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  Detectives have betrayed us, claims family of 'Face of
  Asia' death plunge model
  
  
  Mother and sister's fury over blunders in investigation
  
  Police gave back the wrong clothes - then callously joked
  'They must be Manchester size'
  
  By Robert Verkaik for The Mail on Sunday
  Updated: 20:57 EDT, 3 December 2011
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Model daughter: Sahar Daftary who died after falling from a high
  rise building in Salford Quays
  
  
  
  
  For Anisa Daftary, it was the final insult to
  the memory of her beautiful daughter, who died after falling
  150 ft from the balcony of her former lover's flat in Manchester.
  
  
  
  Police officers had arrived at the family home in London with two
  black bin liners, which Anisa thought would contain her daughter Sahar's personal possessions.
  
  
  But when she opened the bags, she  discovered
  a random collection of clothes and shoes that were far too big for her petite daughter, a recent winner of an international beauty contest.
  
  
  
  When Anisa challenged the officers, they callously joked that
  the clothes must be ‘Manchester sizes' - implying that
  women in the North of England are overweight compared with their southern counterparts.
  
  
  
  In her first interview since Sahar's mysterious death in December 2008, Anisa, a 57-year-old widow from Afghanistan but now based in Brentford, West London, reveals how the appalling blunder
  was typical of a police investigation that she says betrayed her daughter.
  
  
  
  Anisa said: ‘I feel the police have failed to carry out
  a proper investigation into my daughter's death.
  
  
  They have let down Sahar and they have let down our family.'
  
  
  The body of Sahar, a model who was working at
  Harrods, was found at the bottom of a Manchester quayside tower block.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Sahar went there to meet Rashid Jamil, 36, whom she had secretly married in a Muslim ceremony
  in 2007, the same year she won the global Face Of Asia beauty
  award. Sahar, 23, had separated from Mr Jamil after discovering her ‘husband' was already married to another Muslim woman with whom he had fathered two children.
  
  
  
  
  Betrayal: Anisa Daftary and daughter Mariam Daftary-Karim
  feel the police inquiry into Sahar's death was deeply
  flawed
  
  
  On December 20, 2008, Sahar went to Manchester to take part in a
  fashion show and afterwards visited Mr Jamil
  to retrieve her possessions, which included
  designer clothes and family photo albums.
  
  
  Sahar's sister, Mariam Daftary-Karim, 33, said: ‘We don't believe Sahar would have
  committed suicide.
  
  Two people were alone in that flat, but only one person was left alive.
  We want to know the truth of what happened when they
  were together that night.'
  
  
  Despite repeated requests from the family, it was four months after Sahar's death before Greater Manchester Police said they could return her belongings.
  
  
  
  
  
  But the family's hope quickly turned to despair
  when they saw the jumbled contents of the bin liners.
  
  
  And when Anisa challenged the officers, she says their response horrified her.
  
  ‘They just laughed and said the clothes were Manchester sizes,'
  she said.
  
  
  ‘I thought I was going to get my daughter's clothes back,
  but they just joked. I was crying. It was so
  terrible after all that we had suffered.
  
  
  
  
  ‘She was the youngest of my five daughters and, ever since
  my husband died in a motoring accident, I have tried to protect her.'
  
  
  
  
  Double life: Businessman Rashid Jamil with Sahar at their Muslim
  wedding in 2007
  
  
  Mariam said: ‘My sister was very petite.
  
  She was a size 6 to 8 and these dresses were size 14. The shoes were several sizes too big as well.
  
  
  
  ‘They looked as if they had been picked up from a charity shop and the police hadn't bothered to check.
  We didn't recognise any of the clothes.'
  The family also claim that police officers didn't interview
  them until two weeks after Sahar's death.
  
  
  
  
  The family solicitor, Richard Slade, describes the
  delay as ‘extraordinary'.
  
  
  He says that because the police had arrested Mr Jamil over an allegation of murder and he had claimed she may have committed suicide,
  they should have prioritised assessing Sahar's state of mind just before her
  death.
  
  
  
  
  He added: ‘It's very disappointing that more vigorous measures were
  not taken in this case. It was the family's impression that
  the police seemed to have decided it was suicide, which tarnished their approach
  to the rest of the investigation. The family
  found it very difficult to get any information at all from the police.'
  
  
  The family have instructed leading QC James Lewis to challenge Mr Jamil
  over his version of the circumstances in which Sahar fell
  from his luxury flat.
  
  Mr Jamil's solicitor has repeatedly insisted that he was not
  responsible for her death.
  
  
  The family will also accuse the police of treating them heartlessly and of squandering vital time in the initial stages of the
  investigation.
  
