Family’s fire death may have been mistaken identity

A family murdered in a suspected revenge attack may have been the victims of mistaken identity, a neighbour has said.

Shehnila Taufiq, who was in her 40s, died along with her 19-year-old daughter and sons, aged 17 and 15, when their British home was engulfed in flames early yesterday.

Ms Taufiq’s neurosurgeon husband, Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar, has worked for the past six years in a number of Irish hospitals including Beaumont Hospital and Temple St Children’s Hospital in Dublin.