Telford taxi driver who murdered family in fire refused parole againhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-62939177A taxi driver who murdered two teenagers and their mother has for a second time been denied parole.
Azhar Ali Mehmood, then 26, killed 16-year-old Lucy Lowe, the mother of his child, as well as her 17-year-old sister and mother Eileen Linda Lowe, 49.
He was jailed for life in 2001 after starting a fire at the family's home in Telford, Shropshire, in August 2000.
The Parole Board panel also refused to recommend a move to an open prison.
The application, last turned down in 2020, was denied due to the risk to the public, it said.
Lucy Lowe
Lucy Lowe was groomed and exploited by Mehmood from the age of 12
Lucy was legally incapable of consent when she was targeted and groomed by Mehmood at 12 years old.She was pregnant a second time by him when she died in the blaze.
He was jailed for murdering the three by pouring petrol inside the Leegomery house and setting it alight, but was not prosecuted for sex crimes.
Tasnim Lowe
Tasnim Lowe has previously called for an inquiry into her mother's death
Mehmood's daughter Tasnim, who was found wrapped in blankets after the fire, has previously criticised the justice system for not prosecuting her father for child sex offences.
A recent inquiry into child sex abuse in Telford, which referenced the case, found crimes were ignored for generations, leading to more than 1,000 girls being abused.
Agencies blamed children for the abuse they suffered, not the perpetrators, and exploitation was not investigated because of "nervousness about race", its chairman Tom Crowther KC concluded.
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