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Bradford stabbing: Murder suspect was on bail for 'threats to kill' at time - Sky News

A man suspected of fatally stabbing a mother in Bradford city centre was on bail at the time for allegedly threatening to kill her, it has emerged.

West Yorkshire Police have launched a manhunt for Habibur Masum - who is wanted on suspicion of murdering 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter on Saturday.

According to the PA news agency, Masum was conditionally bailed in November after being charged with assaulting and threatening to kill Ms Akter - who is from Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Both offences were alleged to have happened in Manchester.

Court documents seen by PA say the 25-year-old man had pleaded not guilty to both offences at a hearing on 27 November and was ordered by Manchester Magistrates' Court not to contact Ms Akter.

Masum's bail conditions also prevented him from contacting a second unnamed person or visiting a particular address.

West Yorkshire Police have referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) watchdog as they had previous contact with Ms Akter.

Greater Manchester Police also referred themselves to the IOPC because they had contact with both Masum and Ms Akter.

West Yorkshire Police said earlier that Ms Akter was attacked at around 3.20pm on Saturday while with her baby in the Westgate area of Bradford city centre.

Assistant Chief Constable Damien Miller said in a press conference: "Despite the best efforts of members of the public, ambulance crews and hospital staff, Kulsuma sadly lost her life due to the injuries.

"Her baby is safe and well and was not harmed in this incident."

Officers searching for Masum say they have carried out "a number of raids" in Burnley, Oldham, and Chester, as part of the investigation.

West Yorkshire Police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of assisting an offender as a result but said the search continues for the suspect, who has links to Burnley and Chester.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Masum studied for a masters in marketing and digital marketing at the University of Bedfordshire between 2021 and 2023.

His Facebook page states he is from Sylhet, Bangladesh, and he is believed to be in the UK on a student visa, and later a post-graduate visa after he obtained his degree.

According to officers, Masum was last seen wearing a duffle coat with three large horizontal lines, grey tracksuit bottoms and maroon trainers.

A witness also told West Yorkshire Police they saw him wearing a grey hoodie with the hood up.

Officers said Masum was seen on CCTV getting on a bus on Market Street in Bradford at 3.30pm on Saturday.

The last confirmed sighting of the suspect was when he exited the bus at 3.42pm on Killinghall Road and walked in the direction of Bradford Moor Park.

Mr Miller added: "I believe him to still be in the country at this moment in time."

Greater Manchester Police say they are assisting West Yorkshire Police with their investigation.

"Due to his links to Greater Manchester, we have our specialist officers following several lines of enquiry to locate him," said Detective Superintendent Jude Holmes from the force's Oldham district.

"I urge members of the public to remain vigilant, and if you have any information on his whereabouts, call 999 as a matter of urgency."

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Bradford stabbing: Nationwide manhunt for Habibur Masum over mother's death - BBC

By Victoria Scheer

BBC News

Every police force in the country is looking for a man suspected of fatally stabbing a mother who was pushing her baby in a pram, officials said.

Habibur Masum, 25, is wanted after a 27-year-old woman was attacked in the Westgate area of Bradford on Saturday.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed the baby was not harmed in the attack.

West Yorkshire's deputy mayor for policing and crime said Mr Masum was known to the victim and was considered "very dangerous".

Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, Alison Lowe said: "Habibur Masum is still at large.

"There is a very complex investigation currently ongoing with all forces in the country trying to locate the suspect.

"We don't think this was a random killing, the police know the two people were known to each other."

Specialist search teams in Westgate, Bradford

Anyone who sees Mr Masum is urged not to approach him and to phone 999 immediately.

Mr Masum, who is described as Asian and of a slim build, is from the Oldham area and is believed to have links to the Burnley and Chester areas.

CCTV footage appears to show him wearing a duffle coat with three large horizontal lines of grey, white and black, light blue or grey tracksuit bottoms with a small black emblem on the left pocket and maroon trainers.

Officers said a knife was recovered from the scene but could not confirm whether Mr Masum was armed.

A Facebook page believed to belong to Mr Masum suggests he is a Bangladeshi national and is studying digital marketing at the University of Bedfordshire.

The university declined to comment or confirm if Mr Masum was one of its students when contacted by the BBC.

Flowers left at the scene of a murder in Bradford

Geo Khan, who runs a fruit and veg shop close to the scene of the incident, told the BBC how he had tried to save the victim after he found her body on Saturday afternoon.

Mr Khan said he knew the woman by sight and that she had been coming into his store for a "few weeks".

"I was sitting in my shop when I heard screaming," he said.

"I came out and ran to the scene and there was a body lying on the floor. I tried to check her pulse and there was none.

"Within a few minutes a doctor arrived and we tried to turn her over. There was blood everywhere. I got a sheet and I put that over her until the ambulance arrived.

"It was really, really bad. I couldn't take it in.

"She was a good, charitable lady and all the time there was a smile on her face.

"The local area is distressed. I just feel really sorry for her and for what happened."

The Rev Duncan Milwain, assistant curate at Bradford Cathedral, said churches and mosques in the city would be open to people wishing to grieve.

He said: "The cathedral is open at all times for anybody who wants to come and sit down, talk to somebody, pray or light a candle.

"Bradford's a city of faith. This must be used to bring the community together, rather than pull people apart.

"Being towards the end of Ramadan, it's a terrible time for this to have happened."

Mr Milwain said "people who don't know Bradford" should be assured the incident was "isolated".

"Bradford is a young and vibrant city," he added.

"It's really an optimistic place. We don't want a narrative that Bradford's an unfortunate place to be. It's a place of great hope."

