FINGERPRINT EXPERT

Six of the unidentified fingerprints were found at the crime scene (specifically on Neelma Singh`s bedhead and Kunal Singh`s room)and police did not send the fingerprints to be searched in a worldwide database. The fingerprint expert was told by police that it would be too expensive to do so, so they only sent one fingerprint to Fiji to be checked. The fingerprint expert also admitted that by 7.30am on Wednesday 23rd of April 2003 (morning after bodies of Singh children were discovered) two officers had told him that they had already made up their minds and that Max Sica was their prime suspect.
Is this how the justice system works? In a case of this magnitude they look at cutting costs and they dont investigate all the avenues given to them? How much did they spend on getting footprint expert Robert Kennedy from Canada out here?
Is this a true case of tunnel vision from the start? To me it looks like Max Sica is being railroaded. I ask again, WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/sica-committal-trial-on-hold-until-next-year-20090919-fvn2.html


SINGH PRIVATE LIVES EXPOSED http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,27574,26092965-3102,00.html
Shirley Singh said on the stand that she was the one who willingly gave information about her past.(sordid sex life, violence in the family, death threats from a number of people etc etc) HOWEVER, she did not do this until about a couple of months after the murders. Numerous amounts of information had already been recieved in relation to all the family affairs by both relatives, people from the public, (including clients of Mrs Singh to whom she had offered sexual favours)annonymous callers, friends of the Singh children etc. People from the public also informed the police about the eldest daughter Sonia Pathik who also led a sordid sex life. The majority of the people who informed police, gave their names, and statements were obtained from them.(hence the 600 or so witnesses) A recording of all the phone messages was seized by the police and thats how they found out about the death threats to Mr Singh and his family. They also seized tape and video recordings (which also contained the sex videos made by Vijay Singh with his wife Shirley and other people male and female and couples) from the Singh family immediately after the discovery of the murders. Max Sica was also aware of the family affairs and logically this was known to the Singh`s. So really Mrs Singh did not tell police anything out of her own accord, the police were already well aware of the family`s dealings. Max Sica`s first police interview was on the same day he discovered the bodies, police already knew some information about the family`s dealings from him then. Shortly after they knew from other people including relatives and authorities. Naturally after police knowing all this, she had to tell them. She herself knew of the many people (including Max Sica) who knew bits and pieces of the family`s affairs.

It has been said by Mrs Singh that max had attacked Neelma and tried to choke her on her bed, not because she saw this, but she alleged Neelma had told her this. The only person who has truly caused bodily harm to Neelma has been her own father (especially on one occassion when he faced a court of law over hitting her with closed fists and broke a cue stick on her) and for what? For talking to a boy on the phone.
The Singh`s have said a lot about what Neelma Singh said and felt towards Max Sica, Neelma Singh is unfortunately, not here to say otherwise.

What would have happened if the public had heard of Mr Singh`s violence towards his wife and kids, about his numerous marital affairs, about him forcing his wife to have sex with other men and women, about allegations of sexual abuse, about death threats he had been recieving because of his own actions etc etc etc. Now imagine if he was the main suspect, would learning this information make him automatically guilty of murdering his children? Asking whats my point? My point is that just because Mr Singh might have made some bad choices or decisions (in other peoples aspects), still does not make him a murderer. Yes..........Max Sica has got a criminal record, he is not a murderer.

MAN SEEN JUMPING FENCE

Ms Foster (woman who had heard blood curdling screams coming from Singh house area at around 8.30pm on Easter Monday night 2003) had gone for her usual walk with then neighbour Olive at around 5.30am on Tuesday the 22nd of April 2003 (day Singh children bodies found) and had seen a man approaching them, all of a sudden this man ran the other way towards the Singh house and jumped a neighbours fence. Ms Foster had given an indenticate photo of this man who she says was between 40 to 50 years old, thin build and baldish. This was given to police days after murders occurred.

I ask only this, why was the indenticate photo of this man not ever published in any newspaper or put on any t.v. news program? Was this not a very crutial lead? Who was this man? Why was he around the Singh house area that early in the morning and particularly on that day? Why did this man run and jump a fence when he spotted the two women coming towards him? Why did this man not come forward and say who he was if he had nothing to be afraid of? It really is unbelievable that practically nothing was done about it.

