Saima Ahmed: Golf course death mystery ‘doesn’t make sense’

The brother of a London woman chanced on dreary on an Edinburgh golf course four months after she disappeared has talked about her demise “does no longer damage sense”.

Saima Ahmed, 36, became reported missing from her home in Wembley on 30 August 2015.

However her physique became no longer chanced on until 9 January 2016 on the grounds of Gogarburn golf course.

Nearly five years on from the day she vanished, detectives talked about Ms Ahmed’s demise remains unexplained.

Her brother, Sadat Ahmed, returned to Edinburgh to damage a unique enchantment for info and talked about the passage of time had done cramped to ease the family’s disaster.

Mr Ahmed talked about: “We tranquil take into yarn it. We tranquil talk about it. We do no longer imprint.

“On every occasion we strive to struggle by contrivance of it in our heads, it does no longer damage any sense to us.

“There is so great that does no longer damage sense to us.”

Ms Ahmed is believed to beget taken a put together from London to Edinburgh, by contrivance of Hemel Hempstead and Birmingham, when she became reported missing on Sunday 30 August 2015.

Unconfirmed sightings of of us matching her description on the time were made at Portobello beach, shut to Edinburgh.

Mr Ahmed, 37, talked about: “We as a family tranquil don’t beget any closure, we do no longer know what’s took place, we tranquil don’t beget any solutions and we appropriate wish to damage an enchantment to everybody, anyone who she would possibly maybe maybe well beget talked to.

“She’s very inquisitive, so she became in areas she’s never been to earlier than, she would quiz questions. I remember she would beget spoken to any person.”

He added that it became “so out of personality” for Ms Ahmed, who lived in Wembley, to chase to the Scottish capital on her possess.

Mr Ahmed believes his sister must beget had contact with of us to accept to the situation the place she became chanced on.

He added: “Someone must know something, they beget to beget a judgment of appropriate and flawed. I would take to think they’d reach forward and present us something.

“However as annually goes by, you lose self perception in getting solutions, but we’ll never discontinue, we’ll never quit hope.”

Det Supt Martin MacLean, of Police Scotland, talked about the Portobello means sightings occurred on the evening she became reported missing and by a dog walker on the Monday morning.

Officers wish to convey to anyone who would possibly maybe maybe well beget interacted with Ms Ahmed, from taxi drivers to B&B homeowners.

Det Supt MacLean talked about the investigation into her demise had been “thorough and painstaking” but, in the past, officers damage no longer know what Ms Ahmed did in Edinburgh.

Police are tranquil making an strive to piece together a timeline of her movements but beget confirmed she travelled on my own and became no longer conception to be assembly anyone.

Det Supt MacLean talked about “intensive forensic work” on the physique had no longer offered any proof of criminal activity.

He added: “The passage of time from Saima going missing to when her remains were recovered has been the most though-provoking fret because most of the CCTV alternatives proceed.

“Now we beget exhausted every line of inquiry”

Saima became described as Asian, about 5ft 5in, of medium manufacture, with shoulder-dimension, straight sunless hair. She became final viewed wearing a glum long V-neck top, black trousers, black footwear and a black jacket.

On the first anniversary of her disappearance, it emerged five Metropolitan Police officers were going by contrivance of a misconduct investigation over the case.

The cross followed complaints from the family that Ms Ahmed’s case became treated as “low risk” after she disappeared.