A CAB driver who fled the country after two men were brutally killed in his home was this afternoon found guilty by a jury of “calculated, cold-blooded murder”.

Mohammed Zubair flew to Pakistan to evade justice after dumping the bodies in a quiet lane as part of a clearly thought out plan, the trial at Bradford Crown Court was told.

Zubair, 36, had denied murdering his wife’s lover, Amhedin Khyel, and Mr Khyel’s friend, Imran Khan, in the living room of his house in Health Terrace, Barkerend, Bradford, in May 2011.

He stood impassively in the dock as the jury returned its unanimous verdict late this afternoon. 

He will be sentenced tomorrow by Judge Rodney Jameson QC who presided over the trial.

The judge will first read victim impact statements from the families of the dead men and hear mitigation from Zubair’s barrister, Peter Doyle QC.

During the trial, it was heard that Zubair became enraged when he saw Mr Khyel in his living room on the evening of May 10, 2011.

He had discovered that his wife, Kainaat Bibi, had been having an affair with the 35-year-old Afghan electrician, who lived in London with his wife and seven children.

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Imran Khan, a 27-year-old labourer, of Gloucester Avenue, Fagley, Bradford, had gone to the house expecting a cup of tea and both visitors had removed their shoes as a mark of respect.

After beating the men to death on the settee with a hammer or a dumb bell bar, Zubair put the bodies in his Volkswagen Transporter cab and dumped them late at night in secluded New Lane near Tong village where the grim discovery was made by two passing motorists in the early hours of the following morning.

Prosecutor Tahir Khan QC described Zubair’s attack on the two men as "ferocious and brutal".

They suffered fractures to their skulls that drove bone fragments into their brains and resulted in parts of the brain being pushed out of their skulls.

Mr Khyel suffered at least six blows to the head, some after he had been knocked out, and his friend tried to defend himself while the blows were raining down on him.

Intensive efforts were made to clean up the living room and Zubair’s cab but DNA evidence revealed that the men’s blood had been wiped from the walls, ceiling and furniture of the room and the inside of the vehicle.

Zubair flew to Pakistan the following day after his mother, Arab Sultana, booked and paid for his tickets.

Five years ago, while Zubair was on the run, his friend and fellow minicab driver, Sabir Hussain, was jailed for ten years after he was convicted by a Bradford Crown Court jury of the manslaughter of Mr Khyel and Mr Khan.

Zubair’s mother, Arab Sultana, 64, was jailed for three years and nine months for buying her son’s a plane ticket to get out of the country.

Zubair's wife, Kainat Bibi, 27, was locked up for 20 months for lying to murder squad detectives about her affair with Mr Khyel, and telling the police her husband was on a pilgrimage to Morocco after the killings.

Sultana and Bibi, who lived with Zubair, had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of public justice.

Zubair, who appeared in the dock wearing a smart suit and tie during the course of his trial, had said Sabir Hussain had been solely responsible for killing the two men but that claim was rejected by jurors in finding him guilty.

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