A murderer who killed his own stepmother and raped and fathered a child with a 14-year-old girl has died in prison.
Mohammed Fethaullah, 64, previously of Wandsworth, London, died at HMP High Down on May 13 this year.
He was jailed for life in 2003 after being convicted of kidnapping and murdering Yasmin Akhtar, 35, who was in the process of divorcing Fethaullah’s father at the time.
With three other men, Fethaullah took Ms Akhtar from her property in Redhill to a shop on Old Kent Road, where she was strangled with black tape.
Her body was then wrapped in a carpet before petrol was poured over her face and she was set ablaze in Larkhall Park, Clapham.
The Old Bailey heard during Fethaullah’s murder trial that Ms Akhtar had been asking her then-66-year-old husband for a £250,000 divorce settlement – which was said to have threatened Fethaullah’s inheritance prospects.
All four men were sentenced to life imprisonment.
During Fethaullah’s life sentence it then came to light that he had raped and impregnated a 14-year-old girl in 1999, several years before he killed his stepmother.
Mohammed Fethaullah (above), who killed his own stepmother and raped and fathered a child with a 14-year-old girl, has died in prison
Fethaullah died at HMP High Down (above) on May 13 this year
Pictured: Police tape at the scene in Larkhall Park, Clapham, after Yasmin Akhtar’s body was discovered in 2002
A police statement said the victim had been waiting to collect her wages from Fethaullah’s shop in Brixton, where she worked, when he asked her to collect some cigarettes from the front of the shop.
After returning the girl finished a drink she had left on the office desk, before almost immediately collapsing. She believed Fethaullah had spiked her.
Drifting in and out of consciousness, she then woke up to find Fethaullah raping her in the back seat of a car after he had driven it to a secluded location.
Fethaullah believed the girl was not aware of what had happened and afterwards drove her home.
But the victim found out she was pregnant a short time later, and decided to raise the child despite knowing there was a chance it could be the product of rape.
A DNA test in 2016 proved Fethaullah was the father and she took this evidence to police.
Fethaullah was convicted of rape in 2019 after a two-year investigation, and he was sentenced to a further 16 years in prison.
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said the investigation into Fethaullah’s death is ‘in progress’.
