Man sentenced to life in prison for stabbing cabbie love rival to death in frenzied attack

Gulam Chowdhury stabbed Mohammed Yasser Afzal with an eight-inch blade

Gulam Chowdhury, who has been jailed for life with a minimum of 28 years for killing Mohammed Yasser Afzal in a "ferocious" knife attack (PA)

A London man has been jailed for life for murdering his love rival in a frenzied knife attack.

Gulam Chowdhury, 24, will served a minimum of 28 years in prison for stabbing Mohammed Yasser Afzal with an eight-inch blade at least 20 times inside the east London cab office he worked in.

Chowdhury, from Barking, east London, had been in a relationship with the same woman as Mr Afzal, 22.

The Old Bailey heard that the woman allegedly told Chowdhury Mr Afzal had compromising pictures of her on his phone and was threatening to expose their relationship to her parents.

Chowdhury then plotted to kill Mr Afzal and make it appear as if he had been killed in a robbery gone wrong, but the attack was captured on graphic CCTV footage.

He stabbed Mr Afzal repeatedly at the counter of the cab office in The Broadway, in Stratford, before fleeing the scene.

Mohammed Yasser Afzal (PA)

Witnesses who identified him said he had been spotted lurking near the cab office minutes before the murder at 8pm on 24 March.

Detective Inspector Euan McKeeve, who led the investigation, said: "Gulam Chowdhury carried out a ferocious assault on Mohammed Afzal.

"The level of violence used was shocking and ensured that Mohammed would not survive the attack.

"Whatever Mohammed's motives were for the actions he took in attempting to maintain his relationship with a woman, he did not deserve to be murdered.

"It is thanks to the thorough and meticulous work of my officers who have worked tirelessly since Mohammed's murder that we have managed to prove Chowdhury planned, and then executed, this vicious assault which ended in the savage murder of a young man."

Additional reporting by PA