Twenty-two-year-old Sana Abbasi was originally from Pakistan, but had moved to the UK after an arranged marriage. She lived with her husband Fiaz Rehman in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
In the spring of 2009, Sana gave birth to a healthy baby daughter and seemed to have no complications. However, shortly after the birth, Sana began to suffer from a mysterious illness whose symptoms included numbness in her limbs and severe stomach pains. She was in the hospital for weeks and doctors were unable to determine the cause.
At one point, she appeared to have recovered and was sent home, but she soon began exhibiting the same symptoms and had to be rushed back into intensive care. She died on July 1st, 2009.
After an investigation, police determined that Sana had most likely been poisoned, though two post-mortem examinations failed to reveal the substance that had been used. Some who were familiar with the case, including Sana’s sister Zunash, believed that Sana may have been killed with paraquat, a powerful weed killer that most famously had been the weapon of choice in a 1985 series of indiscriminate murders in Japan.
Later in 2009, four people—including Sana’s husband, her mother-in-law Rukhsana, and an unnamed man and woman—were arrested in connection with the crime, but all were released without charge. Since then, there have been no further updates, and the tragic murder of Sana Abbasi remains unsolved.
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