‘Previous owner murdered inside’: Estate agent’s honest sale description of £125k house of horror
Real estate agents are sometimes ridiculed for economically stating facts to attract the attention of potential buyers.
But when a fire-ravaged house in which a mother and daughter were brutally murdered came up for sale, one of the house auctioneers decided honesty was the best policy and wrote in graphic detail: ‘The previous owner was murdered inside.’
The burnt rooms and belongings of 49-year-old Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and 14-year-old Vian Mangrio show the devastation caused by handyman Shabaz Khan, who set their three-bedroom house on fire in an attempt to cover up his crimes.
Khan, 57, fed his victims drug-laced smoothies before charging them with murder-suicide.
The semi-detached property in Burnley, Lancashire, has remained eerily untouched and boarded up for five years since the murders.
Photos of the property on Rightmove show fire damage to the living room and bedroom where the two victims’ bodies were found by police, and the couple’s belongings piled up but not thrown away. The kitchen and bathroom were also damaged by smoke.
According to the estate agent: ‘The previous owner was murdered inside the house in 2020. ‘There was some fire and smoke damage to the property.’
The house, which is expected to be sold via auction, was put up for sale last month with a guide price of £125 thousand.
The house in Burnley, Lancs, where Dr Sacharvi and Vian were murdered in September 2020 remains boarded up
Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi and her 14-year-old daughter Vian Mangrio (pictured) were killed for their jewelery
The charred remains of the living room (pictured)
The kitchen (pictured) was also damaged in the fire
The belongings of the murdered mother and daughter are still inside the house
Killer Shabaz Khan set fire to house to cover up his crimes
Evil Khan was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murder of Dr Sacharvi and Vian on September 30, 2020. Khan’s wife, 50-year-old Rabia Shahbaz, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perverting the course of justice by providing him with a false alibi.
Dr. The bodies of Sacharvi and Vian were discovered on October 1, 2020, after police were called to their home address due to concerns for their welfare.
While Vian’s body was found badly burned in a downstairs room, Dr. Sacharvi’s body was found upstairs. Attempts were also made to burn his body, but the fire could not be brought under control.
Khan, who is married and the father of four children, tried to cover his tracks by staging a murder-suicide. He had written ‘my mother is bad’ and ‘this is a Covid house’ on the walls to suggest there was a disagreement between mother and daughter.
In reality, before killing them both, Dr. He drugged Sacharvi and Vian by giving them a smoothie with diazepam, also known as Valium, mixed with wine and fruit. He set fire to the bodies and the kettle in the kitchen to suggest that the deaths were caused by an electrical fire.
As a result of the autopsy, Dr. It was concluded that Sacharvi died from pressure applied to her neck and was probably strangled with a ligature.
Shahbaz Khan (pictured) pleaded guilty to murdering Dr Sacharvi, 49, and his daughter Vian, 14, at Preston Crown Court on September 30, 2020.
Khan’s wife Rabia Shahbaz (pictured), 45, gave him a false alibi and was found guilty of committing an act with intent to pervert the course of justice.
In the attic of Khan’s house, Dr. Sacharvi’s jewelery worth around £27,000 (pictured) was found
Vian’s body was so badly burned that the pathologist could only say that ‘on the balance of probabilities’ he had died of asphyxiation. He had bruises on the inside of his throat and was found with a woolen item wrapped around his neck and mouth.
Following his arrest, Khan initially denied responsibility and strangely told police that ghosts named Robert and Rita were responsible for the deaths.
But officers later discovered jewelery belonging to the doctor, valued at £27,000, in the attic of Khan and Shahbaz’s home.
Sentencing Khan, who was sentenced to a minimum of 34 years in prison before being eligible for parole, Mr Justice Goss, sitting at Preston Crown Court, said: ‘These were deliberate, callous and brutal murders of a devoted mother and her young and loving teenage daughter.
‘The murders were planned and motivated for financial gain.’
