Somaiya Begum was enjoying a well-earned lazy afternoon, curled up on the sofa in her uncle’s terraced home, on the day she went missing.
It had been a gruelling academic year for the talented biomedical science student, but her hard work had paid off. She had scored some of the highest marks in her class at Leeds Beckett University.
But it wasn’t just the strain of her studies that Somaiya had been forced to contend with, she was living with her uncle and grandmother on a crime-ridden street in a rundown area of Bradford out of necessity, not choice.
In fact, it was
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