Labour MP Naz Shah on her mother’s murder trial: ‘When she was found guilty, I believed I’d witnessed a monumental miscarriage of justice’

2026-02-23 - 10:33

An exclusive extract from her memoir • ‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: read an interview with Naz Shah On 11 April 1992, Uncle Azam died of complications from gastroenteritis. He was always kind and generous towards me, and his death was a terrible shock. Although he was married and we knew his family, without ever being told about it, I knew there was “something” going on between Azam and my mum. I hadn’t been raised to ask questions, so there was no way I would have ever challenged Mum on what she was doing. I had no idea of the horrific reality that lay behind that “something”. Everything changed with Azam’s sudden death. Before long, strange rumours began to circulate within the community about Azam, Mum and the relationship between them. I had no idea, and wouldn’t know for years, that Mum was in a coercive, abusive relationship with him. Much more shocking were the terrible rumours swirling that Azam had behaved badly towards me – and Mum had killed him. Continue reading...