First pictures of death plunge model 'marrying' her lover in Muslim ceremony

From the Daily Mail:

These are the pictures of the model who plunged 150ft to her death on what was the happiest day of her life.

Radiating pure joy, Sahar Daftary 'married' property developer Rashid Jamil in a Muslim ceremony in Brentford, west London, last December.

But what the 23-year-old didn't know was her new 'husband' was in fact already married and that his wife had given birth only months before.

Sahar Daftary smiles as Rashid Jamil kisses her on their wedding day last year. She died after falling from his 12th floor luxury apartment

Ms Daftary fell from a balcony high up on Mr Jamil's luxury apartment block in Salford Quays, Manchester, on Saturday.

Prior to the death, she had walked out on Mr Jamil after discovering the truth behind his double life. 

He has been arrested and bailed until February in connection with her death.

Ms Daftary's family today urged police not to write off her death as suicide.

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The happy couple 'wed' in Brentford, west London in December 2007

Ms Daftary shows off her wedding ring

Her brother-in-law Joe Karim said: 'She would never commit suicide. It was against everything she believed in. She had everything to live for. 

'She was a beautiful, intelligent, religious woman, why would she kill herself ?' 

A statement on behalf of Ms Daftary's family reads: 'The family are devastated at the tragic loss of Sahar. 

'She had booked a flight to Dubai to celebrate her 24th birthday on Christmas Day with five friends. 

'We firmly believe there is no way she would have committed suicide.' 

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The couple surrounded by family members during their wedding ceremony

Her family's discontent over the suicide claim arises from her unhappy relationship with property developer Mr Jamil.

Ms Daftary had quit her job as a personal shopper in Harrods to move to Manchester with Mr Jamil. 

They lived for several months in the Salford Quays flat, from which she fell to her death, before she moved back to London. 

It also emerged that a pornographic video clip apparently featuring Miss Daftary and an unnamed man had recently been posted on a publicly-accessible website.

A picture of Ms Daftary taken from the Facebook page set up in the wake of her death

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The Facebook page is entitled 'Remembering Princess Sahari'

She was said to have feared the footage would damage her career, and police are expected to examine whether somebody had made it public out of spite.

Friends said they believed it was linked to her break-up and that she had feared it would undermine her prospects of becoming a successful model.

Friends said the aspiring model, who last year won the title Miss Face of Asia in one of Britain's biggest modelling contests, had discovered that he was married and also had a young child about six months ago. They then split up.

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'Remembering Princess Sahari''

What is thought to be an emotion-filled account of the break-up was written under her name on a blog last month.

One entry read: 'Just look at the tiny shattered pieces of your heart that you don't even know where to start... Which do you pick up first?

'What about those beautiful dreams that you allowed to be built right before your eyes, within your heart, those dreams which were what kept you going what about them?

'Those are gone too, everything is gone...' 

Miss Daftary had travelled from her London home to Manchester at the weekend to take part in a fashion show at an Indian restaurant, but went instead to clear her possessions out of Mr Jamil's £200,000 flat.

The luxury apartment block from which Ms Daftary plunged to her death

Her friend, Afrah Sami, said: 'We are all shocked and devastated. Sahar was very beautiful - she loved life and she was always the centre of the party.

'She met him in Manchester and they were very happy. Then she won the Face of Asia competition and got several big contracts. She seemed to have the world at her feet.

'But she discovered he was married and she became very unhappy. The stress changed her and she had stopped eating properly.

'When she came up on Saturday she was very distracted and preoccupied with collecting her things from the apartment, but he didn't want to see her.'

That evening she went to his flat at the 17-storey NV Buildings in Salford Quays, close to Manchester United's Old Trafford ground.

Model looks: Ms Daftary's family have urged police not to write off her death as suicide. Here she poses with a friend

Moments before she fell, Mr Jamil had made a desperate 999 call, apparently from his marital home in nearby Salford, to say he needed help, but by the time police reached the waterfront building, it was too late.

There is believed to have been confusion over exactly where he was, and by the time they reached the flat Miss Daftary had fallen to her death.

A police source said: 'Witnesses have said there was no shouting or ranting - just a single scream. It is being looked at as either suicide or a horrible accident.'

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Stunning: The dead woman was named Miss Asia 2007. She was in Manchester for a modelling job

At her family's terraced home in Brentford, West London, her relatives said they could not understand what had happened.

Her brother-in-law, Timor, said: 'She was a very nice girl. She used to be a model but she was studying. Her mother is heartbroken and it's all fresh at the moment.'

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said inquiries were under way and a 33-year-old man was arrested in connection with the death and has been bailed.