Overview
- Opening statements at the Old Bailey detailed an incident on August 16, 2025 in Chadwell Heath following a chance encounter in Stoke Newington.
- The prosecution says CCTV shows Ms Mukhtar ejected from a crowded Mercedes, kicked as she sat on the ground, then punched in the neck, causing a fractured skull and fatal brain injury.
- Footage and audio presented in court depict the car leaving, briefly returning, voices urging departure, and the group driving off again.
- Police stopped the Mercedes minutes later, seized nitrous oxide canisters and small amounts of drugs, detained the group for about 50 minutes, then released them as the car was overloaded.
- Owusu was identified by a distinctive silver gilet on video and arrested the next day, while Ms Mukhtar, 27, who was profoundly deaf and worked at the Young Vic, was found unresponsive at 5:31am and pronounced dead at 6:21am.