Picture timeline of events leading up to murder

• 5pm – Muhaned calls Rania to confirm she is bringing the children to his flat for him to see

• 6.40pm – Rania and her children seen on CCTV leaving her house in Cheetham Hill

• 7.28pm – Rania and her children seen on CCTV getting off a bus on Chapel Street, Salford

• 7.31pm – Rania and her children arrive at Arthur Millwood Court

• 8.19pm – Muhaned and Rania’s children leave Arthur Millwood Court

Rania was almost certainly murdered in the proceeding 45 minutes, while the children were in the flat

• 8.36pm – Muhaned and children arrive at their grandparents house on Knutsford Road, Gorton

• 12.01am – Muhaned leaves Arthur Millwood Court with a tent in a holdall, probably used later to either conceal them digging Rania’s grave or to lay her body out on it

• 1.17am Khatib, Muhaned and Hussain set off in the campervan, containing Rania’s body in a red suitcase

• 3.10am The campervan triggers an ANPR camera on the A19 near Thirsk

• 4.54am – The campervan triggers another ANPR camera on the A1, heading south, presumably after the body was buried