Inside the lair of 'honour killing' uncle Mohammed Taroos Khan who murdered ... trends now
The bloodied body of a young woman who rejected a forced marriage lay rolled up in a grimy rug overnight in this squalid home of her twisted uncle.
Racks of tools line the wall in the cluttered and grimy lounge area of Mohammed Taroos Khan’s shipping container residence in Bradford.
Furious that his niece, Somaiya Begum, had rejected her father’s arranged marriage to her cousin in Pakistan at the age of 16, and enraged at her increasing Westernisation, he mercilessly slaughtered the biomedical student four years later.
The lounge of killer uncle Mohammed Taroos Khan's shipping container lair in Bradford
The murderer, 53, kept the place in squalid conditions and kept his niece's dead body there
For her own safety, Somaiya, 20, had been living with her grandmother and another uncle, following a court-mandated Forced Marriage Protection Order.
It was in her beloved grandmother’s supposed safe house that Khan, 52, found his niece - and plunged a four-inch metal spike into her back, piercing her lung.
The sharpened woodworking tool was found embedded in her decomposed body when police eventually located it on waste ground, after a two-week search for the missing student.
Khan denied murder at Bradford Court Crown, but was found guilty of the 'traumatic' attack, and sentenced to 25 years in jail on Wednesday.
Despite the lengthy jail term, Khan has insisted he will keep paying his £240 rent for the cramped metal box where he lived, apparently under the impression he will need the premises again.
These interior pictures obtained by MailOnline and taken with consent of the landlord - provide a chilling snapshot of Khan’s existence and the brief resting place of his tragic niece.
Mohammed Taroos Khan who was convicted at Bradford Crown Court of murdering his 20-year-old niece Somaiya Begum
He had rented two storage containers at an industrial unit just a mile from the murder scene and one above them where he lived.
A single bed is visible inside the 'portable' office-style container, which measures around 9ft wide and 30ft long.
The landlord, who refused to give his name, said Khan was still paying £240 a month rent for his living quarters.
He said: 'I had a call off Mr Khan in January and I told him I could get somebody else in, but he said no. He said he'll get his solicitor to drop the rent off.
'He started renting the storage containers for his tools then one day said he needed to rent the one above to live in.'
Innocent Somaiya's body was dumped on waste ground where it was found decomposed 11 days later
Khan has insisted on keeping up paying his £240 a month rent to keep hold of his home
The metal box on top was where Khan lived with his tools kept in the structures below
Khan's hope to move back into one of the crimescenes is in stark contrast to his hero brother Dawood, who gave evidence against him in court.
Somaiya lived with her uncle Dawood and her grandmother after leaving her
