A WOMAN whose stays have been present in a wooden in Scotland was murdered, her household consider.
Londoner Saima Ahmed’s family members have rejected recommendations she may need dedicated suicide.
They are saying the 36-yr-previous was completely happy and had every part to look ahead to earlier than she vanished final August – 5 months earlier than her physique was discovered.
The grim discovery was made in woodland on a golf course on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
However divorcee Saima had no hyperlinks to the world, which is four hundred miles from her residence in Wembley.
Her brother and sister, Sadat and Saiqa, spoke publicly for the primary time yesterday concerning the tragedy to attraction for assist to unravel the thriller.
They launched the final household image of Saima, showing joyful together with her younger nieces and nephews shortly earlier than she disappeared.
Sadat and Saiqa revealed that they consider “pleasant, outgoing” Saima travelled to Scotland to satisfy a person, with deadly penalties.
She had been shopping for new garments and going to the health club within the months earlier than her disappearance, main them to consider she was looking for a brand new love.
Saiqa, 37, a housewife from London, stated: “Saima was going to the health club, had a physician’s appointment, had picked up her work rota, was saving to purchase a home.
“Why get up abruptly, take off and say I’m going to kill myself?
“And why Scotland? We couldn’t think about that’s the place she’d be discovered.”
Sadat, 33, an IT advisor, lived with Saima within the household residence in Wembley with mother and father Tahira, fifty seven, and Sadat, sixty five.
He stated: “She’s probably met the fallacious individual or had an association to satisfy somebody that’s gone improper.
“That’s why we’re interesting for anybody who noticed Saima. They could have seen her with somebody.
“We’ve completely no concept why she’d journey to Scotland.”
Saima’s household did discover modifications in her behaviour earlier than she went lacking.
Saiqa stated: “She was sporting clothes extra, doing her hair, and never overlaying her head.
“Her GP had stated her vitamin D was low so she stopped sporting the hijab. She additionally began sporting nail polish.
“Me and Mum thought perhaps she’d discovered somebody. Mum requested her and she or he stated no. We thought perhaps she needed to satisfy somebody.”
Saima, who studied sociology at college, and labored within the library at Brent Civic Centre, close to her house, had a “small, shut group of buddies” and didn’t use social media. Police had examined her laptop computer and located nothing to recommend Saima met somebody on-line.
Saima was final seen by her household on August 30 and police consider she took quite a few trains to succeed in Edinburgh.
Her stays lay undiscovered till January 9, when a cranium was discovered within the grounds of Gogar Mount Home to the west of Edinburgh. Police discovered extra stays on the adjoining golf course.
When Saima left the home on the morning she disappeared, the household thought she was strolling to work. However after withdrawing money at an ATM, she went as an alternative to Wembley Central station.
She obtained a practice to Watford Junction and seemed to be alone. It’s believed she then travelled to Edinburgh by way of Northampton, Hemel Hempstead and Birmingham.
Sadat stated considerations began when she did not return that night. He added: “She by no means stayed out all the night time. If she went out with buddies after work she’d all the time name mum and pop.”
Within the following weeks, the household did every little thing to seek out her, visiting outlets to verify for CCTV and placing up posters.
Sadat stated: “In our thoughts she was on the market so we did the whole lot to seek out her. You’re all the time hoping for one of the best. It was an incredible shock when police got here to inform us the information.”
Saima’s physique has not been launched whereas the investigation continues.
“It’s been troublesome not with the ability to bury her,” stated Sadat. “Till we all know what occurred, we will’t go on with our lives.
“Any person should keep in mind one thing. It appears unattainable to go on such an extended journey and nobody remembers her.
“Saima was the kind of one that would ask for assist if she didn’t know the place she was going.”
Saima was 5ft 5in, of medium construct, with shoulder-size darkish hair. She was sporting a darkish, lengthy V-neck prime, black trousers, black footwear and black jacket.