MOTHER-OF-SIX Zainab Begum was described in court as much-loved and respected woman within her family and her community.

The 56-year-old was born in Faisalabad, Pakistan, and emigrated to England with her first husband Noor Mohammed in 1968.

They settled in Huddersfield and had three daughters - Kalsoom, Kauser and Sameena.

Noor died in 1975 and five years later Mrs Begum moved her three daughters to Accrington where she quickly made friends in the community.

In 1983 she married again and had three daughters - Zarina, Farina and Neelam, but she separated from her second husband in 1998.

This was the same year that her daughter Kauser married Mohammed Sharif Khan, known as Shazhad, - the man later to be found guilty of helping his brother dispose of Mrs Begum's body after her murder.

Khan is the brother of Zainab's sister-in-law. When it was thought that that marriage was going well it was arranged that Kauser would marry Khan's younger brother Muhammed Arshad.

In December 2001 Kalsoom, Kauser and their mother travelled to Pakistan for the wedding.

Kalsoom returned to Britain and Arshad followed five months later, in May 2002, after he had been granted a visa to live in the UK.

Arshad and Khan are believed to be from the Peshwar region of Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan.

Little is know about their background in Pakistan, although Arshad is said to have worked as a chef and was also practising herbal medicine and a body builder.

The police even went through Interpol to find out more about their lives before they arrived in Britain, but they have received no information to date from the Pakistani authorities.

Kalsoom and Arshad initially lived with Mrs Begum and her younger daughters Zarina and Neelam at her home in Burnley Road, Accrington, but moved into their own rented home in Avenue Parade, in Accrington, after two months.

But a year later they returned to live in Burnley Road after Mrs Begum collapsed in Accrington town centre and wanted somebody to look after her.

But in July Mrs Begum grew bored of Accrington and moved to Crumpsall, Manchester, to live with Kauser and Khan.

The family did not settle in Manchester and last December moved back to Accrington where they were again living with Kalsoom and Arshad.

Both brothers worked at Hollands Pies, in Baxenden, Arshad in the butchery section. But Khan had been off work sick for about six months and handed his notice in on the day of Zainab's death telling them that he wanted to concentrate on running the Millennium takeaway, in Church Street, Accrington, which he took over the running of on January 6.

Khan had paid the previous leaseholder £6,000 as deposit for rent and stock and it was agreed the remaining £35,000 would be paid at a later date.

Little did the family know this takeaway would be used to store and possibly further dismember their mother's body after her brutal murder at the hands of her son-in-law.