'Evil' woman murdered partner by strangling him to death after tying him up for hours while she sexted new man

A manipulative woman murdered her boyfriend after tying him up and strangling him with an extension lead as she flirted and sexted with her new man. Charlotte Dootson, 25, sent a picture of 53-year-old Mohammed Mukhtar to the man while he was bound by his hands, feet and neck with extension leads.

He was tied up for more than two hours before she killed him. Mr Mukhtar, described as being 'harmless' and 'vulnerable', had suffered domestic abuse at Dootson's hand for years.

She had repeatedly attacked him during a campaign of cruelty, and at the time she murdered him, Dootson, a former drug addict with a personality disorder, was under investigation for allegedly strangling him with a cable extension.

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Prior to killing him, she also either kicked or stamped on him and caused a life threatening injury to his liver. Now Dootson has been jailed for life to serve a minimum of 22-and-a-half years after admitting murdering Mr Mukhtar, known to his family as Amin, in his own flat in Miles Platting.

A judge said Dootson's behaviour was 'not far from sadistic'. "The manner of Mohammed Mukhtar's death, his humiliation and prolonged suffering taken together with the history of abuse are significant factors that increase the seriousness of this offence very nearly to that level," Judge Patrick Field QC said at a Manchester Crown Court sentencing hearing.

Addressing Dootson, Mr Mukhtar's sister Fozia said: "There is no punishment that you could ever receive that will ever compare to the pain that you have caused us as a family. As a family we want answers.

"I am not sure that we will ever know, but please know that we