'Count the days before he kills me': Cheadle cabbie wiped out a family - then tried to blame his glamorous wife
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOne-by-one Rahan Arshad carried his sleeping children downstairs and savagely beat them to death. Eight-year-old Abbas was still wearing his Spiderman pyjamas, Adam, 11, had on an England kit, while daughter Henna was just six-years-old.
Moments earlier Arshad, a taxi driver, had used a rounders bat to murder his semi-naked wife Uzma at their home on Turves Road, Cheadle Hulme.
She suffered 23 injuries to her head in the unimaginable attack. Pathologists needed dental records to confirm the identities of the four victims. Read more:Evil, jealousy and romance: What really happened when Myra Hindley met Rose West behind bars After slaughtering his entire family a blood-spattered Arshad cleaned himself down, scrubbed the bat, hid it in the shed and then packed a bag before fleeing to Thailand.
The badly decomposed bodies were not discovered until almost a month later. Investigating officer Det Supt Martin Bottomley would later describe it as the worst case he had ever dealt with, while Arshad would try to pin the children's murders on his dead wife, before eventually becoming one of the few dozen prisoners in the UK sentenced to a full life term in jail.
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