using her hands to be like, then the silver car pulled up, like, using her hands as if they're cars. And she keeps driving, so she claims. And she says that she saw the blue car agitating the silver car in front of her, trying to come up to its side and ram into it.

And she said, I kept looking at my mom and I said, Mom, what's going on here? What is wrong? Like, I don't know if they're drunk. What are they trying to do in general? Her mom said again, just leave it, May. You're not involved. You don't know what's going on. You just go straight to where we're going and we leave it. While going 100 miles an hour. Yeah. In the footage of the interrogation,

May looks super calm and honestly convinced of her own stories, which is the crazy part. She doesn't even, you know when you see someone and you're like, okay, this person is lying and it's, you get secondhand embarrassment. And you're like, uh, she's so confident. It's crazy because, you know, there's a few. And there's cameras everywhere. There's camera exactly. It's not something you know there's a of you and there's cameras everywhere. There's camera exactly. It's not something that you can just make up a story and think you can get away with it like yeah. Like by yourself. Exactly. There's a of you. There's so much evidence.

And then just throwing the blue sedan under the bus like you think the blue sedan occupants are gonna be like yeah that's exactly what happened. She's right. I mean she acts like she has no idea what's going on. She acts like she has no idea who's in any of these cars. So I've reached the mom and my mother goes, mom, what is going on? What is wrong with, I don't know if they're drunk, or what are they trying to do to this blue car in general? So my mom was like, like I said, leave it.

You're not involved, you don't know what's going on. You just go straight on and leave it. I was okay, that's fine. In the interrogation footage, the police, they just let her keep talking. They knew that she was digging herself deep in lies. They just let her keep talking. The motive for the crime seemed really clear from the get-go. I mean, to the officers. Sekibe's family kept telling officers. Sekibe was having an affair with an older woman that he called ANZ. ANZ, ANZ. Ceeb even introduced her to his sister at one point. So authorities

were clear of the connection between ANZ and Ceeb early on in this investigation. They said, ANZ, and made down, and they say, can we take your phones? Can we look at your phones? Not that you really have a choice, but they were not cooperative. May lied about the past code to her phone and both of them denied any sort of affair. Ensreen had deleted every single picture of Sequib from her phone, but detectives were able to pull Sequib's iPhone Cloud albums, where pictures upon pictures upon videos of Sequib

and Ensreen cuddling and doing other things, indicating that on at least 11 separate occasions and Serene and Sikib had been together. They found the phone logs that showed the defendants, the two drivers of the blue sedan, and the Audi calling each other non-stop during the night of the crash, as well as May and Sikib were on the phone right before the crash. So very quickly, the eight people were arrested. So in the blue car, you had 22-year-old Natasha actor, 22-year-old Sennaf Gula Mustafa, 27-year-old Amir Jamal, and the driver of the blue sedan,

is 22-year-old Reyes Jamal. In the Audi, we've got 45-year-old and screen Bucari, the mom. 23-year-old May Bucari, the Tik Toker, 21-year-old Muhammad Patel, and the driver of that car was 28-year-old Rican Carwan. They were all charged with two counts of murder and all denied being responsible for the crash. At first, everyone in the blue car was like, what are you talking about?

I have no idea what you're talking about. We're just a group of friends that were driving to one of our buddy's houses, so we could finish our very intense lengthy game of monopoly. That's what we were doing. I mean, we did see something on fire on the side of the road, but that hadn't been to do with us. We were, I guess you could say, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Originally, May, stuck to her story for a little while

before deciding, okay, this is dumb, this is a move point. And eventually, she would admit, yes, okay, fine. My mom had an affair and the kid was going after our family safety and wellbeing and yeah, okay, he kept threatening to show up at our house to do, who knows what, I just wanted to make sure that my mom was protected. We were just gonna give him the money that night at Tesco and make sure that we weren't

alone. That's why I asked my friend, Rick Khan, Karwan to come with us. She said, I asked Rick Khan and I said I was being blackmailed and harassed and I told him to message Sykib's as one brother to another brother. She said, we just wanted to show him what kind of person he was at the time and just put an end to it. But Seki was demanding. He was demanding money and all this and I told him, you're not getting your money Seki, we need to talk first. But then he said he was going to come to my house. So I suggested we meet

at another location, a neutral location to give him the money. And yeah, I just wanted Recon to come with us because it would give us peace of mind. I didn't want my mom and I to go alone. She said she was worried that she could not attack them. She said as for the blue sedan, full of other people, they were close with Rekon, but she never really hung out with them like that. She thinks Rekon called them as backup just in case. She said, you know, I was even annoyed.

