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  "textContent": "Zahwa Mukhtar’s death was described as ‘senseless’ at the Old Bailey (Picture: Met Police)\n\n**A raver nicknamed Nasty left a profoundly deaf woman to die in the street after throwing her out of a car and punching her for ‘annoying’ him on a night out, the Old Bailey was told.**\n\nDuane Owusu, 36, had been to a rave when he and his friends invited stranger Zahwa Mukhtar, 27, into their already crowded Mercedes on August 16 last year.\n\nOwusu had spent the evening at a rave and was travelling with a group of people he knew from Dagenham, jurors were told.\n\nMs Mukhtar had been out by herself and come across the group ‘by chance’ outside a pub in Stoke Newington, north London, near her home, the court heard.\n\nOutlining the ‘senseless killing of a vulnerable young woman’, prosecutor Henrietta Paget KC said: ‘The occupants of the vehicle had been drinking and taking drugs, Ms Mukhtar included.\n\n‘You will hear evidence that she was behaving erratically within the car, flirting with the boys and picking fights with the girls. Nobody knew her, and it appears that her behaviour was causing increasing annoyance.’\n\nWhen Ms Mukhtar began recording a video on her phone and the defendant ordered the driver to stop the car, the court heard.\n\nMs Paget said: ‘Opening the rear door, he threw out Ms Mukhtar’s phone and then ejected her bodily from the car, so that she landed on her backside on the pavement.\n\n‘Getting out after her, he aimed two kicks at her face as she sat on the ground. One of the female members of the group got out to try to stop the attack but he swung her aside.\n\n‘Ms Mukhtar by this stage had managed to get to her feet and was pleading with Mr Owusu to stop, but he punched her, hard, to the neck, knocking her to the ground where she lay motionless.’\n\nJurors were told that Ms Mukhtar fell so hard that she suffered a fractured skull and fatal brain injury.\n\nRather than helping her, the defendant allegedly shouted at the others to get back in the car which was then driven away.\n\nMs Paget told the jury: ‘And so it was that Ms Mukhtar was left to die.’\n\n##  Latest London news\n\n  * How a single phone call led police to the heart of London's gang violence\n\n  * Moment £100,000 statue of boxer Teddy Baldock ripped down by masked thieves\n\n  * Man, 23, plunges five floors to death 'looking out for pizza delivery'\n\n\n\n_**To get the latest news from the capital visit Metro's** London news hub._\n\nMs Mukhtar was allegedly assaulted in Chadwell Heath Lane, Romford (Picture: Met Police)\n\nJurors were shown CCTV footage of the attack outside a care home in Chadwell Heath, east London.\n\nThe footage showed Ms Mukhtar, wearing a long white dress, being attacked before falling to the floor and lying motionless on the driveway.\n\nAfter the fatal attack on Ms Mukhtar, a voice can be heard on the footage shouting: ‘Get in the car now.’\n\nA male voice was allegedly heard to say: ‘Leave her bro. I don’t even care about her, let’s just go.’\n\nA female voice is then allegedly heard shouting: ‘Someone help her. We can’t leave her like that.’\n\nMs Mukhtar was described as a ‘bright, bubbly, enthusiastic’ woman who aspired to become an accountant and worked as a finance assistant at the Young Vic Theatre in Waterloo.\n\nShe was profoundly deaf, having lost her hearing after contracting meningitis at the age of three, but coped well and was adept at lip-reading and used British sign language, jurors were told.\n\nMs Mukhtar, who came from a traditional family background, wanted to live like any other young person in their 20s and enjoyed socialising, food and travel, they heard.\n\nOwusu, of Dagenham, denies murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter.\n\nThe trial continues.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,****check our news page**.\n\n Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Deaf woman ‘beaten and left to die in street by raver nicknamed Nasty’"
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