Mr Paul Sarri who has stated seeing Sidhi Singh on Easter Monday morning, also said that when he gave his statement to police, they kept on telling him that he must be mistaken, that it must have been on another day. Mr Sarri was adamant he had seen her then.

Another man had initally stated he had seen Neelma Singh arrive at her house in her silver car on the Easter Monday morning, he had noticed this because he said that her car was the same as his friends car, only that his friends car was red. He said he had been working at the area for about seven days. He had given his statement to police the following day after the bodies were discovered (Wednesday 23rd April 2003) A week later he said he had made an error and changed his statement, he said it was not the Easter Monday but the week prior. When he gave his evidence in court, he was visibly shaking and seemed somewhat disoriented. About five to ten minutes into questioning, defence barrister Di Carlo and Magistrate Brian Hine asked if he needed a break, he said he did. To me this mans behaviour seemed somewhat strange, but then again it might have been only my impression.

Too many unanswered questions and a lot of things popping up that were not mentioned from the start. Why? Makes one think and wonder.

Max Sica lawyer bid to delay hearing until 2010
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26087755-3102,00.html
As far as i know, it was the prosecution who had initially asked for and adjournment because the court space was needed. But at this point and looking at how this committal is progressing, an adjournment is unavoidable because of witheld material. Police are still after six years giving new crucial material to defence. Truly inappropriate when in the pursuit of JUSTICE, not only for the Singh`s, but also for Max Sica himself. You would think that after a period of over six years, the police would have had ample time to have ALL material for the defence, unbelievably not even the head of the investigation then (Brian Paton who retired 2-3 years after murders occurred) has yet to give his statement. The defence is expected to instead recieve crucial documentation on the spot and deal with it then and there.

Max Sica is the one who is recieving further injustice from all of this because he is the one still being kept in confinement.

COMMENT MADE (put as a post truly informational)

4 me 2 know n u 2 find out said...
i was at the court today again for another case and while there, decided to go and sit in for a while at the sica hearing. there were a couple of neighbours (who lived behind the singhs house) who volunteered some information to the police on 23/04/03. jeffery spencer bliss and his partner, kim foster were entertaining guests on the rear deck of their house from where they had a direct view of the singh house and around 8.30pm heard what appeared to be a "blood curdling" female scream (as described by kim foster) followed by three loud cracks which they all described as being similar to gunshots, but not actually "gunshots." they all commented on it and expected to hear the sounds of a police and/or ambulance siren. as they looked towards the singhs house, they noticed that the lights were on. they described it as coming from the direction of the singh house.early the next morning, ms foster went for her usual walk with her then next door neighbour olive around 5.30am and saw a male who appeared to be approaching them, but then ran up the hill towards the singh residence and jumped over the neighbours fence.ms foster was able to provide an identicate photo of the man, who she described as being in his 40's to 50's. she described him as baldish and of a thin built. its amazing as so far there has seemed to be a number of people who have heard screams and seen the light on at the singh residence on the monday night, yet the police keep insisting and has led the public to believe that the murders occurred on the sunday night(11pm)and the early hours on monday morning(9am), however majority of the evidence has pointed to the monday night. i wonder why they are doing this, maybe perhaps sunday suits them better. something very fishy is going on, and if anyone that has followed this case closely will smell a rat a mile away. what people from the public have to remember is that "he said" "she said" is all hearsay in a court of law, especially in a case where the victims are deceased. the actual evidence is what counts, especially if it comes from people who neither knew the singh or the sica family.i also came to learn today that the primary detective who was in charge of the entire investigation and overlooked it (mr byron paton who retired from the police force about 2 to 3 years later) still hasnt provided a statement yet. apparently all detective zitny(the person who took over as head) had to say was that they are in the process of obtaining it. i mean come on seriously, use ur commonsense, that is one of the first things the police should have done and not five weeks into the commital which is set to finish this week, but the way things have gone, seems like more time will have to be assigned to mr sica's commital hearing which may get adjourned to continue later because of the police not providing all the material to the defense, and only providing what seems fit to them to implicate mr sica for the murders. i also found out that the dpp was unable to answer a simple question as to if any type of scientific examination took place in regards to the tyre tread patterns found in the area and if not, why not. mr zitny also said on the stand that an identicate photo had never been prepared, yet today one seems to have been provided to the defence barrister. for the sake of the singhs and sicas, i hope and pray that gods justice takes place and not that of men, as we all know that men are just vessels.


