Father 'clubbed family to death'

A cab driver allegedly clubbed his wife and three children to death with a rounders bat because he thought she was having an affair, a court has heard.
Rahan Arshad, 36, then fled to Thailand - leaving the bodies undiscovered at the family home in Turves Road, Cheadle Hulme, Manchester - for almost a month.
Paul Reid QC, prosecuting, told the jury the evidence they would hear would be distressing.
Mr Arshad denies four counts of murder at Manchester Crown Court.
The jury heard when Mr Arshad was arrested, he said: "I confess to the murder. My beautiful kids, I don't regret killing that bitch, but my kids, killing my kids..."
The court was told he killed his wife Uzma Rahan, 32, sons Adam, 11, and Abbas, eight, and daughter Henna, six, in July.
Mr Reid told the jury the couple had an arranged marriage in 1992 but their relationship hit the rocks from before Easter 2003 because Mr Arshad believed his wife was having an affair.
He said: "Despite Uzma's denials to many about the affair, including her family and friends, the affair was an open secret and lasted until about April 2006."
Mr Reid claimed that in the months before her murder, Mr Arshad admitted threatening to kill his wife and children.
He told the jury that on 27 July Mr Arshad, whom he described as "jealous and possessive" bought an 18-inch (45cm) rounders bat.
Blood samples
DNA traces from all the family members were recovered from the bat and blood samples were found on the trainers Mr Arshad was wearing when he was arrested, the court heard.
The jury was told that Mr Arshad left his car in the short stay car park at Heathrow before boarding a flight to Bangkok.
Although Mr Arshad had booked a return flight on 18 August, he failed to board the aeroplane.
He was stopped on 30 August at the Thailand-Malaysia border.
In a defence statement to prosecutors, Mr Arshad claimed he had returned home to find his children dead and that he had bludgeoned his wife to death with the rounders bat because he believed she had murdered them.

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