Amani Iqbal boyfriend Jay Dawes gambling and cocaine-addict lover, strangled the marketing manager, texted his drug dealer to let him know he had “gotten rid” of her before killing himself a few days later.
Amani Iqbal, a 28-year-old university graduate and Jay Dawes’ girlfriend, was found dead in a bathtub at her Walthamstow, east London, home after being strangled with a dressing gown string, according to the findings of an inquest at Waltham Forest Coroners Court.
Following Amani’s disappearance on New Year’s Eve 2020, Dawes texted his heroin dealer to let him know he had “gotten rid” of her.
A few days later, on January 2, 2021, he crashed his Peugeot into an HGV truck that was parked in a layby not far from Saffron Walden, Essex. Dawes was nearly instantaneously killed when the lorry caught fire.
After Dawes passed away, Miss Iqbal—a graduate of Durham University and a marketing propositions manager for Sainsbury’s—was discovered.
In the days prior to her passing, the couple had been discussing getting married, starting a family, and acquiring a dog, Waltham Forest Coroners Court in east London was informed.
Just hours before the murder, the couple was captured on camera holding hands.
Samina Iqbal, Amani’s mother, stated that she last saw her daughter on New Year’s Eve 2020 when she stopped by for lunch.
Then, in the evening, her mother texted her, but received no response, which was “strange.”
Her mother continued by saying that she thinks the ‘final texts’ she purportedly sent on WhatsApp to wish her dad and pals a Happy New Year were not actually sent by her because they included grammatical and spelling errors. According to the family, she was murdered on New Year’s Eve.
Just after 9 o’clock that day, Miss Iqbal was last shown on camera sobbing as her lover closed the curtains in their apartment.
Within an hour, he started texting Brian Alexander, his heroin dealer. Between the time of her abduction and his automobile wreck, the two exchanged over 60 texts and had three in-person encounters.
During that time, Mr. Dawes drove Amani’s Fiat 500 three times, withdrew $250 three times, and once used her credit card to withdraw $250 and buy pizza.
On January 3, 2020, Miss Iqbal’s lifeless body was discovered in the bath of their Walthamstow apartment.
A dressing robe that was possibly used as a ligature was discovered in the bathroom but was not around her neck, and her t-shirt had been partially undone.
He had been apprehended, and a bag of ice had been discovered on top of her body.
