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26 Aug '23

Police offer £50k for missing mum 'murdered over secret relationship'
Manchester detectives are pursuing the theory that Hadir Al-Enezi, 26 (pictured) was killed for seeing an unmarried man. They have vowed to her would-be killers: 'We aren't going away.'
Detective Chief Inspector Liz Hopkinson, of the force's major incident team, told the paper: 'I would say that if Hadir has been killed it is by somebody who is known to her or by someone connected.
'If this is a murder, someone is willing to murder, without a second thought, a young woman, and mum of a little girl, for me that is someone who really does not have a concern for people or life.'
Ms Al-Enezi and her daughter came to the UK in 2018 as refugees from Kuwait via Greece.
Both are members of the Bidoon Arab minority, who are deemed stateless and cannot access basic services in Kuwait, and are not wanted in neighbouring Iraq.
The hypothesis that she was killed for disgracing her culture has been dismissed by her parents, who are reported to have told police they would have known if their daughter had been in trouble.
But police say other theories - including the idea that she abandoned her daughter and returned to Greece - simply don't hold water.
An insistent DCI Hopkinson told the MEN: 'I want people to come forward and tell me where the body is.'
Over the course of four years police have spoken to more than 20 members of Ms Al-Enezi's family in Greece and Sweden in a bid to piece together what happened to her. Her marriage is understood to have ended before she came to the UK.''
''Detectives believe the answer lies somewhere within either the local communities of Manchester or in her extended family.
Leaflets are being written in Arabic - including in regional dialects - to be distributed among locals.
In a statement issued by GMP on Saturday, DCI Hopkinson said the hypothesis remains that Ms Al-Enezi was 'murdered in a targeted attack'.
She added: 'Throughout our investigation we have worked tirelessly as a team to find her, and we've still not been able to find any proof that Hadir is still alive, and we sadly continue this investigation on the hypothesis that she is not and has come to serious harm.''
Police offer £50,000 reward for information on missing mother’s body
Hadir Al-Enezi was reported missing and detectives opened an investigation in 2019.
Hadir Al-Enezi, originally from Kuwait, arrived in the UK with her daughter on November 7 2018 as a refugee and was taken in by family members living in Rusholme, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
She was reported missing and detectives subsequently opened an investigation in 2019.
GMP’s Major Incident Team are working with the hypothesis she was murdered in a targeted attack, having been a member of the Bidoon Arab minority.''