By Eric King-
A builder raped and cut the throats of two young women, leaving one of them dead in a freezer, a court has heard.
Mujahid Arshid, 33, became “sexually fixated” on his prey and had planned for weeks to abduct them, kill them, and dump their bodies in the deep freeze, the Old Bailey heard.
The sexually obsessed builder then recruited labourer Vincent Tappu to abduct the victims, the prosecution alleged
On July 18, the pair wore balaclavas and gloves then bound, gagged, and covered the victims in a dust sheet, allegedly putting them in the boot of his car and taking them to a house he was renovating. The court heard that Arshid then raped and attacked both women with a lock knife.
One of the women fooled the men into believing they could be together, then escaped by raising the alarm.
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When investigating cops attended the six-bedroom house in Coombe Lane West, they found the body of 20 year old Celine Dookhran in a locked freezer in a utility room. Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told shocked jurors that Arshid had installed a chest-high freezer in the utility room just two days earlier . He said the case was “simply horrific”.
Aylet told the jurors that the defendant had become “sexually fixated” with the women and resolved that “if he cannot have them no-one could”.
At the time, both women had boyfriends and Ms Dookhran had moved into Arshid’s home, after falling out with her parents over her love life.
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The defendant had allegedly abused the other woman when she was 13 and was “beside himself with rage” that she was going out with someone else, the court heard.
Mr Aylett said: “The evidence in this case shows that, for a period of about three weeks before July 19 last year, the first defendant was planning to kidnap both young women.
“Thereafter, and it is as bizarre as it is terrible, he intended to rape them both before murdering them and disposing of their bodies.
“To that end he considered either putting them in acid or else concealing them in a deep freezer.”
When the surviving victim convinced Arshid they could have a relationship, they left the house together and his brother brought her to hospital, the court heard.
Arshid was arrested at a hotel in Folkestone, having fled to escape ththe court heard.
Arshid, of no fixed address, and Tappu, 28, of Spencer Road, Acton, deny the charges against them.
Arshid is accused of murder, attempted murder, rape of both women and the earlier sexual assault and assault by penetration of the surviving woman.
He is jointly charged with Tappu of both women’s kidnap and false imprisonment, and possession of a firearm with intent.
Mr Aylett said: “The defendant had been hatching his murderous plan for several weeks before he actually brought it into effect.
“The prosecution suggest that he must have realised that two young women whom he adored were both slipping away from him.
“If he could not have them, he would make sure that nobody else could either.”
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