Recovery driver, 41, guilty of killing teenage girlfriend with his truck after she had a baby with another man

By CLAIRE DUFFIN, SENIOR REPORTER Published: 12:30, 19 June 2026 | Updated: 12:32, 19 June 2026 A recovery driver was today found guilty of killing his teenage girlfriend with his truck after she had a baby with another man. Mohammed Azim, 41, used his Mercedes sprinter flatbed 'as a weapon' to crush Lily Whitehouse, 19, against a lamppost. He then lied to police that she had been a victim of a hit and run. Members of Miss Whitehouse's family wept and shouted as the verdict was delivered on Friday. Azim, a divorced father who moved to the UK from Pakistan when he was 14, had denied murder and manslaughter and was convicted of murder by a majority of 10-2 following a two-week trial. Mr Justice Murray adjourned sentence until Monday and remanded Azim in custody.  CCTV showed Azim pushing Miss Whitehouse along the road in his van before a loud bang could be heard. Miss Whitehouse, who was just 5ft 3ins and weighed less than seven and a half stone, suffered severe chest injuries and died on the pavement in the market town of Oldbury, West Midlands on November 5 last year. Lily Whitehouse's family described her as 'their beautiful girl, who could light up the world' after her death aged 19 in November last year. Mohammed Azim, 41, was arrested after claiming he had seen somebody else hit Ms Whitehouse as she crossed the road The court heard the pair met on the High Street in West Bromich in 2023, when Miss Whitehouse was 16, and exchanged mobile phone numbers.  They went on to have a sexual relationship but separated for a short time, during which Miss Whitehouse became pregnant by another man.  She later resumed her relationship with Azim, who was more than 20 years her senior, after giving birth to her baby 10 weeks prematurely in September 2025.  On the day of her death, Ms Whitehouse had been to visit her daughter in the neo natal unit at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley - which she did every day - before catching the bus back to Oldbury, where Azim arranged to pick her up. But prosecutors said that instead of taking her back home he drove past her flat and parked up nearby where the van remained idling for 16 minutes before Miss Whitehouse appears to get out. Prosecutors said the two were arguing. She was then caught on CCTV running along the road as he pursued her in the vehicle - nudging her along.  A loud bang could then be heard, which prosecutors said was the door of Azim's vehicle crushing Miss Whitehouse against a lamppost.   Miss Whitehouse had been in an on-off  relationship with Azim since 2023 CCTV showing Miss Whitehouse being pushed by Mohammed Azim's truck seconds before she was struck Azim then picked up her body and put it in the cab and drove around the corner before calling emergency services. In a 999 call played to the jury he could be heard screaming and shouting but refused to start CPR telling call handlers 'she's dead bro'. He told the court he had accidentally hit Ms Whitehouse with his van and admitted lying about the hit and run saying he had 'panicked'. But the court heard Miss Whitehouse had accused Azim of assaulting her with his vehicle just five days before she went into premature labour. In a series of messages sent in the early hours of September 19 last year and read to the court, Miss Whitehouse wrote, ‘You literally pushed me with the van door. I went in the puddle and everything.  ‘That can kill the baby, making me fall like that. You have literally soaked all my clothes. You have made me bang my head on the floor.' The day before she gave birth, Miss Whitehouse told friends she had fallen and cut her hand following an argument with Azim, when he 'sped off in his car'.  She gave birth to her daughter the next day. Family members said Azim was 'not happy' that Ms Whitehouse was pregnant with another man's baby and made her hide her baby bump.  She also told friends and family would grab her and take her phone.  Azim told the court that on the night of her death, she had 'wanted an extra ten minutes with him' but he had told her he needed an early night.  He said she was 'pleading' to go with him before opening the passenger door and asking him to get out and give her a hug. He told the jury he then locked the passenger door to stop her re-entering the truck and got back into the driver’s seat and put the van in gear and it 'started rolling'. Azim, who dabbed his eyes with tissues throughout his evidence, said he moved the van to the left so as to miss Lily but was getting too close to some parked cars so swung it back to the right and 'heard a bang'.  He said he opened the door and looked back to find Lily on the floor bleeding and unconscious. Asked why he had not called an ambulance, he said, ‘I did not want to waste time. I thought I would take her to the hospital.’ After Miss Whitehouse was injured, Azim picked her up and put her in his truck while dialling 999 and claiming he had seen her being hit by a vehicle that did not stop at the scene. He was arrested on suspicion of murder.  He answered no comment to most questions about his relationship with how she had died. In the 999 call played to the jury Azim is heard saying: 'She got hit by a car - he drive off [sic] later telling the call handler: 'I don't know she got run over by a car. She's probably dead.' The call handler repeatedly tells him to take her out of the truck, lay her on her back and start CPR but he continues to cry and shout out 'oh my God...she's gone man'. The 999 operator tells him: 'If you are not willing to do CPR you need to find someone else that will.' The woman continues: 'Why are you refusing to help this girl? I am trying to tell you what to do? We need to try to save her life? Azim, who wore a navy suit with a pale blue shirt, was assisted in the dock by a Mirpuri interpreter but speaks 'reasonably good' English, the court heard. The court heard Ms Whitehouse was 'besotted' with and 'reliant' on Azim, who had tried to end the relationship but she wanted it to continue. Jurors were told Ms Whitehouse had a 'pretty awful childhood'. Her mother left when she was three and she was brought up by her father Jamie. She left home in 2023 when she was 16, moving in to supported accommodation. She was closest to her maternal grandmother who passed away in 2023 leaving her 'very isolated with few friends she could rely on'. Her father's former partner, Libby Higgs, told the court that Miss Whitehouse knew it was 'not a healthy relationship' and had planned to leave him when her baby was discharged from hospital. She said Miss Whitehouse had left tearful voice notes following rows with Azim and sent her pictures of bruises she said he had inflicted on her arms. Ms Higgs said: 'She just told me that he used to say vile things to her. He used to punch her and do things to her like that to the point it was marking her arms.' She said on another occasion he had called Ms Whitehouse a 'dumb silly b****' because she was having difficulties breast feeding her baby. 'He said she was not good at being a mum because she can't even feed her baby properly,' she told the court. 'She knew the relationship she was in was not a healthy one and she had to leave him but she didn't know what it was but she couldn't leave him.' No comments have so far been submitted. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? 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