Head teacher burned herself to death after being suspended over bullying allegations

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Nassim Akhtar, 40, was suspended from her primary school in Manchester last November over claims she had bullied staff and used inappropriate language.

Two months later the mother-of-five was found dead in the back of her burnt-out car, parked in a secluded farm track.

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Mrs Nassim Akhtar (top left) with her family

Mrs Akhtar was appointed head of Cheetwood Community Primary School in Cheetham Hill last September.

The former deputy head of Bradley Primary School in Nelson was told to stay away from Cheetwood School on November 13 pending a formal investigation.

Blackburn Coroner's Court was told that Mrs Akhtar left her home in Mayville Road, in Brierfield, near Nelson, between 2.50pm and 2.45pm on January 4 this year.

She asked her husband, Jameel, 27, to pick up their children from school and told him she would return "a short time later".

At about 4.15pm a passing motorist spotted a burnt-out vehicle on a farm track off Burnley Road, in Altham.

Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner Michael Singleton said he was satisfied that Mrs Akhtar had doused herself with paraffin and then set herself alight.

Mr Singleton said she died from a combination of the inhalation of the products of combustion and extensive burns to her body.

He expressed his condolences to the family, who were too upset to comment after the hearing.