Qld: Forensic tests conducted in Singh case

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-2004
Qld: Forensic tests conducted in Singh case

BRISBANE, April 8 AAP - Police were today examining forensic tests conducted overnight
on the boyfriend of one of three siblings murdered in their Brisbane home last Easter.

Neelma Singh, 24, her brother Kunal, 18, and sister Sidhi, 12, were found dead at their
Bridgeman Downs home in Brisbane's north on April 22 last year.

Police believe the siblings, whose parents were overseas at the time of the murders,
were killed in their beds before being dragged into the bathroom and dumped in a spa.

Neelma Singh's boyfriend, 34-year-old computer technician Max Sica, who found the bodies,
was again taken into custody by police last night.

Forensic tests were conducted at Petrie CIB before Mr Sica was released into the care
of his legal representative, about 1.30am (AEST) today.

The tests, which police have declined to detail, will be examined in coming weeks.

Last year, Adelaide University anatomy professor Maciej Henneberg was called on to
study a bloody earprint found on a wall in the Singh's house, in the hope it might identify
the killer.

Police have searched the homes of Mr Sica's parents and his two sisters in the last
week, confiscating several items of interest to the investigation.

They also questioned Mr Sica over the deaths for more than 18 hours last week.

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