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A 25-year-old woman found dead after a fire at her home in 2008 was most probably murdered, a coroner has said.Newly-wed Kuldeep Sidhu was found strangled, curled up at the foot of her stairs with a ligature around her neck and an apparent suicide note nearby.
Mrs Sidhu, from Quinton in Birmingham, who was in the early stages of pregnancy, was killed unlawfully, coroner Aidan Cotter ruled.
After the fire, police said they were treating her death as murder.
In a statement after the inquest, Det Sgt Andrew Houston from West Midlands Police, said: "We echo the coroner's comments heard over the last two days of the inquest and we firmly believe that the answer does lie with the wider family."
Vital information
Last year, detectives released part of the suicide note saying it was written by someone else and proved someone knew of her death.
The author of the note was not necessarily responsible for killing her but could have vital information about the circumstances of her death, officers said.
Mrs Sidhu, a nursery nurse and known to her family and friends as Kully, was last seen by her husband before he left for work on the morning of 14 May.
Fire crews found her body after being called to the fire at Glyn Farm Road, in Quinton.
At her inquest, coroner Mr Cotter said evidence that the murderer gained access to the house, wrote the suicide note and left the home on fire indicated she had not been killed by a stranger.
Although efforts to find her killer had so far been fruitless, he was confident her murderer would be brought to justice sooner or later, he added.
No-one has ever been arrested in connection with Mrs Sidhu's death.
Det Sgt Houston repeated an appeal for anyone who saw Mrs Sidhu around the time of her death to contact police.
"We are still keen to trace Kuldeep's final movements and speak to anybody who may have seen her on 13 or 14 May, particularly if anyone saw her travelling home from work on the Tuesday evening, catching the number 11 bus to Harborne and then the 103 to Quinton."This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.