{"id":648268,"date":"2026-06-20T03:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:09:22","slug":"van-driver-who-crushed-girlfriend-in-oldbury-guilty-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648268\/","title":{"rendered":"Van driver who crushed girlfriend in Oldbury guilty of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been found guilty of murdering his teenage girlfriend by crushing her to death against a lamp-post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lily Whitehouse, 19, suffered fatal chest injuries in the attack in Oldbury, West Midlands, on 5 November, hours after visiting her premature baby in an intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mohammed Azim, 41, had denied using his van as a weapon, initially claiming she was hit by another vehicle in a hit-and-run, but was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Mr Justice Murray told Azim, of Tividale Road in Tipton, he would be sentenced on Monday afternoon after the jury returned their verdict by a majority of 10 to two after less than six hours of deliberation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of Whitehouse&#8217;s family in the public gallery sobbed as the verdict was returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court was shown CCTV footage of Azim pushing the teenager with his vehicle before causing catastrophic chest injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Home Office pathologist found Whitehouse had suffered injuries predominantly to her right side while in an upright position, including a broken upper arm, fractured ribs, a laceration to her liver and traumatic injuries to her chest, which caused &#8220;severe bleeding&#8221; and led to her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been found guilty of murdering his teenage girlfriend by crushing her to death against a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}