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Murder of the Khan Family, 1981
Arson attack on a Walthamstow house that took the lives of a woman and her three children
Place of event
Belgrave Road, Walthamstow, London
About
In July 1981 petrol was poured through the letterbox of a house in Walthamstow, leading to a fire that swept up the stairs killing Parveen Khan and her three children. Khan's husband, Mohammed Yunus Khan, survived by jumping from an upstairs bedroom. While the attack was widely believed by residents to be a racist hate crime, the police disputed this, and the perpetrators were never identified.
Mohammed Yunus Khan, Parveen Khan.
Manoharajah, Satiyesh and Thind, Rajesh (dirs) Defiance: Fighting the Far Right (Channel 4, 2024)
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
