A British man who was caught strangling his wife during a video call witnessed by her two children and her lover has been found guilty of murder.
Prosecutors said 24-year-old Suma Begum may have still been alive when she was stuffed into a suitcase and thrown into a river.
Security footage captured Aminam Rahman, 46 exiting an elevator in his East London apartment building while wheeling a suitcase and carrying a child.
He threw the suitcase into a tributary of the Thames River.
A scavenger found Begum's decomposed body on the river bank 10 days later.
A jury convicted Rahman on Wednesday of murdering his wife.
The court was told that Rahman's attack on Begum was witnessed by their two young children, a 4-month-old and a 2-year-old, as well as her boyfriend, Shahin Miah, 24, whom she had recently met online.
Miah saw the attack while on a video call with her.
The call cut off after he heard "screaming sounds." He gave the footage to the police.
"She wanted to run away, and he then grabbed her throat," Miah testified, according to The Telegraph.
"I saw that frothing was coming out of Suma's mouth, and he showed me on the video and he was swearing at me."
In a second video call from Rahman that night, he told Begum's lover, "Look, I have killed (her), and now you get ready."
Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward told jurors, "It is clear this young woman was no longer happy in her marriage; she was fairly openly in a relationship with another man, and she had expressed the desire to leave the defendant, something about which neither he nor her family were happy."
Begum had married Rahman in an arranged Islamic ceremony over the telephone and then moved from Bangladesh to join him in the UK.
Rahman admitted in court to killing his wife but claimed it was self-defense.
Rahman was found guilty and is set to be sentenced on July 31.
"This has been a challenging case and Suma's family and friends have had to endure a trial in which they heard graphic details of how her body was hidden by her husband," Detective Chief Inspector Kelly Allen said.
