I’m NOT a White Mischief murderess: British estate agent accused of poisoning her tycoon father in Kenya over his alleged cheating insists 'malicious' claims are a slur made by her embittered brother

Helen Veevers, 28, is accused of poisoning her tycoon father in Kenya over his alleged dishonest

On Tuesday, Helen Veevers will depart her residence in Rochdale to journey to Kenya, a rustic that when held nothing however completely satisfied recollections of her time there as a baby. But now the thought brings solely dread.

The explanation for her go to is an inquest into the loss of life of her father, property tycoon Harry Veevers, at his residence in Mombasa in February 2013. He had retired there to get pleasure from an idyllic life within the upmarket residential space of Nyali, taking day by day journeys to the white sand seashore reverse an opulent residence.

Helen, 28, has no concept when she is going to return to Britain. Certainly, relying on the inquest's consequence, there's a terrifying chance she could also be thrown in a Kenyan jail as a result of, alongside along with her mom Azra Parvin Din, 68, and sister Alexandra, 26, she faces a fairly extraordinary declare: that she poisoned her father with a pesticide known as cyhalothrin.

Their accusers are her half-brothers, Harry's sons from his first marriage, Philip and Richard, who've additionally alleged that corrupt native police colluded to cowl up the loss of life.

They're sensational allegations which to her large misery have been reported around the world; a narrative of feuding and homicide amongst rich Kenyan expats has drawn inevitable comparisons with the White Mischief case of 1941, dramatised in a novel and Hollywood film.

But if the Earl of Erroll's homicide was all-too-real, the claims dealing with Helen Veevers are not more than a grotesque fabrication, she says: 'They're totally ridiculous, simply horrible, malicious and unfaithful.'

Certainly, her description is supported by a scientific report she commissioned from Dr Alexander Allan, a forensic toxicologist, that states not one of the poison in query was detectable within the pattern he analysed.

For 3 years, Helen has remained silent, as she labored along with her sister and mom to compile the proof wanted to refute her brothers' allegations. Now, with the inquest approaching, she says she has no selection however to threat travelling to Kenya in order that the scientific proof may be offered – and her father be lastly laid to relaxation with dignity.

Her father Harry Veevers (pictured with spouse Azra) died at his residence in Mombasa in 2013. It has been claimed that Helen, alongside along with her mom and sister, murdered her father after he threatened to go away Azra for an additional lady

The allegations are huge ranging and sophisticated. They embrace the declare that she helped homicide her father after he threatened to go away Azra for an additional lady – though she says the supposed 'affair' is one other twisted fabrication.

Most damaging is a Kenyan toxicology report purporting to seek out pesticide in Harry's physique. On the premise of this – which Helen says is badly flawed – a police chief has really helpful prosecution.

Harry died intestate, leaving the household in uncertainty. 'All my mom, Alexandra and I need is for my father to relaxation in peace. Some sense of closure. For us it's not about cash,' Helen says.

'My brothers discredited us to the purpose that the Kenyan authorities had been persuaded to dig up our dad. It's an emotional assault on us. I really feel violated.

'And I really feel let down by the justice system there as a result of it has allowed them to inform the world that there's a case towards us, when there isn't. They'd by no means have been in a position to do it right here in Britain.

'We're terrified about going to Kenya, as a result of up to now my brothers have gotten away with these smears. However we've got to go to current our proof,' she says.

Her fears are effectively based. An earlier inquest in September 2015, was deserted earlier than Helen's lawyer may current any proof as a result of Helen had obtained intimidating textual content messages from a person who turned out to be the courtroom clerk. The decide in that inquest has since been struck off for improper conduct in different trials.

She is backed by her MP Simon Danczuk, who stated final evening: 'I'm very supportive of Helen. I've made representations with the Overseas and Commonwealth Workplace to safe that the Kenyan authorities are totally conscious that Britain is observing.

Her half-brothers Philip and Richard (pictured) have made the accusations. They've additionally alleged that corrupt native police colluded to cowl up the loss of life

'I'm involved for Helen's security. The British Authorities is watching this case intimately.

'There's an issue with corruption. That's the reality of it.'

Helen believes the harmful dispute has its roots in childhood jealousy. Her father married his first spouse very younger, and divorced her in 1980 after having three youngsters, Alison, Richard and Philip.

He later met Azra, a lady of Indian heritage who was born in Uganda earlier than shifting to Britain and settling in Rochdale.

They married in an Islamic ceremony due to Azra's Muslim religion, and raised their two daughters, Helen and Alexandra, as liberal Muslims. Harry later transformed. 'We had been his princesses,' says Helen, smiling. 'We had been privileged, however we weren't spoilt – we had been inspired to work exhausting and taught we may obtain no matter we set our minds to. He needed us to be good human beings.

'My dad at all times tried to be a very good father to his different three youngsters, however we weren't shut rising up.

'Now, I feel my brothers really feel they missed out on what my sister and I had, which was an in depth household unit with a father who doted on us.'