Duncan Milwain, assistant curate at Bradford Cathedral

A large police presence was reported in Bradford's city centre over the weekend following the woman's death.

Ms Lowe said people in the community were "shocked and distressed" by what had happened.

She added: "The reason I'm speaking today is to give reassurance to that community that everything is being done to locate this suspect and to reassure them that these incidents are really rare.

"This was someone who knew the victim and is highly unlikely to be a risk to anybody else in Bradford or wider West Yorkshire."

The victim has not yet been formally identified but police said her family had been informed and was being supported by officers.

Police tape at the scene of a murder in Bradford on 6 April

Charles Heslett, BBC News, at the scene

There's a group of photographers and camera crews on Westgate on the outskirts of Bradford city centre.

Police tape that provided a cordon for the area has now been taken down. Bits of it are still tied to railings along Westgate.

Shopkeepers in the area are reluctant to talk due to the media attention and the sensitivity of the subject, but the overall feeling is one of great sadness that a 27-year-old young mother had lost her life and a baby had been left without a parent.

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Royal Navy nuclear sub whistleblower claims being left in limbo after sexual abuse allegations is like 'a second injury' - Sky News

A whistleblower who raised the alarm 18 months ago about alleged sexual harassment and abuse onboard the UK's nuclear-armed submarines says she feels let down and left in limbo by the Royal Navy.

Admiral Sir Ben Key, the head of the navy, ordered an internal inquiry into the claims made in a newspaper interview in October 2022 by Sophie Brook, a former naval officer, and other women about their treatment while serving in the elite Submarine Service.

Summing up her core allegation, Ms Brook, 32, told Sky News: "There is sexual assault, sexual harassment, and misogyny is widespread within the Submarine Service."

After first going public, she said she had "multiple people contacting me saying the same thing happened to me... that ranged from minor sexual assault all the way up to rape".

Ms Brook, who could have become the first female captain of a submarine but has since resigned from the navy, gave evidence to the investigation as well as to the military police.

She said she was told last year by the navy that the outcome of the inquiry would be made public very soon, but she is still waiting for any kind of update.

"I believe it was back in 2023 - sometime in the summer when they promised that the report was imminent - was the last time I heard from the navy," she said, sitting with her father, David, also a former naval officer, who has been a huge support to her.

Asked how this made her feel, she said: "It's rude... it's like having a second injury."

Sky News revealed last year how victims of alleged sexual harassment and bullying in the Red Arrows felt they had suffered a second wound from the Royal Air Force after a separate - similarly internal - inquiry dragged on for almost two years, largely in secret.

Sarah Atherton, a Conservative MP, army veteran and member of parliament's defence select committee, has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the treatment of women in the armed forces.

She said she was appalled at the length of time it was taking for the Royal Navy to investigate the submarine allegations without providing any kind of update to the victims.

Ms Atherton also called into question the fairness of the entire system of military justice, which enables the individual services to launch so-called non-statutory inquiries into serious allegations that their own officers are then tasked with investigating.

'Justice delayed is justice denied'

"For victims, witnesses and alleged perpetrators to have to wait 18 months for an outcome - and by all accounts not even being kept up to date - is completely unacceptable," Ms Atherton told Sky News.

"Justice delayed is justice denied. And the use of non-statutory investigations by the Ministry of Defence is just another way that they're just marking their own homework."

A spokesperson for the Royal Navy said: "The First Sea Lord is clear that any behaviour which falls short of the highest standards will not be tolerated and anyone found culpable will be held accountable.

"Work around an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour in the Submarine Service is ongoing and given the complex nature of the allegations, it is important to take time to do this thoroughly."

'Hostility and harassment from the start'

Ms Brook chose to join the Submarine Service after a ban on female submariners was lifted in 2011. However, she alleged that she suffered hostility and harassment from the start.

The situation was so grave she said it badly impacted her mental health, prompting her to start self-harming even while serving for months at a time onboard the nuclear-armed submarines that provide the UK's nuclear deterrence - the cornerstone of UK security.

She said she initially raised concerns internally about her alleged mistreatment.

But she claimed that the Royal Navy turned on her, accusing her of fraud and of revealing information about the movement of a submarine.

On the fraud charge, Ms Brook said she decided to plead guilty at court-martial because she had not been allowed more time to produce bank records that she claimed showed she had made car journeys that she had claimed petrol money for.

'I didn't gain a penny'

Showing the Tesco bank records to Sky News, Ms Brook said: "I did not gain a single penny.

"I made many, many journeys home, probably over 20 journeys home that year to see my family. However, they were not always on the exact day that I had put the claim in for, sometimes they were a week later, sometimes they were a week earlier, and sometimes they were on the right day and, you know, the admin was correct.

"But, the navy, I perhaps provided them with an open goal. I was someone that was complaining and making problems, and I absolutely made an admin error and where I believe anyone else and any other male certainly would have been told this is incorrect admin, do it properly next time, I was taken to court martial for it."

Ms Brook said evidence of her fragile mental health had also not been considered by the court.

She read a letter from a senior doctor detailing her mental state at the time.

It said: "Miss Brook's mental health was discussed with a senior psychiatrist. At this time, her mental health would undoubtedly have affected her judgement. And as such, I do not feel she can be held accountable for her actions."

Asked about the litigation, the Royal Navy spokesperson said: "All court martial trials are independent and presided over by a judge advocate, who is appointed in the same way as judges in other courts and ensures that matters are handled fairly and in compliance with the law."

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Bradford stabbing: Mother's death prompts nationwide manhunt - BBC