ARTICLE IN COURIER MAIL 15TH SEPTEMBER "MAX SICA NOT GETTING JUSTICE"
HERE IS LINK http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,26072074-3102,00.htmlHonestly over 6 years and still when is the injustice going to end?

Car 'like Max Sica's' near Singh house (courier mail)

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26049965-3102,00.html
What the courier mail failed to further report is that tyre impressions were left where the so called blue like sedan was parked and did not match and no further investigations were made on the tracks. The car Mr Sica drove was considered black and not blue. Also there was a call made between Max and Neelma at around 11.10 pm from Max`s mobile to Neelma`s mobile.

ARTICLE FROM BRISBANE TIMES 2nd SEPTEMBER 2009
Detective Zitny said after the text was sent(at 8.56pm)on the night of Easter Sunday, there was a call from the Sica home phone to the Singh's home phone - a call which lasted for two minutes and 35 seconds.
Neelma then rang Sica's mobile phone for one second, which is followed by another 34-second call from Sica's to her mobile phone at 11.10pm.
It is estimated the siblings were killed some time late on Sunday or Easter Monday.

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT CAR IN PEPPER STREET::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
In 2003, there were only 2 houses on pepper st. the "small's" indicated they had seen a dark blue 4 door sedan parked at the end of the street, during cross examination by mr Di Carlo, Miss Small and her boyfriend said that they had seen the car twice that night, once around 8 pm when they went over to have dinner with Mr and Mrs Small, and again at around 10.30 pm as the boyfriend was leaving. Mrs Tiyor (the daughter in law of the neighbours across the road) under cross examination stated that she had gone over to her inlaws house to spend the easter weekend there, whilst there on one of the nights, her brother in law had parked the car for her on Pepper Street. Apart from this, tread patterns were found in the area that the Smalls had described where the car had been parked, yet the lead detective Joe Zitny, was unable to answer any questions in relation to the enquiries made in respect of the tread patterns found in the area and the examination of the tyres on all the Sica vehicles (which they had taken in the same week of the murders and then took the cars again one year later). He was asked to provide all the documents in relation to this enquiry about 2 weeks ago and failed to do so, and all he had to say was that he would look into the matter. Even when Mr Di Carlo asked a simple question about whether the tyres of all the Sica vehicles had been examined, he was unable to provide a simple yes or no.

ALSO::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Neighbour heard screams from Singh home
Friday, 11 September 2009
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A neighbour was awoken by chilling screams on the night three siblings were murdered in their Brisbane suburban home, a court has heard.
Alicia Frances was giving evidence in the committal hearing of Max Sica, 39, in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday.
Sica is accused of the murders of Neelma, 24, Kunal, 18, and Sidhi Singh, 12, who were found dead in the spa of the home in the outer Brisbane suburb of Bridgeman Downs in April 2003.
Ms Frances, who lives 150 metres from the Singh home, told the court that she heard what sounded like the screams of a woman for "three to four minutes" and woke her husband.
"It frightened me so I said to my husband 'Get out of bed, something has frightened me - I want you to get up and see what it is'," she said.
"It chilled me to the bone actually.
"I think it was an adult female."
She said she did not know the origin of the screams only the general direction of them.
The next day she phoned the police after hearing a call for public information in the media.
She contacted police again a few days later with more information after realising she had seen two males riding bikes in the area at dawn the day before the alleged murders occurred.
Police at the time showed her a photo board with 12 images of men and she identified the image of Sica, who was Neelma's former boyfriend, as being "similar" to one of the men on bikes.
"I can't say it's that person," she said in a police interview video shown to the court. "It's similar to that person."
The hearing continues next week.

Screams Mrs Frances heard were on the Monday night early into the following Tuesday morning around midnight to half past midnight.
Even though the screams were bone chlling and Mrs Frances awoke her husband, no one actually called the police or went to see what was going on.


