Relatives graveside fears for Seema & her kids

NEPHEWS TRAVEL FROM INDIA TO VISIT FINAL RESTING PLACE

- JOHN HAND

• Family back at home weep during cemetery video call
• Gardai assisted pair to fly 8,000km for today's inquest

Relatives of murder victims Seema Banu and her two doting children wept as her two nephews video-called them from the trio’s graves in Dublin yesterday.

And in an exclusive interview with the Irish Mirror, Seema’s nephew Kashief Ahmed told how “nothing will ever replace” their “gems”.

Seema, 37, her daughter Asfira Riza, 11, and six-year-old son Faizan Syed, were reportedly strangled by Seema's husband Sameer Syed.

He had been charged with their murders but took his own life in the Midlands Prison last year before he stood trial.

Ahead of their inquests today, Kashief also explained that while they do not want to listen to the gruesome details of their deaths they feel it may give them some closure.

DRIVEN

Kashief along with another nephew of Seema, Suhan Syed, were driven to Newcastle Cemetery, Co Dublin, by gardai.

The pair were assisted by the force to travel the 8,000km trip to Ireland from the Mysore district in Karnataka state, in the southwest of India.

They both said prayers before they solemnly planted flowers on the graves.

Then they video-called weeping family members back in India.

Kashief and Suhan are the first relatives of Seema and the two children to visit the graves nearly two-and-a-half years on from their harrowing deaths.