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Detectives investigating the murders of two children and the death of their mother in Dublin have been piecing together their latest movements and known contacts they had in their final days.
Gardaí was trying to establish the identity of all the people seen last week around his home in Ballinteer, where their bodies were found, with images taken from cameras and CCTV systems installed privately on local businesses and roads to be checked. Thoroughly.
The activity of phones, social networks and messaging applications was also being reviewed in an attempt to establish when Seema Banu (37), her daughter Asfira Riza (11) and her son Faizan Syed (6) were last seen alive or contacted by family and friends.
Autopsies on the remains of the two children confirmed that they were killed by strangulation. After the autopsy results of the children’s remains were confirmed last Friday, the case was listed as a murder investigation.
A ligature was also found with Ms Banu’s remains and the autopsy has established that this led to her death. However, exactly how that happened, and specifically if she was killed, has yet to be established.
Conclusive findings
Gardaí is concerned that without a conclusive finding on Ms. Banu’s cause of death, the investigation can become very complex and frustrated.
More pathology tests were planned in an attempt to clarify that crucial aspect of the case, and Gardaí hoped that more work in that area would lead to a breakthrough.
Garda sources said that unless investigators could conclusively determine that Ms Banu was murdered and did not take her own life, the possibility that no one else was involved in the three deaths can never be ruled out.
However, the same sources added that the murder investigation into the death of the children may yield information, including forensic evidence, that “would put more context” on the death of their mother.
“You can put another person on the scene at the time of the three deaths and obviously that would be very significant,” said a source.
The family, who was from India, lived in a house in Llewellyn Court, Ballinteer, where their bodies were found by Gardaí last Wednesday afternoon.
The locals were concerned for Ms Banu and her children, as they had not seen them for several days and the blinds in the house were closed, so they called gardaí to report their concerns.
Water damage
When the Gardaí from Dundrum Garda station arrived at the house and broke into, Ms Banu was found dead in a bedroom of the semi-detached house and her son and daughter were dead in another bedroom. Their bodies had been there for several days and a faucet had been left running on the property, causing significant damage.
Gardaí is expected to interview Ms Banu’s family in India and also speak with people from her social circle in Ireland, where she had been living for several years, in an attempt to learn all about her life in the days leading up to her death.
Garda sources said that building a picture of the lives of the mother and her children during the past year, during which they moved houses and children changed schools, may also be important for research.
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