Sica 'sobbing and red-eyed' in gutterAMELIA BENTLEY
September 4, 2009
Accused killer Max Sica was sobbing and distraught as he sat in the gutter outside the home where he had just discovered the bodies of the Singh siblings, a police officer who interviewed him at the scene has recalled.
Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday heard evidence from Sergeant Daniel Bonwick who was one of several police officers who arrived at the Singh's Bridgeman Downs house on April 22, 2003 after Sica called Triple-O to report there were "three dead bodies in a bathtub".
The bodies were later determined to be Neelma, 24, Kunal, 18 and 12-year-old Sidhi Singh who were all killed in different ways in the house while their parents were away in Fiji on business.
Last year, 39-year-old Sica, a former neighbour of the Singhs and ex-boyfriend of Neelma's, was charged with the killings.
On day 15 of a committal hearing Sergeant Bonwick said that as he arrived at the Grass Tree Close home he saw a man he later discovered was Sica in the cul-de-sac.
After Sica confirmed he was the person who called police, Sergeant Bonwick said he sat down in the gutter with him to ask him questions.
"He was sobbing, he had red eyes, (he was) very upset," he said.
Reading from the officer's notes, defence barrister Sam Di Carlo pointed out where Sergeant Bonwick claims to have heard Sica say he saw the body of Neelma's sister Archana in the spa must have been a mistake.
"You say he says; 'When I was pulling out the blanket (left over the bodies in the spa) Neelma's hand touched my hand, it was cold and wrinkly. I could also see Neelma's brother Kunal and Neelma's sister Archana'," Mr Di Carlo read.
Archana Pathik, however, was not in the spa that day but was at work when Sica, in the presence of Sergeant Bonwick outside the house, phoned her to tell her the tragic news, the court was told.
Sergeant Bonwick said Sica had asked him to call her but he said he would not.
"I didn't want to have to talk to someone and tell them their family may be dead," he said.
However Sica phoned Mrs Pathik and then handed the phone to the officer, he said.
Asked by Mr Di Carlo if he thought Sica had been faking his emotions, Sergeant Bonwick replied that he did not believe so.
"Why would I? Whatever he saw inside (the house) .. he was upset," he said.

DET ZITNY STATED THAT HE THOUGHT MAX SICA SEEMED COOL AND CALM. THREE DAYS LATER WHEN MAX SICA WAS TAKEN THROUGH SINGH HOUSE, DET ZITNY STATED HE THOUGHT MAX SICA FAKED HIS FEELINGS OF GRIEF. VIDEO FOOTAGE OF MAX SICA IN SINGH HOME WALKTHROUGH WAS SHOWN IN COURT, HE WAS TRULY TRAUMATISED AND DEVASTATED.

MEDIA AND HOW I`VE LEARNT IT OPERATES

The media reaches millions of people each day. The media has a right to report the news and other happenings that occur across the country. What i dont understand about the media is how they can print something which they themselves know is untrue or they just print a sentence of something and dont bother printing the rest as so to twist the truth. Why does the media only print sensational headlines and then they do not bother to print the facts? The facts they hear in court, the ones like i have stated in this blog. Max has been hounded by media since the day he discovered the bodies. They even had him in the media for a traffic violation when the car he was driving had expired rego and insurance. The car belonged to a family member who had overlooked it and Max did not know this when he took the car out. Mind you they had printed the man who is accused of murdering the Singh siblings was today caught driving without rego or insurance and bla bla bla Any time they would print anything on him, that is how they would start their reporting. The media at the beginning had said that Max was infatuated and obsessed with Neelma, they did not say that he was her boyfriend, they made it look like he was her stalker. When Max went to the funeral the police knew he was going to be there and even had a car following him from his home to the funeral, Max went to the funeral with a female friend who lived next door to him. The media had printed that Max showed up at the funeral with his new girlfriend. These examples are only but a few. Max has been charged with a most horrendous crime and he is fighting for his freedom for practically his life. How can any person try to prove their innocence when the media is constantly feeding the public with untruths, biast and one sided reporting? I am not saying that the media should not print at all, i am saying that they should make sure of the facts before they print something and also print the other side of the story. If a normal citizen would go around saying or printing crap about someone else, they would be charged with defamation. In the end people will always form their own opinion, but the media should not ill inform the public for i am sure most are swayed by what they print.

