This is actually quite sad.
A brown man of Asian origin kills wife and kids (found guilty)
I wonder what
his community leaders were doing at the time. Should bhangra music be banned?
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Taxi driver guilty of bludgeoning family to death
Staff and agencies
Tuesday March 13, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Photographs issued by Greater Manchester police of Uzma Rahan, 32, and her sons Abbas (left) and Adam Arshad. Photographs: PA
A taxi driver was today convicted of bludgeoning his wife and three children to death with a rounders bat over her affair with a married man.Rahan Arshad, 36, murdered his family then fled to Thailand, leaving the bodies to remain undiscovered for almost a month.
He beat his wife with the bat more than 23 times in their master bedroom before beating his children to death in their play room.
Arshad, who worked as a driver for Tripps taxis, attacked Uzma Rahan, 32, their sons, Adam, 11, Abbas, eight, and daughter Henna, six, because of his wife's affair with a married man named Nikki, Manchester crown court heard.
The murders are thought to have taken place late on the evening of July 28 last year or early the following morning. Police discovered the four bodies at the house the couple shared in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, on August 20.Ms Rahan's partially clothed body was found in the master bedroom covered with a beige towel. The children's remains were in their play room on the ground floor and had been covered with bedsheets.
The bodies were badly decomposed and some had been infested with maggots. All the victims had been beaten to death with a rounders bat bought by Arshad on July 27 and later found hidden in a bag in the garden shed.
Arshad's new silver BMW was recorded by motorway cameras driving south along the M6 towards Heathrow at around 7am on July 29.
He left his car in the short-stay car park and boarded a flight to Bangkok later that day. Thai police arrested him at the country's border with Malaysia on August 30.
Shortly after being arrested, he told police: "I confess to the murder. My beautiful kids. I don't regret killing that ****ing bitch, but my kids, killing my kids ...".
He refused to answer police questions but gave a statement to prosecutors in January this year in which he claimed his wife killed the children.
Arshad said he returned home after a fight with his wife on the evening of July 28 and found the children lying on the floor of the play room.
He said he went upstairs to confront her and she taunted him by saying: "Are you satisfied now?" Arshad said she murdered the children and he was provoked into killing her, but cannot remember the attack.
The eight-woman, four-man jury retired to consider its verdict earlier today after Mr Justice David Clarke finished his summing-up.