I was even annoyed that Muhammad was in our car. It was weird. I was like, I didn't understand why he was there in the first place. Recon invited him. May said she did meet up with Sequipe that night. She knew that he was in that car, but she had no idea what was gonna happen

with the blue car and Sequipe's friend's car, which clearly doesn't make any sense. Clearly, they're chasing him in the car. It like it's one thing. Yeah, and they talk on the phone the whole time. Yeah. And they know what they're doing. If you're going a hundred miles per hour,

after another car switching lanes to go after that car, you really can't say you don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Clearly, there's CCTV footage of it. Basically, she's telling the police, you've got to believe me this time, because I'm not lying this time. I'm innocent She said the only reason she lied was because she was embarrassed of her mom having an affair and she didn't want the news to find out

Eventually she would even try arguing that Sikhi wanted to unalive himself and forced Hashim to crash the con purpose and the authorities were Flabbergasted by all of this if I'm not mistaken I believe Hashim is Muslim. And to say that about a victim who is Muslim and all of the, it's just so sick, you know, it's just disrespectful upon disrespectful. The authorities are looking at her like, so are you suggesting that the keep wanted to take

his own life by causing the crash and killed his friend Hashim too while he was at it? Yes. Wow, come on. That seems unreasonable. Well, he's the type, you know, he sent messages where he tried to gain attention from my mom by saying that he was going to hurt himself. He's psychotic.

The authorities didn't believe her and moved forward with a trial for seven of them. One person gets off. Oh yeah, we're gonna get to that. The trial wasn't mess. I mean the first trial was deemed a mistrial. Prosecutors said it was just a behemoth to conquer. First of all they had seven defendants, most of them had slightly or completely different versions of events from that night. We had 200 hours of footage the night of the murder, more than 40 locations, 300 statements that they took in to just organize this evidence a nightmare. And a huge question to the prosecutors was, out of the friend groups, so excluding May

and her mom and probably excluding the two drivers, how many of the other five knew what was going on? Or were they just hanging out with friends got in a car for a little ride, and suddenly they're on trial for murder? What would you do if your friend is suddenly going a hundred miles per hour out of nowhere, risking your life, and they won't slow down, even though you keep telling them to slow down?

They cause a crash, What do you do? Not saying that they're innocent, but just kind of toying with the idea. They are the same killers. Yes. So if that were the case, could they have done something to stop the drivers from what they were doing? Could they have done something afterwards? Is that what we're arguing maybe they could have gone to the cops?

Another thing that just added, and another layer of complexity, was Tsikki, but this point, was almost put on trial. Same with Hashim. So Hashim was the friend that was driving truly had nothing to do with any of those. He's just giving a buddy a ride out of the goodness of his heart, but he was the driver, and he was found to have cannabis in his body

during the autopsy. So of course, the defense would take this and run with it, saying that he was found to have cannabis in his body during the autopsy. So of course the defense would take this and run with it saying that he was driving recklessly. He caused the crash on his own. This was all his fault. And then Sikheb was kind of put on trial too. But this one I think is a bit more understandable of why it needed to be talked about in the trial.

The cord injury were presented with evidence of Sikheb's pattern of behavior prior to his death. Apparently, there was another woman that he made threats to when she tried to break up with him. So I know this woman is not in any way connected to the defendant, so it doesn't seem like she has some sort of incentive or motivation to lie for them. She said she met Sykib at a club during a night out.

She had a boyfriend, but he wouldn't stop trying to get her number. So she just gave it to him thinking, uh, I'll just ignore him later. But he kept texting and she let him know, nicely, hey, I have a boyfriend. I have a boyfriend, like, sorry, we're just kind of kept asking me, so I gave you my number, but I have a boyfriend. He called her 15 to 20 times a day, threatening to smash her car up and go to her house, and then during one call, he got very, quote, extremely sexually suggestive. The woman reached out to the local police three times because she was terrified of the keep. It was overall not a great look.

