THEY were a couple with different backgrounds and different characters.

Pretty Sabira Alam was a "bright and lively" 20-year-old student with her whole life ahead of her.

The former Salendine Nook High School student lived with her loving family, who ran a post office and store in Ripponden.

But evidence to a murder trial revealed her boyfriend Naveed Naeem to be obsessive, secretive and cruel.

The control-freak texted the White Rose School of Beauty student up to 90 times a day to check up on her.

The paranoid Milnsbridge man thought Sabira was cheating on him – even though she did nothing to make him think so.

Days after dumping her body on the moors he took her bank card and drew out £130 to pay for sex at a brothel in Manchester.

In CCTV footage obtained by the Examiner, he can be seen smirking and putting his thumb up as he heads back to his car.

Naeem kept a vile notebook where he scribbled down his thoughts about sexual acts and an unnamed woman.

And on Sabira he wrote: "Always I catch her out, scanning the next man."

Another said: "Looks like she’s interested in shoe shop guy, but making out like she is not. Is she playing us off each other?"

Other notes included: "Acted funny when I mentioned body shimmer"; "Acted funny, like someone was there"; and "Mysteriously reappeared after a few nights. Said I couldn’t go around."

Naeem never put forward his side of the story during the murder trial.

Instead, he was seen shaking his head, taking notes or dabbing tears from his eyes with a tissue.

His final words as he was taken down to the cells was when he shouted: "You’re all b******s – all of you!"

Sabira couldn’t cope with Naeem’s obsessive and controlling behaviour and broke up with him.

Judge James Stewart QC told the court: "By your action you’ve snuffed out a life of a loving daughter and sister.

"From such a tragedy this loving family will never recover."

Sabira’s family, who live in Vernon Avenue, Greenhead, said farewell to their "loving daughter and sister" after a family service at the Jamia Mosque, Huddersfield.

Sabira’s oldest sister Aneesa Alam, 30, said the death had devastated the family.

She told the Examiner at the time that Sabira had been a happy and normal 20-year-old and they had a close relationship.

The sisters had worked part-time at their father’s shop, Ripponden News and Post Office.

Miss Alam said: "It has just left such a big void in all of our lives. We are still trying to come terms with what has happened.

"Now she has gone, the place just feels dead."