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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Neal Keeling

'Whoever killed my daughter and mother is still out there. If I have to I will find them'

In the aftermath of the murder of her mother and daughter, Saima Mumtaz fell into a dark spiral of despair. It almost ended in her own death, when she took an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets.

But, with remarkable resilience and the rock of her faith, Saima fought back from the brink. Now, 14 years since the night her life changed forever, she's determined to see the killers identified and convicted, and plans to return to Greater Manchester - to see what secrets lie in the community she left.

It was on June 23, 2008, that a green wheelie bin outside Saima's family home in Bolton was set alight. Saima's mother, Hameeda Begum, 71, suffered 90 percent burns and died one and a half hours later. Saima's daughter, Alana Mian, aged four, died almost six weeks later.

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