To unite with lover, woman hires 'hitman' to kill husband in fake ISIS execution

Hackney: A woman in UK had hired a contract killer to murder her husband and asked him to make it appear like an ISIS execution to throw investigators off her track.

According to a report in the UK Mirror, 28-year-old Nurten Taycur had been cheating on her husband Ercan Akan, who is an Uber driver and wanted to get rid of him. She had saved £5,000 and was willing to pay the amount to get her husband stabbed to death.

Nurten even texted the hitman “I’m so excited” and said she would help him track her husband with the Find My iPhone app. But what Nurten didn't know, was that the ‘contract killer’ she had been dealing with was actually an undercover cop.

Originally from a Kurdish village in Turkey, Nurten married Ercan when she was only 16 and the couple lived in a house in Hackney. She first met the undercover cop who used the name ‘John’ at the Victoria Park on November 13 last year.

She was arrested on hatching the plot to kill her husband and the court was informed about the sequence of events from the time Nurten first contacted the ‘hitman’ to kill her husband.

"She indicated she had a budget of £5,000. She did say she was currently involved in a relationship with another man, her boyfriend with whom she had had a relationship for two years. We suggest that was the reason why she wanted the husband murdered," the court was informed.

The cops arrested Nurten after she paid the fake hitman a deposit of £1,000 and directed him to ensure that Ercan did not survive the attack.

According to cops, Nurten had first suggested that the hitman stab her husband to death while he was on duty for Uber at night and make it look like a robbery. But later she changed her mind and told him to make his death look like an execution carried out by the Islamic State and spray ‘ISIS’ on the car.

"In our culture you cannot have a boyfriend but I can say 'yeah well I cheated on my husband'," she told the undercover officer.

“I want him to die. I want him to get out of my life," she further added.

She met him on December 4 and gave him a passport photo of Ercan and wrote his car number on the back of the photo.

Four days after that meet, she sent a message saying “the order is ready”, to indicate that she wanted him to go ahead with the murder.

They met again on December 11 to give the undercover cop the deposit money and it was on this day that she discussed her ISIS inspired murder plan.

"What I am thinking, I got this thing in my head, you know this ISIS thing that's going around, like if your friend gets a spray and writes ISIS on top of the car," she told him. She then graphically described how to carry out the killing.

Soon after she handed over the money, she was arrested and the cops raided her home and found the £4,000 that she was to pay the ‘hitman’ after he had finished his job.

Ercan was shocked beyond his wits when he was told about the murder plot and told the cops that there was no problem in their marriage.

"I still don't understand why Nurten wanted me to be killed - if she wanted to separate from me she could have done it in the normal way," he said.

However, Nurten claimed that her husband was very orthodox and would have not agreed to a divorce.

The court is set to sentence Nurten on 13 May this year after it hears all the arguments in the case and goes through all the evidence related to the crime.

"This is a very grave offence indeed. You must prepare yourself for a substantial prison sentence," the court told Nurten.