THE family of two children killed in an arson attack can finally move on after one member of the gang responsible had her appeal thrown out.

Fiaz Munshi was described as “only thinking about herself ” after she tried to argue in the Court of Appeal that her 13-year sentence for manslaughter should be cut.

The 39-year-old was part of a group that travelled to Oxford in August 1997 and started a fire that killed eightyear- old Anum Khan and her 15-year-old brother Majid.

Last year she was found guilty of manslaughter because she allowed petrol to be squirted through the letterbox of the Khan family home in Magdalen Road, East Oxford and set alight.

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Five men received life sentences for murder in 1998 and her sister Riaz was jailed for manslaughter in 1999.

Munshi evaded justice because a police error meant she was not arrested until 2013, despite returning to the UK from Pakistan nine years earlier in 2005.

Her barrister Stephen Kamlish QC told three judges that since the fire she had “built a whole new life for herself”, which was now in tatters.

But Lord Justice Pitchford said she had not shown “any degree of real remorse” for what she had done.

And speaking after the appeal was rejected, sister of the two murdered children Shehnaz Akhtar, 43, from Jericho in Oxford, said her family was relieved.

She said: “It was really good news. We are very happy.

“It was very upsetting because they had to go back through some of the facts of that night and the details can be really distressing, especially for our mum.

“It was a worry waiting for the outcome because you never know for sure what will happen.

“It is definitely a big relief and I think that is the end of it now.

“We can get on with our lives and put this behind us.”

Her sister Nazmeen Akhtar, 36, from Oxford, added: “She said it has ruined her life but she needs to stop for a moment and think about our mother.

“Every night she needs to think about what our mother has gone through – she will never see her children again.

“But Fiaz will be able to walk free one day and see her own children.

“She is only thinking about herself.

“I hope every night until she dies she thinks about what she did – taking those two children away.”