Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Man convicted of murdering family - BBC News
Rahan Arshad, 36, beat his family to death with a rounders bat at their home in ... Greater Manchester, before fleeing to Thailand last July.
The bodies of Uzma Rahan, 32, and children Adam, 11, Abbas, eight, and Henna, six, were not found for a month.
The court was told Arshad may have been motivated by jealousy after discovering his wife was having an affair.
...
"You beat your wife to death in her bedroom and then coldly and deliberately you brought your sleepy children downstairs to meet their deaths. ...
During his trial, the jury heard how Arshad battered Uzma with more than 23 blows in their bedroom before beating his children to death in their playroom.
Their bodies were so badly decomposed that police needed dental records to confirm their identities.
He had planned the murders in advance, buying the rounders bat the day before and booking his ticket to Thailand more than two weeks earlier.
...
When arrested he told officers: "I confess to the murder. My beautiful kids, I don't regret killing
that bitch, but my kids, killing my kids..."
Rahan Arshad, 36, beat his family to death with a rounders bat at their home in ... Greater Manchester, before fleeing to Thailand last July.
The bodies of Uzma Rahan, 32, and children Adam, 11, Abbas, eight, and Henna, six, were not found for a month.
The court was told Arshad may have been motivated by jealousy after discovering his wife was having an affair.
...
"You beat your wife to death in her bedroom and then coldly and deliberately you brought your sleepy children downstairs to meet their deaths. ...
During his trial, the jury heard how Arshad battered Uzma with more than 23 blows in their bedroom before beating his children to death in their playroom.
Their bodies were so badly decomposed that police needed dental records to confirm their identities.
He had planned the murders in advance, buying the rounders bat the day before and booking his ticket to Thailand more than two weeks earlier.
...
When arrested he told officers: "I confess to the murder. My beautiful kids, I don't regret killing
that bitch, but my kids, killing my kids..."
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