Bushra Butt Doused Husband in Kerosene and Burnt him Alive, Gets £1,300 a Month in UK

Bushra Ferozdin Butt and her husband Amjad Hussain married in 1999 in Pakistan, where she worked as a government health visitor. Shortly afterwards she obtained UK residency and the couple, who had no children, moved to Luton. They had lived in Luton for 9 years before the pair returned to Pakistan in June 2008 where Bushra Butt is accused of setting her Husband on fire following an argument. She douses husband with kerosene before turning him into a 20 feet human fireball in a murder described as “very brutal”.

Amjad Hussain died in hospital 13 days later with 90 per cent burns. Butt, who has gone by the name of Bushra Din since his death, denied murder and claimed Mr Hussain’s clothes accidentally caught fire.

Witnesses, who saw him staggering out of his home engulfed in 20ft flames, claim she ‘giggled’ while telling her mother-in-law: ‘Don’t worry. He won’t die.’ She spent ten months in custody and was eventually bailed by a judge and travelled to Luton. She had previously been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, which entitles her to £330.70 A week in council tax and housing benefit – equivalent to an annual salary of £22,000 before tax and National Insurance.

Bushra who lived in the one-bedroom flat she rents from a private landlord, said: ‘I do not work because I have depression. I am very worried I will have to go back to Pakistan. I like this country very much. It is better than Pakistan. Luton borough council said she was ‘a legal resident in the United Kingdom and is thus allowed to claim benefits.