QUEASY RIDER: Accused slay-plotter Kashif Parvaiz looks like a born loser atop his chopper in full biker regalia. Cops say he’s confessed to a plot to kill his wife.
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She came face to face with the woman charged as her killer — and thought she was “a friend.”
Slain mom of two Nazish Noorani met accused assassin Antoinette “Soni” Stephen several months ago — and was told by serial-cheating hubby Kashif Parvaiz that Stephen was simply a platonic “friend.”
“[Noorani] told me, ‘I went with Kashif to Best Buy,’ ” the store in Cambridge, Mass., where Stephen worked, said Noorani’s sister, Lubna Choudhry. ” ‘He said, “Don’t tell them you’re my wife because everyone knows [Soni] as my fiancée — it’s only for the discount.” ‘ “
“Nazish talked about her,” Choudhry said of alleged killer Stephen, 26, of Billerica, Mass.
“My sister told me ‘Soni’ was on the mailbox” of Parvaiz’s Boston apartment while he and his wife had a long-distance relationship, with Noorani spending most of her time with their two kids at the homes of relatives in Brooklyn and New Jersey, Choudhry said.
“She said [Soni] was ‘my husband’s friend. She’s all right. I went to her home.’ ”
But sources have told The Post that Stephen was far more than a friend — that she and Parvaiz were in a romantic relationship and eventually plotted together to remove Noorani.
Stephen allegedly shot Noorani to death as she and her husband strolled with their youngest boy, 2, outside Choudhry’s house Tuesday evening.
Stephen was often seen at the East Boston apartment where Parvaiz has lived for the past year — her name is prominently displayed with his on a mailbox at the complex.
Choudhry said her sister first saw Soni’s name on the box a few months ago and became suspicious, but her husband and the other woman insisted they were just pals.
It was around the same time that Noorani found a picture of yet another woman on her husband’s MySpace account.
Choudhry said that woman was Yelena Belorusets, 21, of Brooklyn — who last February was allegedly slapped by Parvaiz in Boston but never pressed charges.
Ironically, Choudhry said, her sister felt threatened by Belorusets — but not by Stephen, despite her unusually close relationship with Parvaiz.
Family and friends of Stephen said they were shocked by the accusation that she killed Noorani.
“This is very difficult for us,” said Sandra Stephen, Antionette’s younger sister. “All of this happened just the other day. She did not do it. I know she did not do it.”
At the Cambridge Best Buy where Stephen worked in sales for the past six months, fellow workers were just as stunned.
“This is very surprising,” one employee said. “I can never imagine her doing anything like what she’s being accused of. She’s bubbly. I think the last time she was here was Monday.”
But Parvaiz’s secret life was no shock to Choudhry.
She called her sister’s relationship with her husband of six years volatile — and violent.
“He beat her many times,” she said.
And in his confession to police, Parvaiz admitted as much, saying he was abusive and a cheater, according to court papers.
Although Choudhry said she urged her sister to leave Parvaiz, “she said, ‘No, I have the kids now.’ ” the sibling said.
“She didn’t know anything about his [bank] account, his computer, his phone, because he wouldn’t allow her,” she said.
“I told my sister he was a psycho man.”
A disturbing online picture also emerged of Parvaiz — as an ambitious manipulator with an inflated ego and unchecked libido.
On MySpace, attractive gal pals checked up on Parvaiz, his kids — and his apparently rocky relationship with his wife.
“Hey babe! Haven’t heard from you in awhile. How is school going? How’s Ry? Did you ever get that apartment? Things working out with the wifey? Hope so,” one woman wrote three years ago.
Even an online bro wondered, “Oye, u single?”
Belorusets, the brainy Brighton Beach coed who had a rocky relationship with Parvaiz, has known him since she was 17. She wrote at one point: “Finally you put up some new pics of Riyaan. Put up some with you and him at the party too.”
Belorusets’ family declined to comment yesterday about her relationship with Parvaiz. Belorusets, who attends SUNY Stony Brook, didn’t answer calls for comment.
Parvaiz presented himself as a doting family man — who was hell on wheels.
In one picture, he’s seen perched on a metallic blue Yamaha motorcycle, wearing a racing jacket and mismatched dress pants and cheap loafers.
And his super-sized ego is apparent: He dubbed himself “the King of Kings,” a reference to Brooklyn, where he once lived.
Meanwhile, the profile of the alleged trigger-woman, Stephen, offers a lone, grim image: a sinister dragon crouching on a mountaintop, with a gloomy sky overhead.
In Boston yesterday, at the seedy apartment where Parvaiz lived — and where Stephen often was seen — cops came with sledgehammers and other tools to bust down the door.
The cops left about two hours later with bags of belongings. Detectives from both New Jersey and Massachusetts gathered at the complex, but did not comment on their task.
By early last night, extradition of Stephen had not yet been completed, and she remained held on $5 million bail in Massachusetts. Parvaiz was still in Morristown Hospital in Jersey recovering from superficial wounds from the attack.
Additional reporting by Marcia Harrison in Boston, and Gary Buiso, Cathy Burke and Kevin Sheehan in New York
