Snapchat queen found guilty of killing lover

A Snapchat queen who had her boyfriend killed and uploaded footage of him bleeding to death onto the social media app is facing years behind bars.

Fatima Khan posted the video of dying 18 year-old Khalid Safi with the caption “That’s what happens when you f**k with me”.

The 21-year-old office worker, nicknamed “The Snapchat Queen” by her own barrister, was addicted to the app and loved showing off to her pals online.

Before Mr Safi’s death Khan, of Ilford, East London, posted stories bragging about her luxury holiday in Qatar while ignoring his messages.

Khan locked herself in the cafe toilet to make sure the victim remained at the scene until the killer arrived.

Raza Khan then plunged a knife into the heart of Mr Safi, a refugee from Afghanistan who spent time in the Calais “Jungle” before settling in the UK five years ago.

She denied planning the attack and claimed that she made the “disgusting” decision to film Mr Safi dying because he had previously attacked her.

She wept in the dock and held her hand to her mouth as she gazed up shaking her head at the public gallery. Judge Michael Topolksi, QC, remanded her in custody ahead of sentence on July 30.

Khan had been in a relationship with Mr Safi for around two years before his death.

She had also gone out with the killer in around 2013 and a fight between the two men ended with Raza Khan stabbing Mr Safi in the shoulder.

Prosecutor Kate Bex said the relationship between Fatima Khan and Mr Safi was “clearly coming to a head” in the week before murder.

Mr Safi bought her a watch as a present but when he turned up at her home, she threw the gift at him out of the window.

On December 1 last year Fatima Khan met up with Mr Safi after finishing work at Vigilant Security at around 5pm.

The pair were captured on CCTV walking around the North Acton area, at one point entering a gym before heading to a pedestrian area outside Costa Coffee on Victoria Road.

A video recorded on her phone during their journey showed Khan calling Mr Safi a lowlife and telling him to stop crying.

When Raza Khan arrived at around 6.30pm, he seemed to “know exactly where he was going” and confronted Mr Safi, who was armed with a screwdriver.

CCTV cameras captured the pair fighting for around 15 seconds before Mr Safi collapsed with a fatal stab wound to the heart.

Fatima Khan made no efforts to help her partner either during or after the attack.

“Instead, she returned to the scene after Raza Khan had inflicted the fatal wound and videoed Khalid Safi as he lay dying in a pool of his blood on the pavement,” said Ms Bex.

Fatima Khan was also heard calling a friend to pick her up, saying: “Where the f**k are you? You need to hurry the f**k up. Everything’s got f**ked.” Fatima Khan told jurors that she had asked Raza Khan for a loan of a few hundred pounds because she was overdrawn at the bank.

She said she panicked when Raza Khan arrived and the fight started and walked off.

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