Khan: Jailed for 30 months
A trainee property lawyer who helped her brother flee the country so he could avoid prosecution for murder has been disqualified from working for law firms.
Husna Khan, 30, and her sister Farah, 29, were last year both jailed for two years and six months for assisting an offender in a murder.
Her employer – leading conveyancing firm ONP – was not aware of her arrest or conviction until seeing it on the website of Greater Manchester Police in August 2024.
A notice published yesterday by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said Ms Khan had worked in the profession since 2020 and was a trainee property lawyer in Stockport-based ONP’s remortgage department between 8 April and 22 August 2024, when she was dismissed.
On 26 March 2021, her brother, Khayam Khurshid, was one of three men convicted of the murder of Cole Kershaw. He was also convicted of an offence of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and sentenced to 27 years in jail.
Mr Kershaw was shot and fatally wounded on 12 August 2020 from shots fired from a BMW occupied by Mr Khurshid and the other two, one of whom fired the fatal shots from a pistol.
According to the police, Mr Khurshid fled the country with his sisters, who played “a pivotal role in planning his escape by booking hotels, hiring a car, and travelling on the Eurotunnel”. They then travelled from Calais to Belgium, where Mr Khurshid was booked on a one-way flight to Pakistan.
However, he had forgotten to get a Covid test and was unable to board the flight. A short time later, he was arrested by Dutch police in Amsterdam.
The sisters were arrested and interviewed by police on their return to the UK but denied their involvement and their knowledge of their brother’s role in the murder of Cole Kershaw. Their excuse was that they were simply going on a family holiday.
They were subsequently charged with assisting an offender in a murder and, following a one-week trial at Manchester Crown Court in July 2024, were both found guilty. They were sentenced the following month. The court also ordered the forfeiture of a motor vehicle owned by Husna Khan and a victim surcharge of £190.
The SRA said her conduct was planned and premeditated, lacked integrity, and posed a risk to public confidence in the solicitors’ profession.
As ONP is an alternative business structure, it imposed an order under section 99 of the Legal Services Act 2007 disqualifying her from holding any role in a law firm regulated by the SRA.
She was also directed to pay costs of £600.
Alison 
Deport both sisters to Pakistan. They knew exactly what they were doing. We don’t need dishonest criminals in this country.