Posted on 04/23/2009 10:10:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
Tragedy of girl who leapt to her death after she could not get over her sister's murder
By STEPHEN WRIGHT and LUCY BALLINGER 24th April 2009
The tormented younger sister of a schoolgirl raped and murdered by a serial sex offender has leapt to her death from the top of a car park.
Nishma Raithatha, 15, is said never to have come to terms with the murder of her sister Jeshma nearly four years ago.
Jeshma, a 17-year-old A-level student, was sexually assaulted and knifed in the heart by Viktor Dembovskis on her way home from school in May 2005.
Tragedy: Nishma (left) plunged to her death. She was still grieving the loss of her sister Jeshma who was raped and stabbed
The Latvian national had been allowed into Britain despite having a string of rape convictions in his own country.
Nishma, then 12, took time off school to try to cope with her grief. But she never fully recovered and plunged to her death from a car park at St George's shopping centre in Harrow, North-West London, on April 7.
The tragedy, four days before Nishma's 16th birthday, means her parents have lost two daughters in less than four years.
Jeshma, who planned to take a music degree, died three days short of her 18th birthday.
Killer: Viktor Dembovskis was handed a life sentence
Yesterday, relatives were consoling Nishma's parents Suresh and Manjula, who also have a son, Trishul, at their semi-detached home in South Harrow.
A family friend who answered the door said: 'The only thing we know is that Nishma never got over Jeshma's death. That is all we have to think about now.'
Nishma was a pupil at Claremont High School in Kenton, Harrow, which her sister also attended.
So sad.
Dear girl, I am sure her sister would not have wanted that. To live a great life in her sister’s memory would have been a far better thing. Easy for me to say, though, I was not dealing with her pain.
Oh dear! Replication apologies
RIP.
What’s wrong with western wimp-ass femi-fied ‘justice’?
Why do we think it’s so much more moral not to execute murderers and rapists?
The guy should not have gotten life, he should have been executed quickly. Within a week of the sentencing to death. We need old west justice, not this metrosexual limp-faggoty justice that leaves all the good people dead because they KNOW they have not received justice, and the scumbags alive for the rest of their lives at taxpayer expense.
This is just so wrong. Especially when there is no doubt the murderer did it. Give them a week to get right with their god, and if they are atheist, give them a day as they have no need to get right with anything, and just hang em.
Unfortunately, even that probably would not have done anything for the sister who jumped. She was grieving her sister, not outraged at the murderer’s sentence.
I agree. Part ot the torment of the living survivors of murder, is that the perpetrator is stll alive and deriving some value from life.
There is a "forgiveness " industry that can put pressure on these people to forgive, even without a real sense that justice has been administered.
I pray that this sweet tormented soul can find mercy and peace and that her family can survive.
Part of being able to truly forgive someone in the biblical sense is the security that real justice and real consequences will be administered. Restitution of one or more forms made.
What do you want to bet that Viktor Dembovskis is now out on parole?
I don’t know about y’all but if that was my Daughter that perp would come up missing.
That’s not possible. Life can never be great unless you live the whole thing in a magic bubble. It’s a horrible curse and we should envy the dead.
Yes, it is possible to live a great life. One that would make your sister proud. There is so much good to be done in this world.
Note I did not say a “pain-free” life. I said a great life.
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