A white teenage mother was stabbed to death and her body dumped in a canal after her married South Asian lover rejected her child

Student Laura Wilson, 17, was killed by 18-year-old Ashtiaq Asghar, having been lured alone to the canal by his friend and her former lover Ishaq Hussain, Sheffield Crown Court heard. Laura had a brief fling with near neighbor Hussain, 22, and gave birth to their daughter in June 2010 but he refused to accept the child was his, the court was told. Laura was killed in October 2010 only three days after she revealed to the families of Hussain and Asghar that she had had affairs with both men who were trying to keep it secret. Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC said that the men mounted a mission to kill Laura Wilson and even adopted the language of the cult British film Four Lions about Islamic terrorists in Britain. Asghar admitted Laura's murder in May 2011 and will be sentenced after the end of the trial of Hussain, who denies murder. Campbell told the jury that Hussain was jointly responsible for Laura's murder. The court heard that he failed to acknowledge Laura's baby and Asghar was equally keen that his family did not know about his affair with a white girl.