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Name: |
Rahan Arshad |
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AKA: |
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D.O.B. |
1970 |
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Kill
Total: |
4 |
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Kill
date: |
August 2006 |
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Kill
Place: |
Manchester |
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Status: |
Widowed |
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Occupation: |
Taxi
Driver |
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Victim: |
Wife
Uzzma, 32
Adam, 11
Abbas,
8
Henna,
6 |
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Court: |
Manchester
Crown Court |
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Case No: |
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Judge: |
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Prosecution: |
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Defence: |
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External References
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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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