The jury were also presented with the keeps text messages to Ensureen leading up to the incident. He said things like, if I don't get a call, I'll do what really has to be done, even though I don't get a call, I'll do what really has to be done even though I don't want to You taking me for a dickhead not for long Your son's gonna see them videos now of us in the hotel, okay? Don't make me fuck everything up Don't say I didn't tell you I'm giving you a last chance. I'm gonna send them now. Your son is gonna see them videos and pictures Are you gonna call me back or shall I make your husband mad?

I'll tell him everything and make all your pics and videos go viral right now. I'm telling how all the girls were in on it with you. Saying like, May and her friends knew. A lot of these text messages were shown without context to the jury, but another one read, you're messing around with me? Yo, what the fuck? Just pick up one second now. You're trying to set me up?

Sikhi also sent messages to Ensureen calling her a dumb slut and stated he had nothing to lose and quote, when I'm mad, I'm mad. One click of fingers and I can break your marriage in every other single thing. It was also alleged in court that Sikhi would threaten to harm himself if she did not pick up the phone. But the harassment was mutually exchanged to a degree. Other text messages showed May threatening Sikib by saying things like, I'm sorry, but this year you'll be gone Sikib.

I've got every threat that you've ever sent my mom. I know what games you're playing. Carry on speaking to her like this, and you'll see movement soon. Another one was from May to Endsrain, so from daughter to mom, she said, I'll soon get him jumped by guys. Leave it to me, he's trying to scare you. Another one was, don't worry mom, whatever it is, we will sort it out. It was mentioned in court that between August 2021 and February 2022, Sikib had reached

out to Endsrain 1,702 times, while Ensuring in the same period only reached out 214 times. Of course, any trial is gonna be really hard for the victims, family, and friends, especially for Hashim. I mean, imagine his family sitting there. They're like, he had nothing to do with this

and now he's basically being put on trial and they're bringing up cannabis, they're trying to slander his character by saying he does drugs Yeah, and for Sikheb I'm sure it was really hard for his parents as well But a lot of netizens felt for ends rene's husband and son during the trial It seems like the family was just broken apart And Syrians husband hadn't visited And Sreen during her arrest, but he did show up for parts of the trial.

So whether it was for closure, whether it was to support his daughter or to support his daughter and his wife, it's unclear, but all of the affair was aired out. And Sreen's first affair was also aired out during the trial. I mean, I imagine it was hard for the husband, but more so, the son is also a big victim in this. He was only a teenager when all of this went down. Prosecutors stated they believed May, Ensuring, and Recon were plotting for a way to get rid of Sekheb. I don't know why Recon was in on it. Maybe he was just a right or die type of friend, or maybe he was going to get something out of it, but it just isn't clear to prosecutors. Prosecutors believe

that they were the main masterminds of this and they would lorse to keep to the Tesco under the guise of giving him the money, but they were gonna jump him and bush him. Maybe drive him off the road. It's unclear how much of this they actually planned. It's up for debate. A lot of netizens said, going at that speed, that's intent to kill. It doesn't matter. Like when you're going a hundred miles per hour chasing someone, trying to ram them off the road, you're trying to kill someone. And Sreen and her daughter, May's defense, on the other hand, were, was kind of crazy. They were victims to a crazy stalker. And while they made some shady, bad

choices, Cikib was controlling and terrifying, and they had no other choice essentially. They tried to use footage of answering, walking around after the murder, with her co-defendants, you know how they parked in the residential neighborhood. They argue that she looks like a woman in shock. And Zreen and Mae claimed that they just wanted to talk to Cikib that night, and nothing else. And about Mae's text, her own mom saying, like, don't worry, we're going to jump the guy. They argued, no, no, no, we were just exaggerating.

During the trial, remember how he said there were seven defendants, Muhammad, the one that came late and left before the walk. He was the star witness out of the monopoly aid. He was the one that was in tried for the crime. And now some netizens think that he's innocent. Others say that he's guilty, but he's cooperating with the police to save himself. It's unclear. But he gives the police what they want. He corroborates the story that is consistent with Seckeeps 999 call. He states that Seckeeps was being

chased at high speeds. He states that they were all wearing balaclavas that night, just like Cikib had mentioned in the phone call. He said that he was the last one to join the group. He had no idea what was going on. That they mentioned that they were going to jump a guy. He said he was so scared. He didn't know what he had gotten into. He was so terrified.

