Wasif Hussain, 21, and Nabela Tabassum, 19, attacked victim with hammer and knife in brutal assault caught on camera.
A man and his wife have been found guilty of attempting to murder his stepmother in a vicious hammer-and-knife attack while wearing giraffe masks in Birmingham last year.
Wasif Hussain, 21, and Nabela Tabassum, 19, ambushed the victim in her Kings Norton home on the evening of 29 January 2023, striking her with a hammer, strangling, punching, and stabbing her as Tabassum held her down. The horrific assault was captured on the victim’s home security camera.
Despite suffering stab wounds and defensive injuries, the woman managed to convince the pair to let her go upstairs, where she locked herself in a room and called police for help.
The attackers fled Birmingham immediately but were tracked down and arrested in Bolton the next morning.
During the trial at Birmingham Crown Court, prosecutors revealed that the couple had lashed out after being accused of treating the family home “like a hotel” and refusing to do household chores. The dispute escalated into the near-fatal attack when they were asked to leave.
Detective Inspector Laura Allen, from Public Protection, said: “This was a calculated and frenzied attack on a defenceless woman using weapons including a knife and hammer. She was very lucky to have managed to get away, lock herself in a room, and call for help.”
Hussain and Tabassum denied attempted murder but were convicted last Thursday (27 March) after a trial. They are set to be sentenced on 21 May and face lengthy prison terms.
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