Dhaka, Dec. 17 -- Domestic aide Ayesha Akhter has given a confessional statement to the court in connection with the murder of a mother and her teenage daughter in Dhaka's Mohammadpur, after her husband confessed earlier.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam recorded her confessional statement following an application by the investigation officer.

Police arrested key suspect Ayesha and her husband, identified only as Rabbi, on Dec 10 around 12:30pm from her aunt-in-law's house in Nalchity Upazila of Jhalakathi.

The following day, the court ordered six days of questioning in police custody for Ayesha and three days for Rabby.

Rabby gave a confessional statement in court on Sunday following his police interrogati...