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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Cops seek DPP’s advice as probe into Hannah’s death continues

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Shane Superville
416 days ago
20240318
Police officers at the Mathura family home at Butu Street, Valsayn during their investigations on Wednesday.

Police officers at the Mathura family home at Butu Street, Valsayn during their investigations on Wednesday.

SHIRLEY BAHADUR

Of­fi­cers of the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau spoke with of­fi­cials from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) yes­ter­day morn­ing for guid­ance on dif­fer­ent as­pects of the case in­volv­ing Han­nah Mathu­ra, ac­cord­ing to po­lice sources.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ex­pect­ed to meet with the DPP again to­day.

Han­nah’s re­mains were found buried in the back­yard of her fam­i­ly’s Bu­tu Street, Val­sayn South, home last Tues­day. The 18-year-old was buried in a shal­low grave for the last sev­en years.

The in­ci­dent was re­port­ed by one of her rel­a­tives to po­lice, last Sun­day.

The teen’s par­ents, her 66-year-old fa­ther An­drew Mathu­ra and her 62-year-old moth­er, have since been ar­rest­ed and have been ques­tioned about the cir­cum­stances which led to her death.

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed last week de­ter­mined that Han­nah died from a gun­shot to the head.

Sources con­firmed that of­fi­cers of the Re­gion II Homi­cide Bu­reau spoke with of­fi­cials from the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) yes­ter­day morn­ing for guid­ance on dif­fer­ent as­pects of the case.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ex­pect­ed to meet with the DPP again to­day.

Po­lice sources dis­closed that sev­er­al mat­ters in the case are still be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed but note that the in­ci­dent has the “full at­ten­tion” of de­tec­tives as­signed to the case.

The source added that while it re­mains un­clear what charges if any could be laid against the moth­er, who was ar­rest­ed, it all de­pend­ed on what in­for­ma­tion she would have been aware of at the time of Han­nah’s death.

The po­lice source not­ed that the par­ents could face a charge of im­prop­er­ly dis­pos­ing of a dead body, among oth­er pos­si­ble of­fences.


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