And while they were going like a hundred miles per hour, he heard two phone calls that night. The first one was May, the tiktok heard, telling Sikib, what would I do to you? Then they hung up and recon he was driving the Audi. He called the other driver of the blue car, race, and he said, quote, ram into him. Shortly before the car has shim and Sikib were in, skid it off the road, killing them two men instantly. Now some netizens think that Muhammad should also be in jail and that it seems like he's

conveniently taking himself out of the crime. He's like, no, I genuinely had no idea what was going on. Some people think that he probably knew and he's now taking this stance to get off easy. It's just, you know, netizens have a lot of feelings about this. All the other defendants minus the drivers, May and her mom, and Muhammad. The other five, they insisted they had absolutely no idea what was going on at any point, and these phone conversations never happened. They said, we were just going for a drive.

We had no idea who was in that car. We didn't know about the keep, or why even we went to Tesco. They said they had no idea what was going on. Like, May said she needed to pick up something from a guy. We were just playing monopoly one second, and then got into the car to switch locations, ended up being arrested for double homicide. They argued, we don't have lengthy criminal backgrounds.

We're ordinary people with jobs, or we're in school right now. We have families, we have normal lives. We did nothing to cover our tracks This is not a smart well thought out plan like why would we do this? If we knew what we were doing what in our right minds would make us want to kill these men for May and enshrined Some of the people in the blue car they weren't even friends with May. They have like a mutual Right, so why did they do that even the the driver of the blue car raised, he said,

I tried to break when the victim's car came up in front of me and I tried because I didn't want to hurt anyone. So he's saying that he was just trying to scare Sikhi so because he heard Rickon tell him about the black mailing and he was like, yeah, I guess we'll just scare the guy into stopping. Then he was saying, you know, it's actually the victim's car that was blocking us, not letting

either of us pass, they were instigating it. And it was just a high speed chase thing that spiraled out of control. To back up his claims, his attorney's brought in some CCTV footage that does show at times the blue car was getting dangerously close to the victim's car and the blue car is seen breaking. Yeah, because, you know, the blue, sometimes you, let's say you break check someone. You're just trying to like stop this madness. Yeah.

Yeah, what do you mean? Like, you know, I can totally see that. Why does that matter? Yeah. You drive away. Yeah. Like, you're trying to, you're trying to intimidate someone, right? You're following, you're tailgating them, you're trying to do something to them.

So. And they break check you. Of course, you're trying to do something to them. So. And they break, check you. Of course, you're not gonna slam into them. Exactly. Yeah. Leave the situation. Go home. And it seems like at one point, okay, like fine.

I guess we can try to see his side of the story, right? Make it make sense somehow. But then race was revealed to be a rapist. He was convicted last year of R-Wording a 17-year-old girl in his home. She stated she repeatedly told him no and tried to push him off of her any pinder down and assay her. The victim tried to enter life because of the trauma in PTSD. Also, he didn't have a driver's license the night that he was driving.

So the guy is all around a horrible person. So everything he's saying for netizens, it just went out the window. Many of the other defendants, they said, it just doesn't make sense for us to do this, like no sense at all. A mirror who was in the blue car, but not driving, his defense was, I was high out of my mind during that car chase. His lawyer argued, why would he get high if he was preparing for a murderous evening?

Other defendants had more interesting defenses. Natasha was the 22 year old in the blue car, and she said she had a crush on the blue car driver, Ray Ease, and she wanted him to fall for her. So she didn't want to make him mad by telling him to slow down too many times. She said she had no idea they were in a high-speed car chase at the time. She said and I quote, I thought it was boys just being boys driving like idiots. Also love when people say boys being boys but it's like a little crime. It's like criminals being criminals actually is the rather especially for this situation

more fitting. Fun fact Natasha had dreams of becoming a criminal defense attorney, so there's that. Sinath, also in the blue car, but not driving. He said his father was dying of cancer and he was the only one taking care of him. His dad cannot eat drink or even use the toilet without assistance. He said he would never risk not being there for his dad for people he doesn't even know, so how would that make sense? The only reason that he went out that night was to interact with people his age and get some comfort not being there for his dad, for people he doesn't even know, so how would that make sense? The only reason that he went out that night was to interact with people his age and get some comfort and escape out of his life because he just takes care of his dad all day.

