'We will only cremate them together' The painful wait for couple's remains

In the ramshackle, cramped lanes of Ambika Nagar in the Indian state of Gujarat, everyone spoke of Pooja and Harshit Patel with pride. The couple had done what no one else in their families or among their neighbours had managed before - they had moved abroad, settling among the thriving Gujarati community in Leicester.

- Hannah Ellis-Petersen Anuj Behal

Their lives in Leicester, where the couple had moved so Pooja could complete her business master's degree - later getting a job at Amazon alongside Harshit - seemed unimaginably glamorous to their relatives back in India. Pooja would call her mother, 58-year-old Chandra Mate, at least three times a day with tales of British life and to show off her latest outfits, spinning in front of the mirror.

Mate, who had never left India and had spent most of her life in this small two-bedroom house in Ahmedabad, lived for these calls. Collectively Pooja and Harshit's families, who came from humble and impoverished backgrounds, had spent every penny, sold every piece of ancestral land and jewellery, and pooled every resource to get their children to the UK and to pay for Pooja's degree.