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| Fiaz Munshi jailed for 1997 Oxford arson child deaths | Fiaz Munshi jailed for 1997 Oxford arson child deaths |
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| A woman has been jailed for 13 years for her part in killing two children in a revenge arson attack in 1997. | A woman has been jailed for 13 years for her part in killing two children in a revenge arson attack in 1997. |
| Fiaz Munshi travelled with seven others to Amjad Khan's house in Oxford after he broke off their relationship. | |
| Petrol was squirted through the letterbox of the family home and Mr Khan's siblings Majid, 15, and Anum, eight, died in the resulting blaze. | Petrol was squirted through the letterbox of the family home and Mr Khan's siblings Majid, 15, and Anum, eight, died in the resulting blaze. |
| Munshi, 38, of Oldham, was found guilty of manslaughter but cleared of murder. | Munshi, 38, of Oldham, was found guilty of manslaughter but cleared of murder. |
| In a victim impact statement, Amjad Khan said: "My life crumbled when I lost my brother and sister. I feel like the world and life has let me down. Life will never be normal." | |
| His older sister, Billy Akhtar, said the family had suffered for 17 years. | |
| She described Majid and Anum as "beautiful" and said they were "taken away from us in a cowardly way". | |
| Munshi had denied being involved in the firebombing. | |
| She had been in a secret relationship with Amjad but his family disapproved after he was convicted of a drugs offence, so he broke it off. | |
| It was proved that angered by this, and tensions with his family, she conspired with others to set fire to the house in Magdalen Road. | |
| Five men were convicted of the killings in 1998 and Munshi's sister, Riaz, was also convicted of manslaughter. | |
| Munshi was initially arrested in September 1997 but was released without charge due to insufficient evidence and flew back to Pakistan that December. | |
| Just two days later, fresh evidence emerged. | |
| The mother-of-four later returned on her passport to the UK in 2004 and Lancashire Police alerted Thames Valley Police the following year. | |
| Due to a processing error, the information was not acted on until the Khan family asked for an update in 2012. | |
| Det Insp Craig Kirby said it was a "genuine but serious" mistake and said he had "apologised personally" to the family for the eight-year delay in questioning Munshi. |