The 25-year-old’s remains, believed to be buried by the A19, have never been found :: Abusive partner Ahmed Al-Khatib now faces life in jail
A man has been found guilty of murdering his wife after she walked out on her abusive marriage.
Rania Alayed, a devoted mum-of-three from Norton, vanished in June last year.
The 25-year-old’s remains, believed to be buried in a copse on the A19 At Thirsk, North Yorkshire, have never been found.
It is not known how she died.
Her husband, Ahmed Al-Khatib, of Knutsford Road, Gorton, now faces life after being found guilty of murder.
The 34-year-old’s brother, Muhanned Al-Khatib, was found not guilty of murder.
The pair had already admitted perverting the course of justice by hiding Rania’s body.
A third brother, Hussain Al-Khatib, was found guilty of perverting the course of juctice.
Their trial heard Rania was subjected her to years of domestic and sexual violence and then killed when she found the courage to ‘break free of her husband’s shackles’.
At the time of her death she had left the family home in Blackley and started a new independent life with their children in Cheetham Hill, prosecutor Tony Cross QC told the jury, becoming ‘too Westernised’ for her controlling husband’s liking.
Ahmed Al-Khatib admitted killing Rania, saying he was mentally ill at the time and believed she was possessed by a demon.
But the jury rejected his defence after a month-long trial.
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