Gardai are to help the grief-stricken family of murdered Seema Banu to visit her graves and those of her children in Ireland.
Seema, 37 and her daughter Asfira Riza, 11 and son Faizan Syed, 6 were strangled to death at their home in Llewellyn Court, Rathfarnham, south Dublin in October 2020.
Evil Sameer Syed, 38 was due to stand trial for the three deaths this week but took his own life in his cell in Portlaoise last Thursday.
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Seema’s family were unable to travel to Ireland for the funerals due to lockdown rules, but gardai have now offered to help them come and pay their respects now the pandemic is over.
Seema’s nephew Kashief Ahmed told the Mirror/Star: “It is our tradition that it is not allowed to repatriate the bodies so that is why we were trying to bring them back before burial. We tried a lot to get the bodies home. That was very hurtful to the family.
“The police in Dublin have supported us and they have said they will try to arrange some of the family members to visit the graves.
“Some of them would be happy, at least it could ease the pain.”
We can also reveal on the day that Syed took his own life, Seema’s family had applied for visas to come over for the end of the trial.
The gardai had been assisting them and being financially supported because they come from a poor background.
Asked how the family were doing yesterday, Kashief said: “Everyone is still just grieving and in shock that we can’t get justice.”
IT expert Syed decided that his family would be buried in the Muslim section of Newcastle cemetery in Dublin.
He had denied all involved in his wife and children’s deaths and following their funerals he said he wished he could turn back time and that he wakes every day thinking of his family’s deaths, describing them as a horrible nightmare.
However, he was later caught because the ‘burner’ phone he was carrying on the day of the murders had previously connected with the wifi at his wife’s home.
Seema’s nephew has also revealed how his tragic aunt was planning to flee Ireland and return to her family in India with her children after suffering mental and emotional torture at the hands of her twisted husband who tried to strangle her twice before.
Six months before their deaths, Syed carried out a violent assault on his late wife, and he was due to come before Dublin Circuit on May 16, 2020.
In the meantime, he had been ordered to stay away from the family home and had moved to a new address in Rathmines, south Dublin.
Seema’s nephew told this paper, Syed had attacked her in India and Ireland, and she was planning on returning to her native country.
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