Bishop of Chelmsford recalls fleeing Iran in 1980 after brother’s murder

Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani said the family saw her brother’s death as a sacrifice that brought them a chance of a new life in Britain. Photograph: Sarah Taylor/BBC Radio 4/PA

The Bishop of Chelmsford has told of how her brother was murdered in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, leading her to flee to Britain as a child.

On Sunday, the Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani will tell BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs about the day her brother Bahram, 24, was killed in an ambush on 6 May 1980, when she was 14.