A domestic worker named Ayesha Akter, currently imprisoned in Kashimpur Women’s Jail, has confessed to killing her employer Laila Afroze and the employer’s daughter Nafisa Lawal Binte Aziz in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, on December 8, 2025. The murders occurred after Ayesha was accused of stealing two thousand taka from her employer’s bag. Following an altercation, she attacked both victims with a switch gear she had earlier picked up from a roadside area. Ayesha later fled the scene wearing the victim’s daughter’s school uniform and was arrested in Jhalakathi.

According to the case file, Ayesha was remanded for six days and later gave a confessional statement before the Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. The victims’ husband, Azizul Islam, a teacher, filed the murder case after discovering his wife and daughter dead at their home. CCTV footage confirmed Ayesha’s entry and exit from the house on the day of the incident.

Ayesha, aged 20, expressed deep remorse for the killings, saying she acted out of desperation to feed her child and now faces a life of regret and isolation in prison.