THE home where a man brutally murdered a doctor and her 14-year-old daughter has hit the market for £125,000.
In October 2020, the bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi, 49, and Vian Mangrio, 14, who dreamed of becoming a barrister, were discovered at their fire-damaged home in Burnley, Lancashire.
Shabhaz Khan, a former computer network engineer in his native Pakistan, strangled psychiatrist Dr Sacharvi and attacked her teenage daughter when she returned from school.
Dr Sacharvi suffered bruising to the inside of her throat and was found with a woollen item wrapped around her neck and in her mouth.
Both victims were drugged with diazepam.
The killer set their bodies and a kettle in the kitchen alight to suggest the deaths had been caused by an electrical fire.
He pleaded guilty to the murders at Preston Crown Court and was jailed for a minimum of 34 years.
Vian’s severely burned body was found in the lounge of the semi-detached property in Colne Road, Reedley, on October 1 2020.
A subsequent attempt was made to set Dr Sacharvi’s body alight in the front bedroom upstairs.
Now, the scene of those brutal crimes has hit the market for £125,000.
Estate agent Rightmove starkly told would-be punters: “The previous owner was murdered inside the home in 2020.
“The property has sustained some fire and smoke damage.”
The semi-detached property has remained boarded up since the brutal double murder.
Khan was arrested after CCTV footage from September 30 showed him visiting the home where he had previously carried out work, including a garage conversion.
But the killer denied responsibility, and instead told cops that two ghosts called Robert and Rita had committed the murders.
Police later found jewellery worth tens of thousands of pounds belonging to Dr Sacharvi in the loft of Khan’s home in Ribble Avenue, Burnley.
Also recovered from his address was a purple Samsung phone which contained Google searches on the morning of September 30 for “obsessed” and “defined obsessed”.
Khan’s wife, Rabia Shahbaz, was jailed for 30 months after a jury found her guilty of perverting the course of justice when she provided a false alibi for her husband.
Sentencing Khan, who was ordered to serve a minimum of 34 years in prison before being eligible for parole, Mr Justice Goss, sitting at Preston Crown Court, said: “These were premeditated, callous and merciless murders of a devoted mother and her young and loving teenage daughter.
“The murders were planned and motivated by financial gain.”
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