STARVED to just three stone and covered with horror bite marks and burns, little Ayesha Ali scribbled “I tried to be good” on a scrap of paper. As other children her age played in the sunshine during the summer holidays , the eight-year-old was locked away and tortured. Ayesha Ali was tortured to death by her mum and her lover[/caption] Her mum Polly Chowdhury had been “bewitched” by neighbour Kiki Muddar, who convinced her lover that Ayesha was evil.
Using a fantasy world of self-serving alter egos, Muddar convinced Chowdhury to boot her husband out and let her move in. Once her foot was in the door of the family home in Chadwell Heath, East London, the monster’s sole purpose became making Ayesha’s life a “living hell”. Now as we revisit one of the most harrowing cases to hit Britain, we delve into the months leading up to her death, during which the youngster was subjected to a “life of cruelty and misery that defies belief”.
Muddar and Chowdhury would torture the little girl in the dead of night while wearing “vile masks” in a punishment straight from a horror film. She was heard screaming, sobbing and pleading with her mum: “Amah, I don’t want to be bad, Amah, Amah, I don’t want to be bad.” The evil pair also made her write a list of things she had done wrong, which included “huffing and puffing”, “telling lies” and “being rude”.
Their despicable actions grew more violent when Muddar convinced her partner that Ayesha had “bad .