Po­lice are ex­pect­ed to re­ceive in­struc­tions from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on the way for­ward re­gard­ing their probe in­to the death of Val­sayn teen Han­nah Mathu­ra.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­cent­ly re­ceived a re­port from the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, which was the fi­nal hur­dle in the mat­ter.

Of­fi­cers are ex­pect­ed to re­ceive in­struc­tions by Fri­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors first ap­proached the DPP with a file on the case on March 19, but af­ter re­view­ing the mat­ter for a cou­ple of hours, of­fi­cers were in­struct­ed that more ev­i­dence was re­quired to form a pri­ma fa­cie case.

Han­nah’s re­mains were found in the back­yard of her Bu­tu Road, Val­sayn home on March 12. An au­top­sy re­vealed she was shot in the head. Han­nah’s re­mains were found by po­lice of­fi­cers af­ter a male rel­a­tive in­formed them that she had been buried in the back­yard of the fam­i­ly’s prop­er­ty about sev­en years ago. At the time she was last seen, Han­nah was 18.

Her par­ents were ar­rest­ed but re­leased days af­ter her skele­tal re­mains were found.

In April, DNA tests of­fi­cial­ly con­firmed the re­mains un­earthed in Val­sayn were in­deed the teenag­er.

Of­fi­cers said Han­nah’s re­mains will al­so be re­turned to the fam­i­ly for a fi­nal send-off at the end of their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In June, Han­nah’s sib­lings, through their at­tor­neys San­jiv Bood­hu and Sasha Singh, said they were pained that they could not give their sis­ter a fu­ner­al ser­vice.

In a state­ment, the sib­lings said they were “re­cov­er­ing from emo­tion­al trau­ma and are fi­nal­ly able to be­gin ris­ing out of a ter­ri­bly un­for­tu­nate sit­u­a­tion, which had the ef­fect of con­strict­ing them and iso­lat­ing them from the norms of every­day life.”

The sib­lings said they bore sig­nif­i­cant pain and ex­pe­ri­enced a dark­ness that had weighed heav­i­ly on them for sev­er­al years.