Thursday 23 June 2022 01:59 PM Pizzeria owner, 44, who murdered his maths teacher wife, 28, is jailed for 18 ... trends now
A pizza shop owner has been jailed for life after killing his wife and leaving her body in an unmarked grave for nearly seven months.
Nezam Salangy, 44, told officers that his wife Zobaidah Salangy, 28, had 'gone for a run and never came back' when quizzed over her disappearance.
He was found guilty of murdering his partner of eight years at Worcester Crown Court, and was today jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years before being considered for parole.
Salangy attacked his wife on March 29 2020, before burying her in woodland near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, under the cover of darkness.
But bungling police failed to discover her body until more than six months later, and then charged her husband in connection with her death.
Salangy's younger brothers Mohammed Yasin, 34, and 31-year-old Mohammed Ramin Salangy, who worked in another pizza shop, were also convicted alongside their older brother of helping him to cover up the crime.
Mohammed Ramin received a sentence of six years and Mohammed Yasin was handed four years and nine months in prison for their parts in the murder.
Nezam Salangy, 44, was today jailed for a minimum of 18 years for murdering his wife Zobaidah Salangy, 28, pictured, on March 29 2020, then burying her in woodland near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, under the cover of darkness. Her body was found in October 2020, bound in curtain wire and wrapped in bin bags with a duvet cover matching pillow cases found in the couple's home
Ramin travelled 90 miles by cab from his and Yasin's home in Adamscroft Place, Cardiff, Wales, to help bury the victim.
The court was told that Mohammed Yasin Salangi got involved in covering up Zobaidah's death due to 'pressure from family and misplaced loyalty to his eldest brother'.
None of the defendants gave evidence in their defence and the 11 jurors reached their guilty verdicts in just under 14 hours.
Zobaidah had told family she was going jogging during lockdown on 28 March, when the UK had just entered a nation-wide lockdown after the outbreak of Covid-19.
After she failed to return, Salangy, of Talbot Road, Bromsgrove, reported his wife missing to police, telling them 'she had gone out for a run and never come back', after leaving him for a 'new boyfriend', prosecutors said.
After nearly seven months after she went missing, West Mercia Police officers had discovered Zobaidah's body in Copyholt Lane, Bromsgrove on 16 October 2020.
Her body was found just 2.8 miles away, a seven minute drive, from where Salangy lived in Talbot Road.
The pair wed under an arranged marriage in Afghanistan in November 2012, where Zobaidah was a maths teacher, before they moved to the UK in 2013.
The trial heard Zobaidah and Salangy had 'argued bitterly' the day before she disappeared on 28 March 2020.
When her body was found, it had been bound in curtain wire and
