Killer in the Family - Fire Starter (Mohammed Riaz)
- 7 years ago
Mohammed Riaz, whose wife and four daughters were killed in an arson attack on their home in Accrington has died in hospital, Lancashire police said today.
Mr Riaz had been pulled from the fire early on Tuesday morning with 50% burns and taken to hospital in Blackburn. He was later transferred to Wythenshawe hospital's specialist burns unit. His wife, Caneze Riaz, 39, and daughters Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 12, Alisha, eight, and Hannah, three, all died in the fire, which ripped through their home early on Tuesday morning. Postmortem examinations showed that all five victims had died in their beds as a result of smoke inhalation. A son, Adam, 17, escaped the fire because he was ill in hospital with leukaemia. Police had been waiting to talk to Mr Riaz after it emerged that the house had been locked up and torched from the inside using accelerants. Mr Riaz had been named as the "top line of inquiry" by detectives. t emerged that Caneze Riaz had left her husband at home to go out with another man just hours before she was killed in the blaze. Sources say they had visited her son in hospital before having dinner in Manchester. Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell, leading the murder inquiry, said: "We are now investigating a line of inquiry that there has been a breakdown in the relationship between Caneze and Mohammed Riaz."
Mr Riaz had been pulled from the fire early on Tuesday morning with 50% burns and taken to hospital in Blackburn. He was later transferred to Wythenshawe hospital's specialist burns unit. His wife, Caneze Riaz, 39, and daughters Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 12, Alisha, eight, and Hannah, three, all died in the fire, which ripped through their home early on Tuesday morning. Postmortem examinations showed that all five victims had died in their beds as a result of smoke inhalation. A son, Adam, 17, escaped the fire because he was ill in hospital with leukaemia. Police had been waiting to talk to Mr Riaz after it emerged that the house had been locked up and torched from the inside using accelerants. Mr Riaz had been named as the "top line of inquiry" by detectives. t emerged that Caneze Riaz had left her husband at home to go out with another man just hours before she was killed in the blaze. Sources say they had visited her son in hospital before having dinner in Manchester. Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell, leading the murder inquiry, said: "We are now investigating a line of inquiry that there has been a breakdown in the relationship between Caneze and Mohammed Riaz."