And ultimately through this, Sinov's dad would die and he would not be present at the funeral. So this whole debate of who knew how much they planned, how much did they know ahead of time, is a huge argument still in this case even now after the trials are over and set and done with. Some argued it made no sense for these people to throw away their lives when none of them had skin in the game. It doesn't seem like they were promised anything specific from May or Recon because I feel like that would have been discovered during trial.

They didn't know Sequib. They didn't care if May's TikTok family, TikTok fellow part. They didn't care if May's family fell apart. Literally, they didn't seem to care for May or answering. So, some people argued, maybe this is a situation where they were just there for a fun night and it got roked into something else. But other people argued, these sound like people that were ready to jump a guy

for the thrill of it, not knowing they're gonna accidentally kill people. It's ended like they're down. They're like, yeah, let's get Balaklava's and jump a guy, T-Termalescen. It's thrilling, it's crazy. Maybe they felt like that was okay. Another supporting argument for that is on the phone with 999.

So Keith mentioned seeing the people in the car behind him wearing Bala Klavas. And Muhammad also mentioned it. So if they're not jumping him, if they're just playing monopoly, why would they have Bala Klavas? Why would they be going a hundred miles per hour chasing another car?

And then end up getting arrested and being like, why, we did nothing weirder out of the ordinary. We were just driving from one place to another in Bala Klavas. In the end, the jurors deliberated for more than 28 hours. And they came back with a verdict. And Zreen the mom, and May the tiktokker. Reyes, the driver of the blue car, and Rakan, the driver of the Audi. They were all found guilty of the murders of Hashim and Sikheep. May was sentenced to life in prison and she will serve

at least 31 years and 8 months. So if she gets out the earliest as possible, she will be 55 years old. Ensuring was sentenced to life in prison and is ordered to serve 26 years and 9 months. Reyes and Rekhan, the drivers, were both given life sentences. Reyes must serve at least 36 years, probably because he was driving without a license. And Recon must serve 26 years and 10 months. As for Sanoff, Amir, and Natasha, they were found not guilty of murder,

but guilty of manslaughter. And they were given between 11 to 14 years. Muhammad had no charges. I will say I have seen some discourse online that their prison sentences are too harsh, but I'm curious to know, what are your thoughts? After the trial, the victim's family spoke out. Zikib's family said Zikib was a kind, compassionate, caring, sensible man.

Their family had been shattered and they're glad to get some closure. Hashim's uncle came out to state, Hashim never used to enjoy driving himself. So whenever Hashim went out, he would always ask, who's driving? You're driving! He went home and got his car to drive his friend even though he hated driving. He's just a very active soul. One of his models or philosophies in life, which he put on his social media all the time,

was, if I can make some laugh or smile, my job is done for the day. Hashim's uncle said the only reason he gave Sikhi but right, even though he hated driving was just, he wanted a help of friend. And I have seen Netizen State that Sikb was not the perfect victim, not that there ever is a perfect victim. And just like the whole general mindset that someone needs to be a perfect victim is kind of dangerous, you know, Netizen is saying he was doing some scary things. And obviously he needs to be punished for doing very specific scary things.

But I wouldn't say Ensureen had no choices. It's almost insinuating Ensureen was in a situation of self-defense, which this situation was not a clear cut self-defense thing. And while I agree again, Sykib's actions were a little odd and he might have needed to be punished for it had he been alive, she could have just gone to the police though. It seems like every choice that she made was to prevent facing the consequences of her own actions. And I really think that's telling, like she would rather kill, put her own daughter's life at risk to kill someone with her rather than face the consequences of her actions.

She straight up said, I couldn't go to the police when he was blackmailing me because I was scared officers would come to my house and my family would find out about the affair and the videos. Exactly. It's so bizarre. It's so bizarre to me when people are willing to kill someone to cover up a much smaller wrong. Instead of people finding out you cheated, now you kill someone and you're gonna go to jail forever.

And people found out you cheated not once but twice because you killed two people like what? I don't even think that's comparable to an affair. The logic is not logic king. But I guess that's what they say. Place stupid games, win stupid prizes, and if you're playing monopoly, there is always a chance that you're gonna end up in jail. What are your thoughts on this case? Please leave it in the comments, please stay safe, and I'll see you guys on Wednesday for the main episode. Bye.