Rashid Abdur murder-police chief on investigation

Title

Rashid Abdur murder-police chief on investigation

Genre

Interview

TX Date

5 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:48

Description

Maggie Shiels interviews Detective Superintendent Geoff Parratt, about a murder investigation into the death of Asian man, Rashid Abdur, whose charred remains were discovered in Epping Forest. Abdur was formerly an Islamic mullah at the Whitechapel mosque in Tower Hamlets, East London and the killing may be religiously motivated.

Contributors

Margaret Shiels; Geoff Parratt

Keywords

London; Homicide; Tower Hamlets; Islam; Essex; Asian peoples; Criminal investigation; Muslims; Rashid Abdur; Epping Forest; Asian communities

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