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NRI girl killer extradite to UK
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.

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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 teenager’s 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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