 In January 2010 the family travelled to Newcastle to visit Mrs Afsar and she was persuaded to visit her sister's home in Accrington.Whilst staying at the address on Empress Street, Akhtar, Shamrez Khan and Zahid Mahmood returned to the Newcastle address, took all her belongings and threatened her husband.When the trio returned to Accrington they drugged Mrs Afsar with a sedative hidden in a milky drink and bundled her into a car intending to take her back to the family home in Bradford.