Where is Zahid Younis now?
ZAHID YOUNIS is the sick killer who was found keeping the bodies of his two female victims in his freezer.
Police made the horrifying discovery in 2019 at the London home of the sex offender, who already had a history of violence against women.
Where is Zahid Younis now?
As of 2023, Zahid Younis is in prison serving his sentence for the murders of Mihrican Mustafa and Henriett Szucs.
The killer was charged nine months after the bodies of both women were found frozen at a property in Canning Town.
He was then given a life sentence with a minimum term of 38 years in 2020.
Mustafa, 38, was a mother-of-three who lived nearby to Younis.
Szucs, meanwhile, was a 34-year-old Hungarian national who had been in the UK for several years and lived with Younis.
After he was caught, Younis attempted to cover up his crimes by claiming Szucs had mysteriously died on his sofa.
He also said two men turned up outside his home with Mustafa’s body stuffed in a wheelie bin and claimed they told him to burn her body and chuck her clothes off Southend Pier.
Younis was slammed by the prosecutor for making up “fairy tales.”
Duncan Penny, QC, said: “You were responsible for those deaths and the stories about these two characters, with all these elaborations, is nothing more than that. It is a story. It is a yarn. It is a tall tale.”
The judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, said: “It will surprise no-one in this room that the defendant has declined to attend his sentence, while he sits in the cells below, but I will address these remarks to him so when he has the courage to read them he will understand why the court has reached the conclusion it has.”
She said he had “robbed” his victims of “all happiness in life and dignity in death,” and said: “You have no remorse.”
She branded Younis an “arch-deceiver”, calling him a “heartless man and a narcissist”.
Younis had tried to hijack his trial by firing his lawyer and shouting abuse from the dock.
What happened to Mary Jane Mustafa?
Mary Jane Mustafa, also known as Mihrican Mustafa and Jan, went missing after leaving her mum’s house one day in May 2018.
She had only her phone and £3 on her, and never returned.
In 2019 the mum-of-three was discovered in a freezer surrounded by air fresheners and fused on top of the body of Szucs, who Younis had murdered in 2016.
Post-mortem examinations showed both women suffered multiple injuries.
Younis had strangled Szucs then stamped on her head – leaving her with a cracked skull – before stuffing her fully clothed in the freezer.
Two years later, Mustafa was also strangled by him and placed in the same freezer.
Younis’ was home was visited by police just five weeks after Mustafa disappeared when his name came up on her phone records.
Former teacher Mustafa knew Younis through a friend, but police just put a leaflet through his door.
Both women killed by Younis were only discovered in April 2019 when a concern for Younis’ welfare was raised.
Chilling bodycam footage from the time showed police walking through Younis’ squalid flat where they found the locked freezer
One officer could be heard saying “wait, there’s a foot in there” before the bodies came into view.
At his trial, the Southwark Crown Court heard that Younis had a history of violence against women, with previous partners among those giving evidence in his trial.
Mustafa’s cousin Ayse Hussein told the Newham Recorder that it was “hard” to hear Younis’ other victims speak about what he’d done to them.
She added that the family still did not know exactly what had happened to their beloved relative.
She said: “We’ll just never know what he did. How did she meet him?
“We’ve got justice but we still don’t know the truth.”
Hussein told The Sun Online in 2023 that she believes her cousin could still be alive if officers had taken her disappearance seriously from the beginning .
She said: “If the Met had done their jobs properly and looked in Zahid and his previous history Jan might still be alive.”