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FACTFILE
28th August
2006, Arshad attacked his wife in a bedroom and
covered her body with a towel. He then carried each of
his sleeping children downstairs, battering first Abbas,
eight, then Henna, six, and finally Adam, 11. He covered
their bodies after each attack.
Uzzma suffered
23 blows to her head and body from the bat he had bought
the previous day and later hid in his garden shed.
He then drove
to Heathrow in his BMW got on a plane to Bangkok and
travelled on to Phuket.
The
decomposing bodies were found more than three weeks
later after a neighbour smelled rotting flesh.
Tuesday
13th March
2007, Rahan Arshad, told Manchester Crown Court he could not remember bludgeoning his wife Uzma, 32, with a
baseball bat and denied killing his children.
The court was told Arshad may have been motivated by jealousy after discovering his wife was having an affair.
Arshad, of Turves Road, Stockport, Greater Manchester, denied four counts of murder but was convicted by a jury at Manchester Crown Court.
The trial
judge recommended that life should mean life.
Arshad is on the
Home Office list of prisoners who will never b released,
serving a 'Whole life Tariff', see list
here >>
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