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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

IOPC investigates police contact with woman poisoned by in-laws

Ambreen Fatima Sheikh
Ambreen Fatima Sheikh, who will never recover from her vegetative state. Photograph: Family handout/PA

The police watchdog has launched an investigation into the contact that officers had with a woman who was poisoned with prescription pills and doused with a corrosive substance by members of a family she had joined in an arranged marriage.

Ambreen Fatima Sheikh was left in a persistent vegetative state from which she will never recover. A judge at Leeds crown court last week sentenced five members of the same family for their part in bringing about Sheikh’s catastrophic injuries.

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