Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A handyman horrifically murdered a doctor and her teenage daughter and then made a 'cynical attempt' to place the blame on the schoolgirl, a jury has been told.
The bodies of psychiatrist Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi, 49, and her daughter Vian Mangrio, 14, were found at their fire-damaged home in Burnley, on October 1 last year.
Prosecutor David McLachlan QC told Preston Crown Court how the words 'help me' and 'Covid 19 house my mum is evil' were written on the house's walls, LancsLive reports.
But this was 'an attempt to put the blame onto Vian for her mother’s death', the court heard. It was actually builder and part-time Tesco worker Shahbaz Khan, 51, who
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