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NRI girl killer extradite
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Latvian, July 10, 2005
NRI press
NRI, 17-year-old girl actress and
singer was raped, strangled and dumped in May.
Latvian government said that killer
Viktor Dembovskis, who was arrested last month at
his apartment in the western town of Livani has been
charged and extradited to London by Latvian government.
Viktor Dembovskis, 42, 90 miles south-east
of the Latvian capital Riga was flown to London from
Livani.
Latvian Police
Detain Suspect in Murder
of London NRI, A-level school girl
Latvian, May 30, 2005
Reuters reports
A man wanted in connection with the murder of 17-year-old
London girl, NRI (non-resident Indian) Jeshma Raithatha
has been arrested in Latvia, Reuters reports.
Raithatha was raped and then stabbed
three times through the heart on May 16 but her partially-clothed
body lay undiscovered for eight days before it was
found in dense undergrowth behind a leisure centre.
Latvian police have arrested
a man on behalf of London Metropolitan police in connection
with the murder of Jeshma Raithatha. Inquiries continue,
a police spokesman said.
Detectives said they believed she
was the victim of a random attack and had been looking
for an unidentified man who lived near the teenagers
Greenford home but had gone missing.
The police spokeswoman confirmed the
man held in Latvia was the man they had been seeking.
It is thought that Raithatha was killed
when she was heading home along a footpath through
a wooded area in Sudbury Hill after an afternoon shopping
trip, as police recently released CCTV footage showing
the girl in a west London shop on the day of her death.
NRI,
A-level school girl, 17, found dead
London, May 26, 2005
NRIpress
NRI (non-resident Indian) Jeshma
Raithatha was raped, strangled and her body dumped
on waste ground 500 yards from her home, police said
yesterday. Jeshma Raithatha was last seen leaving
her college at lunchtime on May 16, three days before
her 18th birthday.
It is believe that Jeshma Raithatha
was taking a short cut along an overgrown footpath
when she was ambushed in broad daylight. Her partially
clothed body was found by police yesterday in woodland
at Greenford, west London. The jeans she was wearing
had been removed and left by her body.
She was A-level student described
as a delightful, sensitive, caring and creative
young woman. She wanted to be a professional
singer after attending university and wrote of her
ambitions on several websites. On one messageboard
for musicians she said: "I love music. I am a
singer with a strong voice. I have a lot of experience.
I love the stage, the glamour, lights, auditions and
everything." She says she can perform in English
and Hindi and offers dubbing for TV, films and commercials.
She enjoyed writing her own song and also a keen clarinet
player
Her parents Suresh and Manjula Raithatha
told how their daughter's life "was about to
take off ". Her mother Mrs Raithatha said: "She
was in a happy state when I last saw her and was looking
forward to her life. I dropped her at school for a
revision lesson. She usually leaves a note for me,
saying something like 'I have gone to the gym', but
there was nothing. "At four or five o'clock it
started raining. I called her mobile phone and left
a message. It was getting a bit late. I texted her.
She always replies to a text message. About 6pm, I
started to get worried. I called the police at 10pm.
I got the impression that it was not that unusual
for a 17- or 18-year-old to be gone for few hours.
I was calling all her friends. They were all linked
with each other. Her friends came around at night.
We knew something had happened." One neighbour
said: "Jeshma and her family had only been living
in Greenford for a couple of years.

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