A JILTED teenager told his friends he had ‘sliced’ his ex-girlfriend’s throat just hours after he had stabbed her to death, a court heard.

Gulamyr Akhter, 19, allegedly stabbed A-level student Asha Muneer, 18, who grew up in Brierfield, more than 30 times after attacking her on a towpath during a freezing January evening this year, Reading Crown Court was told.

Shortly after he drove with friends to deserted farmland where he burnt potentially incriminating evidence including a mobile phone and clothing, John Price QC, prosecuting said.

Sikander Khan told the court that after starting the fire in farmland near Reading, Akhter, a childhood friend, had admitted to killing Ms Muneer.

Mr Khan and two friends had asked Akhter what he was doing following the blaze in the field on the evening of January 18.

Giving evidence Mr Khan said: “We asked him what he was playing at.

“He answered ‘I can’t tell you’ We asked him again and he said ‘If I tell you, you can’t tell anyone.’”

Mr Khan said Akhter then told them: “I killed my girl, I sliced her throat.”

The court heard that Akhter had bombarded Ms Muneer with more than 600 calls and texts in the two weeks before her death.

Akhter is accused of repeatedly stabbing Ms Muneer as she walked through Reading after a shift at a Laura Ashley store, where she worked as a part-time sales assistant.

Prosecutors claim Akhter, of Victoria Way, Reading, murdered the young woman “because he could not tolerate her rejection of him”.

Akhter denies murder.

(Proceeding)