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Paul Healy & Michael O'Toole

Killer dad's sick plot to frame wife with staged murder-suicide exposed after CCTV blunder

Evil killer Sameer Syed tried to stage a murder-suicide in a bid to frame his slain wife Seema for the horrific deaths of their two children that he killed alongside her.

We can today reveal how the scheming monster wrote a note on Seema’s laptop in the moments just after he had killed his wife, daughter Asfira, 11 and son Faizan, six, to make it look like she had done it.

“That’s how evil his mind was working at that moment,” a source said on Friday night.

READ MORE: Man due to face trial next week for murder of family in Dublin found dead in Midlands Prison

“Not only did he kill his poor wife and their two children, but he wanted people to believe that she was the one who had actually done it.”

Monster Syed, 37, was branded a “coward” after he took his own life in his cell in the Midlands Prison on Thursday, just days before his trial over the triple murder in October 2020.

Now we can reveal how:

  • Gardai suspect he had planned to kill himself on the day of the murders, but chickened out .
  • Syed tried to avoid detection by dressing as a woman on day of the murders.
  • He had arranged the bodies in a way to make it look like a murder/suicide.
  • Officers were able to pin him to the murder scene as his burner phone connected to the wifi in Seema’s house.

Killer Syed was discovered unresponsive in the Midlands Prison after 3pm on Thursday, just six days before he was due to stand trial.

Syed had been on remand in prison after being charged with the murder of his wife Seema, 37, and their two children.

All three had been strangled at their home in Llewellyn Court, Ballinteer, south Dublin, in October 2020.

28/10/20 - The scene were bodies of a woman and two children have been discovered in a house in Dublin. Gardaí were called to a house in the Llewellyn estate in Rathfarnham just before midday after neighbours became concerned. (Mick O'Neill.)

Following the discovery of their bodies, Syed had denied all involvement in their deaths and claimed he was an innocent man.

However, he was ultimately arrested and charged following a lengthy investigation.

Syed, who worked as a software developer, had been careful not to bring his mobile phone with him on the day of the murders, leaving it in an apartment where he had living in Rathmines.

However, the monster made a rookie mistake by bringing along a burner phone which gardai were able to use to pin him to the murder scene.

A source said: “He had previously used this burner phone at Seema’s house to connect up to the wifi.

“So when he returned with that phone on the day of the murders, it automatically connected up to the wifi in the house.

“This proved to be a crucial piece of evidence which gardai had obtained to show that he was in the house at the time of the murders.”

Seema Banu with 11 year old Asfira Syed and six year old Faizan Syed (RTE)

This paper can also reveal how gardai believe Syed made regular visits to Seema’s house dressed as a woman as he did not want anyone to know he was calling to the family home in the Llewelyn estate.

“He was caught on CCTV close to the house repeatedly dressed as a woman,” a source said.

“The suspicion is that he did the same on the night of the murder.”

Sources have also revealed that investigators suspected the murderer planned to take his own life but couldn’t follow through.

“His plan was to take his own life after the murders, but he essentially chickened out at the last minute,” a source told us.

Meanwhile, the conniving killer had also desperately tried to pin the whole horrific crime on his wife, who he had murdered.

A source said: “He had arranged the bodies in a way that made it look like it was possible that Seema had killed her two children herself, and then took her own life.

“On top of that he wrote a note in Seema’s laptop, making it out that she had written it.

“That’s how meticulous he had planned all this.

“However gardai had managed to unravel all his lies and this would have shown up in the court case.

“He knew he had nowhere left to hide, which is why he has taken his own life, but now he will not see justice for what he did to his wife and children.”

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