Lucy Lowe
On 5 August 2000, 26-year-old taxi driver Azhar Ali Mehmood started a fire at the Telford home of 16-year-old Lucy Lowe, with whom he had been engaging in illegal sexual activity since she was 14. The fire killed her and her unborn child, her 17-year-old disabled sister Sarah, and her 49-year-old mother Eileen Linda. Her 53-year-old father George survived. Mehmood escaped with Tasnim, his baby daughter by Lowe.
In October 2001, Mehmood was sentenced to three life sentences for the three murders, plus a fourth for the attempted murder of George Lowe. After 18 years, he was eligible for parole. He has been denied parole three times.
Following a 2018 investigation by the Sunday Mirror, the murders have received attention for possible connections to the Telford child sexual exploitation scandal. Tasnim Lowe featured in a BBC Three documentary that year in which she read her mother's diary entries recounting sexual exploitation. She called for West Mercia Police to charge her father with sexual offences, which the force did not do. At a 2022 inquiry, members of the force defended not charging Mahmood with sexual offences.
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