A recovery truck driver accused of causing his teenage girlfriend catastrophic fatal injuries by pinning her against a lamppost with his vehicle told police he “didn’t do no murder” after his arrest, a court has heard.
Mohammed Azim is alleged to have murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend Lily Whitehouse in Oldbury on November 5 last year – his 41st birthday, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
Azim denies murdering Ms Whitehouse, who had just visited her baby in a neonatal intensive care unit, by crushing her against a lamppost in Old Park Lane with his Mercedes Sprinter vehicle. He initially told police he had seen her get hit by a vehicle that did not stop at the scene.
Injuries and Arrest
Ms Whitehouse suffered injuries predominantly to her right side while in an upright position, including a broken upper arm, fractured ribs, a laceration to her liver, and traumatic chest injuries that caused “severe bleeding” and led to her death.
After Ms Whitehouse was injured, Azim, who had an on-off relationship with the victim since 2023, is alleged to have picked her up and put her in his truck while dialing 999. He stopped the truck in nearby Park Street and placed her on the pavement before emergency services arrived.
Paramedics and police found Azim’s story about a hit-and-run “strange,” leading to his arrest on suspicion of murder, prosecution counsel Rachel Brand KC told the jury.
Police Interviews
In police interviews on November 6, Ms Brand said Azim was asked by detectives if he knew what murder meant. He is said to have responded: “Yeah I know, but I didn’t do no murder. Please just save me.”
Ms Brand said he then told detectives: “Can you just try and take my life man… I don’t know who is after me man. Not you, not you, but someone is.”
Azim asked to speak to his mother and suggested someone was “after him” and wanted to kill him, but answered no comment or remained silent when asked about his relationship with Ms Whitehouse and the circumstances of her fatal injury.
To one question, he responded: “Why would I hit her man, why would I run her over man, please, please man. No comment man.” He remarked that he could not remember anything and knew nothing, and that the questions were “hurting his head.”
CCTV Evidence
The jury, of five women and seven men, was shown CCTV footage on Wednesday of a white flatbed truck “pushing” Ms Whitehouse, who was outside the vehicle, along the road at around 9:40 pm before they go out of sight of the camera and a loud bang is heard.
Graphic CCTV footage from nearby Park Street showed the truck pull up before Azim pulls Ms Whitehouse out of the vehicle and onto the pavement, where he repeatedly touches her chest while on the phone to 999 before rolling her onto her side and touching her back.
Ms Whitehouse had visited her baby, fathered by another man and born in September 2025, at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley on the evening she was killed, before Azim picked her up.
Ms Brand said it is the Crown’s case that the pair were having an argument at the time of the fatal incident. The trial continues.