  
  And yesterday it was revealed that Greater Manchester Police had
  asked for an 11th-hour adjournment to the inquest into Sahar's death, which had been due to
  start tomorrow, to allow the force to consult lawyers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Betrayal: Rashid Jamil with Narhisa Amjad, who was also his wife under
  sharia law
  
  
  Sahar met Mr Jamil, a businessman, at a party organised by a fashion magazine in 2006.
  
  
  But because he was Pakistani, she kept the relationship secret.
  Her four older sisters had all married Afghan men.
  
  
  A year passed before Sahar told them about her
  boyfriend. Mariam remembers: ‘She was impressed by him.
  
  I remember her saying that he was not like some other Asian men.
  
  
  
  ‘She said, "He's open-minded and doesn't want to control me." I remember being happy for
  her.'
  
  
  But when they met Mr Jamil in Brentford, the family's perception of him changed.
  
  
  
  ‘He drove down in a black Range Rover, but was drinking vodka and kept getting us to drink.
  I didn't trust him with my sister.'
  
  
  Her sister Roha was so suspicious she asked Mr Jamil direct whether he had been married before.
  
  Mariam recalls: ‘He said he hadn't and claimed
  he only wanted to marry Sahar.'
  
  
  Mariam said he appeared very anxious that their mother wouldn't approve of him because he didn't share their culture.
  He jokingly told them: ‘Tell her not to worry because, although I come from
  Pakistan, I'm not a terrorist.'
  
  
  When Anisa finally met Mr Jamil at a restaurant in Knightsbridge,
  Central London, to mark the end of Ramadan, the month
  of fasting in the Islamic calendar, she remembers feeling ‘instinctively uneasy' about him.
  
  
  ‘He told me he would "not let me down",' she
  recalls.
  
  
  But the couple didn't wait for  Anisa's approval.
  Mr Jamil and Sahar moved in together in Manchester before secretly
  marrying in a sharia ceremony at a mosque in Southall, West London, in 2007.
  
  
  
  Tragic: The flats from which Sahar fell to her death
  
  
  Just a few months later, Anisa was contacted by Narhisa Amjad, who claimed to be married to Mr
  Jamil and was expecting their second child.
  
  
  
  
  Mariam said: ‘It was shocking. We told Sahar
  that she must come home to London and leave him.'
  
  
  
  But Sahar didn't believe the family until she spoke to
  Narhisa, who had sent two photographs of her with Mr Jamil, on the phone at
  a hotel in Manchester where the model was staying
  with Mr Jamil.
  
  
  
  
  According to the family, Mr Jamil told Sahar that he didn't
  want to live with Narhisa any more and that she had not been a good wife.
  
  
  
  ‘He must have persuaded her to stay with him because she wouldn't leave him,' said Mariam.
  
  
  
  It was only then that Sahar told the family about the secret wedding
  and said she wanted a party for all of the family the following year.
  
  
  
  
  
  Concerned for Sahar's happiness, they agreed to an extravagant ceremony with 200 guests.
  Once again, alarm bells started to ring.
  
  
  Mariam remembers Mr Jamil being reluctant for the event to go
  ahead and he only invited one friend to the ceremony.
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘He said his father was very religious and wouldn't like
  him marrying a woman who wasn't Pakistani,' she said.
  
  ‘But we know now that he liked to manipulate women.'
  
  
  Soon after the wedding, the couple started rowing and they broke up when it became clear Mr Jamil did not want to move to London and wasn't prepared to
  register their marriage with the civil authorities.
  
  
  
  
  Mariam said: ‘Sahar came back to London to live with our mother.
  She had got over him and had everything to live for.
  
  
  
  
  ‘She had started studying finance and accounting at university.
  
  
  
  On the day after her death, we were expecting her at home because
  she was due to fly out on holiday to Dubai to celebrate her birthday.'
  
  
  The Mail on Sunday put the detailed claims of Anisa and
  her daughter  to Greater Manchester Police.
  
  It refused to comment, instead reissuing a 2010 statement
  by Detective Inspector Stephen Keeley relating to the case.
  
  
  
  
  He said: ‘Following the tragic death of Sahar in December 2008, a thorough investigation was carried
  out by Greater Manchester Police.
  
  A file was prepared for the Crown Prosecution Service, which
  reviewed the case and decided that no charges should be brought against the [then] 33-year-old man arrested.
  
  
  
  ‘My thoughts go out to Sahar's  family at this difficult time
  but I am  satisfied as a result of our investigation that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.'
  
  
  Mr Jamil's solicitor, James Dyson, said yesterday his client had dealt with
  these issues during the ‘comprehensive police investigation'.
  
  
  
  He added: ‘My client has given a full account to
  the police and he has always denied being responsible for the death.'
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