One-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.
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