'Whoever killed my daughter and mother is still out there. If I have to I will find them'

In the aftermath of the murder of her mother and daughter, Saima Mumtaz fell into a dark spiral of despair. It almost ended in her own death, when she took an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets.

But, with remarkable resilience and the rock of her faith, Saima fought back from the brink. Now, 14 years since the night her life changed forever, she's determined to see the killers identified and convicted, and plans to return to Greater Manchester - to see what secrets lie in the community she left.

It was on June 23, 2008, that a green wheelie bin outside Saima's family home in Bolton was set alight. Saima's mother, Hameeda Begum, 71, suffered 90 percent burns and died one and a half hours later. Saima's daughter, Alana Mian, aged four, died almost six weeks later.

Firefighter Steve Morris, who courageously tried to tackle the blaze and rescue Mrs Begum, suffered horrific, career-ending burns, spending nine months in hospital.

Saima needed nine skin grafts and treatment at Wythenshawe Hospital and a specialist centre in Leicester for collapsed lungs and burns to her face and body. She spent a month in an induced coma.

Only Saima's father, retired bus driver and jeweller Mumtaz Chisty escaped unharmed. He managed to get out and got a ladder from neighbours to run back and save the family, but was held back by other residents from going into the inferno.

The head of GMP's Cold Case Unit, who are investigating the case, told the Manchester Evening News that he believes it was a 'malicious, racist attack'.

Saima, who was only 24 at the time, has now written a book - The Returned Soul - about what she has been through. Its opening words are stark and chilling, from a memory fractured by deep trauma and loss.

"The night my