Stab victim ‘killed as she spoke to police’
A POLICE force is facing an investigation after a woman who was stabbed to death along with her mother died while on the phone to officers.
West Midlands Police confirmed that Raneem Oudeh, 22, made several calls for help on Sunday evening.
Later, while talking again to a call handler, she was attacked.
Miss Oudeh was found stabbed to death alongside her mother Khaola Saleem, 49, outside Mrs Saleem’s house in Solihull in the early hours of Monday.
A referral concerning West Midlands Police’s contact with the women has been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
In a statement issued yesterday, the force said: “Following speculation over police contact with the victim on the evening, we are clarifying the following points.
“There were a number of calls from Miss Oudeh to police on Sunday evening and we tried to physically locate her but were unsuccessful.
“Contact was being made to arrange to see Miss Oudeh and it was during this conversation that the situation quickly escalated and the call handler immediately dispatched officers to the location in Northdown Road, where they arrived within minutes.”
Police are hunting Miss Oudeh’s former partner, Afghan national Janbaz Tarin, in connection with the deaths and have searched three addresses linked to him.
It emerged Ms Oudeh had a two-year-old son, although Tarin is not the father.
She and her mother moved to England from Syria about 14 years ago.