Kind-hearted pregnant woman’s decision to give abusive husband second chance ended in tragedy

A Texas man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after admitting to strangling his pregnant wife to death after she gave him a second chance.  Nasib Ahsan, 35, pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Nawreen Tuli on Christmas Day in 2023, in what prosecutors described as a brutal, senseless slaying.  ‘This was a vicious, premeditated act of domestic violence that stole the life of a young woman and her unborn child,’ Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said this week after he was sentenced.  ‘My team fought to hold him fully accountable and ensure he can never harm another woman.’

In the weeks before the murder, Tuli filed a protective order against her husband after he allegedly assaulted her.  But family members said she decided to give him a second chance for the sake of their unborn child, and had taken him back into the home they shared in McKinney, Texas.  On Christmas Day, Ahsan called his uncle and admitted to murdering his wife, saying an argument they had when he got home from work escalated into violence.  When officers arrived at their apartment, Ahsan told police that his wife was napping inside, before they found her choked to death on her bed.

Nasib Ahsan, 35, pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Nawreen Tuli on Christmas Day in 2023, just weeks after she had given him a second chance in their relationship

                                     Nawreen Tuli was two months pregnant when Ahsen strangled her to death

When officers arrived at Ahsan’s home for a welfare check after his uncle called 911, Ahsan initially claimed his wife choked him first, leading him to choke her back in response, according to an arrest affidavit reported by Fox4.  Tuli was two months pregnant at the time of the slaying, and an autopsy found her injuries were consistent with strangulation.  Her niece Tasneem Kabir revealed after the murder that Ahsan was already facing legal trouble for an alleged assault on Tuli a month prior, which led her to file a protective order against him.  ‘She called my mom when her husband got arrested, and she was shaking with fear,’ she recalled.

It is unclear how long Ahsan and Tuli were together before the murder, but her family said she had only moved from Bangladesh a year before to start a new life in America.  Kabir said her aunt had given Ahsan another chance at their relationship because she was pregnant, saying: ‘She always wanted to have a family.’  ‘That’s why she thought maybe he will get better, but eventually he didn’t,’ she said.

      Tuli’s family said she gave her killer another chance because she was pregnant and had ‘always wanted a      family’

Kabir said she hoped her aunt’s story could serve as a warning to other victims of domestic violence to seek help before it is too late.  ‘She was always an independent woman, but I don’t know what happened that she just accepted everything,’ she said.  She added at the time: ‘I want him to pay for what he has done. I want him to be an example that no one can do that to anyone.’