Domestic abuse victim feared authorities would ‘take baby away’, inquest told
Janbaz Tarin was convicted in 2018 of murdering his wife Raneem Oudeh and her mother in Solihull
A young mother killed by her "obsessive" partner feared social services would "take her baby away" if she kept reporting his "controlling" and violent behaviour to police, her aunt told an inquest.
Raneem Oudeh, 22, was murdered outside her mother's home in Northdown Road, Solihull, West Midlands, shortly after midnight on August 27th, 2018.
She was killed alongside her mother Khowla Saleem, 49, by her ex-partner Janbaz Tarin, then aged 21.
On her wedding day, he would tell her "in our culture we don't have divorce... the day you leave, I will kill you".
Inquests into the two women's deaths resumed at Birmingham and Solihull Coroner's Court today (31st October). An 11-member jury heard evidence of Ms Oudeh and Tarin's relationship from her aunt, Nour Norris.
Senior coroner Louise Hunt also told jurors they would hear evidence of West Midlands Police's response to several phone calls made by Ms Oudeh to the force about her abusive partner before her death.
In August 2018, Ms Oudeh applied for a non-molestation order, but on the night of August 26, Tarin followed Ms Saleem and Ms Oudeh to the Rotana Shisha Lounge.
Tarin "slapped" her in the restaurant, then followed them as they left.
Ms Hunt told jurors: "The police were called - their response, you'll hear, was delayed due to a firearms incident.
"It was just after midnight Janbaz Tarin murdered Raneem and Khowla outside her address.
"He was subsequently convicted of both murders."
The coroner told jurors they would go through seven tranches of phone calls Ms Oudeh made to police between April and August 2018, to understand "how police responded and also how other agencies responded".
The inquest continues.