08-05-2025
Mumtaz Member 'unlawfully killed' at home as death remains unsolved
A mum who was found dead in her family home almost a decade ago was "unlawfully killed" a coroner has ruled - but her death remains "unresolved". Mumtaz Member, 56, was found with excessive injuries to her head, face and neck in a bedroom of her home in Stoneygate, Leicester, on 12 December 2015. Leicestershire Police launched a murder investigation at the time, leading to murder charges against her two sons and daughter-in-law, which were later a seven-day inquest at Leicester Coroner's Court, senior coroner Professor Catherine Mason said "on the balance of probabilities, Mumtaz was killed by a person or persons unidentified".
Mrs Member's sons Mohammed and Shafiq and Shafiq's wife Fatima, were all charged with murder, but the charges were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service in February 2016 due to "insufficient evidence". The inquest was a finding of fact to determine how Mrs Member came about her death, not to find fault. Mrs Member's family has always maintained that she was killed not by her children but by an intruder and said Mohammed, Shafiq and Fatima "should never have been charged in the first place".
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