Daughters of Rochdale property tycoon face murder charge

An inquest into the death of Harry Veevers, from Rochdale, has heard that he was poisoned by his girlfriend and their two daughters.

Mr Veevers, 64, who had lived in Kenya for 25 years, died at his home near Mombasa in 2013.

The inquest into his death heard that Mr Veevers had told his girlfriend Azra Parvin Din and their daughters Helen, 25 and Alexandra, 23, that he was leaving for another woman.

Miss Din, who he had left his wife and two sons for, said he died of natural causes and the official cause of death was recorded as a heart attack and stroke.

Despite this, Richard and Phillip Veevers, Mr Veever's sons from his first marriage, became suspicious when Miss Din buried him as a Muslim three days after his death – despite Mr Veevers never converting to Islam.

Richard and Phillip obtained an order to exhume the body. Tests then went on to show that Mr Veevers had in fact been poisoned with insecticide.

At the inquest held in Mombasa, Phillip Veevers explained that he and his brother had been prevented from entering the mortuary to see their father’s body when they arrived in Kenya. When they were allowed a few moments alone with him before the burial, they state that they found marks.

Richard Veevers told the inquest that his father had complained that Miss Din and her children were slowly poisoning him and that he was in love with another woman in Kenya, whom he wished to marry. He then told the inquest that Alexandra said that she would “kill her father if he left them”.

It has now been recommended that murder charges be brought against Miss Din and her daughters, who are registered at an address in Basingstoke.