The Veevers made many journeys to Kenya throughout Helen's childhood, visiting Azra's family, taking journeys to the attractive seashores. As her dad and mom grew older, they started to spend growing intervals of time there.

 I haven't been in a position to grieve correctly due to what my brothers have put us by means of. I'm devastated that due to them, my dad's physique was dug up and has been mendacity in a mortuary for nearly two years

Ultimately, her dad and mom moved to Mombasa. They constructed three homes subsequent door to 1 one other, residing in a single whereas the others remained empty as an funding. Helen stayed in Britain, coaching as an property agent and dealing in Leeds.

Because the years handed, her father's well being declined. 'He had hypertension, angina, fibromyalgia and Meniere's illness, an internal ear drawback,' she continues. 'It meant that each morning he'd sit at breakfast with slightly pouch filled with capsules to take,' she says. 'He was usually ailing and I used to be apprehensive about him – however he was an actual soldier and fought by means of it.'

On February 14, 2013, Harry complained of chest pains, however regardless of the arrival of a health care provider he handed away, the reason for loss of life judged to be a stroke or coronary heart assault. He had not made a will.

'I knew he'd been ailing, however it was nonetheless a horrible shock,' says Helen. 'I beloved him a lot and we had been very shut. I felt like my world had collapsed.

Richard, Philip, Alexandra and Helen flew to Kenya collectively from Gatwick – though it has subsequently been claimed, wrongly, that they had been in Kenya on the time of the loss of life. It was on touchdown there that the primary indicators of division emerged .

The brothers stated their father was buried with out their information; Helen and her sister say the brothers took half within the funeral.

The brothers claimed there have been unusual marks on the physique and that they've been suggested they indicated poisoning; Helen says they've did not current any proof in any respect that this was the case. She accuses Richard of seizing management of the household properties and Harry's automobile with out settlement, and renting out the home the place Azra and Harry had lived with out consent.

'If my brothers had actual suspicions, why did they even bury him?' she asks. 'Why did they not report a homicide? Richard appointed himself head of the household with out session and determined that he was the one who ought to take over and run our father's property.'

Helen and Alexandra returned to Britain to work, however Richard, who had been a martial arts teacher, determined to remain in Kenya and was informed by the courtroom he may keep in one of many household's empty homes – however explicitly not within the household residence.

'After every week, Alex and I needed to go residence,' continues Helen. 'My mum adopted us shortly after. The next week, Richard went to the home she shared with Dad. He eliminated all our private belongings and moved in Spanish tenants towards the orders of the courtroom.

'Once I known as him, he stated he wanted the cash to pay for a lawyer to kind out the probate. I informed him that I may pay for that, however he wouldn't hear. He replied "I'm the eldest son. It's best to take heed to me." ' He additionally informed us that Kenya isn't secure that he was defending us. It was a transparent try to scare us off.'

Helen returned to Kenya and obtained a courtroom order instructing Richard to return their belongings and her father's automobile. It additionally said the cash from renting the properties should go to the courtroom till a settlement was reached. When he didn't comply, she started contempt proceedings. 'We've misplaced a lot cash and possession that are priceless in emotional worth, together with my dad's belongings,' she says.

The confrontations culminated in an altercation on the home involving a machete. Alex was injured and a restraining order taken out towards Richard. The Mail on Sunday has seen photographic proof of a wound and has seen the order towards him. Richard denies any assault occurred.

By January 2014, Richard and Philip's claims persuaded the authorities to exhume their father.

Samples from his physique had been examined by each the police and the Kenyan authorities, each purportedly discovering traces of a carbonate pesticide suspected to be cyhalothrin.

Nonetheless, each reviews had been produced by the identical scientist, Stephen Joel Matinde Weibe – who had been employed by Richard.

Helen finds this worrying. Furthermore she says that the report accommodates primary errors – specifically that cyhalothrin isn't a carbonate.

As for her brothers' declare that Harry was planning to go away their mom for an additional lady, Helen says that is one other falsehood,

Final evening a Mombasa-based lawyer representing Richard and Philip Veevers stated: 'For the report, the accusations towards my shoppers are denied. I'd be most hesitant to accuse the Kenya courts of corruption.' Neither Richard nor Philip would remark.

As for Helen, she says: 'My dad introduced me as much as be sturdy and combat for what I consider in, so I want to do that for him in addition to for us.

'I haven't been in a position to grieve correctly due to what my brothers have put us by means of.

I'm devastated that due to them, my dad's physique was dug up and has been mendacity in a mortuary for nearly two years, so I can't even go to his grave.

'Studying so many lies about me and my household has been devastating. That is categorically not a homicide investigation. It's an inquest.'

'All I can hope is that this time we get to place ahead the scientific proof proving my father was not murdered.

'I'm effectively conscious that if the decide guidelines that it was an illegal killing, the results for us could possibly be severe.

Dr Allan is completely satisfied to supply proof through a satellite tv for pc hyperlink, however I'm apprehensive that might be past the Kenyan courtroom the place funds are restricted.

'We wish our dad's physique to be reburied with dignity and to have some closure.

'My dad could be devastated if he may see what is going on to us.'

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