The body of triple killer Sameer Syed will be flown back to India next week, we can reveal.
A spokesperson for the Indian Embassy confirmed Syed, 38, who hung himself in his cell earlier this month while awaiting trial, will be buried in Bangalore. Remorseless killer Syed was accused of the October 2020 murder of his wife Seema Banu and her two daughters Asfira, 11, and Faizan, 6, in Rathmines, South Dublin.
The burial in India comes after the Islamic Foundation of Ireland, who organised the burial of Syed’s tragic family in Newcastle, Co Dublin, said they did not believe the murderer should be buried in the same grave as his victims. It will take place despite the fact that Syed had his wife and children buried in Newcastle cemetery in Co Dublin - against her family’s wishes.
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“The family have been in touch with us and we are working with them to have the body transported back to India next week,” a spokesperson told this paper. The Islamic Foundation of Ireland, who buried the tragic family, told this paper
The burial in India will take place despite the fact that Syed had his wife and children buried in Newcastle cemetery in Co Dublin - against her family’s wishes. It is also understood Syed’s body will be washed and embalmed before prayers are said over him in his native country.
The burial in India will take place despite the fact that Syed had his wife and children buried in Newcastle cemetery in Ireland - against her family’s wishes. Authorities in the Islamic Foundation of Ireland, who buried the tragic family, told this paper last week that if the job fell to them to bury Syed, that he would be buried separately to them.
However in the interim family members of the killer contacted the Indian Embassy - and now his body will be returned to India instead. The delay in transporting the body came because of a lengthy post-mortem examination process and a garda investigation into Syed’s death.
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