IOPC investigates police contact with woman poisoned by her in-laws

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Two officers carried out welfare check on Ambreen Fatima Sheikh weeks before attack in 2015

The police watchdog has launched an investigation into contact officers had with a woman who was poisoned with prescription pills and doused with a corrosive substance by members of a family she had joined in an arranged marriage.

Ambreen Fatima Sheikh was left in a persistent vegetative state from which she will never recover. A judge at Leeds crown court last week sentenced five members of the same family for their part in bringing about Sheikh’s catastrophic injuries.

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