FOR YOU FRED (and some unknown)

Fred....have you actually ever been to the committal hearing yourself? Are you sure that the opposite is true? I suggest you do go and sit through it and hear with your own ears. The media seems to write what they want and when the facts come out in the committal to the contrary, they seem not to be interested in printing it. The media are the ones i see to be biast and one sided. Fred, i just hope that one day you wont be accussed of something you know you didnt do and have to go through hell. It really isnt that far fetched.
Fred to answer your comment.......If he is not guilty then he has nothing to worry about....Do you think innocent people are put in jail Fred? Do you think that just because someone abides by the law it wont happen to them? Do you think that just because you happen to have a criminal record of something you did long ago, it gives others the right to automatically assume you are guilty of anything that you are accused of? There is no hard evidence Fred, you know why? the answer is simple, he did not do it. I believe in his innocence, i know who Max Sica is, do you know him personally Fred? Have you ever associated with him in any way Fred? This is not a forum Fred, like there are two sides to a coin, there are two sides to a story, and this blog is here to tell that other side. The media is not interested in reporting ALL the facts, so i will do it instead. Do you think that it is wrong of me to do so Fred? To be honest Fred, if you do or you dont, it does not make a difference to me. Like i said, i know who Max Sica is, and i know he is truly innocent.
AND NOW TO THE ANNONYMOUS ONE WHO COMMENTED ON MY GRAMMAR.....
I am not here to win a grammar competition so i really dont care what you think about it. You can have your laugh i suggest you keep on laughing you will need to. You know what i mean.....
I suggest you see further down the track there Fred as you can see was taken out.
TO THE ANNONYMOUS COMMENT MAKER (so called jackass)
You are always more than welcome to return to this blog and read up on further factual info. I suggest if you want to leave a comment, adhere to rules posted under the title of this blog. Like i have already stated, no foul, senseless, personal attack etc will be tollerated. If you want to make your point, try to do it using some sort of intelligence and common sense. If you think that you cannot do this, you can always just read on.

ANSWERS OR MORE QUESTIONS?

The committal continues and more questions arise than answers. Why did police not investigate other areas of interest that were put forward to them? Example: One male was seen by two persons (who were taking a walk at 5 30 am Tuesday morning 22nd of April 2003) jumping a fence and disappearing, two cars were seen at the Singh residence at around 9 am the same morning by a neighbour. On Monday night at around 8 30 pm neighbours heard a loud horrible scream coming from around the area of the Singh`s home. An xtra large shirt was found at the Singh home and did not belong to anyone in the family or Max. Why did it take police 6 days to say they had discovered bleached footprint on the stairs and then wait one year to take Max`s footprints? The mother of the Singh children took a bloodied pillow from the crime scene and if it wasnt for her daughter Archana to say so, no one would have known it was missing. At this point i ask, was it only this item to go missing from the crime scene? Three days after discovering the bodies, Max was taken through the house and Det. Zitny said that he thought Max faked the grief he was feeling, Was Max already the prime suspect from the very beginning? Is this the reason why police did not further investigate the above mentioned leads? Neelma`s vehicle was fully inspected by forensics and shortly after it was sold by Mrs Singh to one of Neelma`s friends. He had cleaned the car thoroughly at least twice after he had bought it. On one occassion he had given Mrs Singh a lift and two days after had found a watch and other items belonging to Neelma in the car that had previously been reported missing by the Singh family. There are also issues involving drugs been taken and sold which have been heard at the hearing. These things have been stated at the committal but i have yet to read them in any newspaper report. I do not want to sound biast or one sided, but even if i did not know Max or anything at all about this case and as a simple person, i would be questioning this all the same.
I want justice for the Singh children just as much as anyone else or even more so as i know Max did not do this. I knew those three kids, i knew Neelma, Kunal and Sidhi, they are not just three names to me they are three human beings that did not deserve to have their lives end as it did and i truly hope and pray that the real culprit/s be caught so that they(the singh children)can truly have peace and Max can truly have his name cleared and innocence proven once and for all.
AND HOW ABOUT THE SO CALLED FOOTPRINT EVIDENCE...............
It's been six years in the making and the opening days of the committal hearing for the man accused of one of Brisbane's most shocking crimes had all the elements: sex scandals, violence, forbidden love and murder.
But the case of Max Sica has taken a decidedly pedestrian turn today.
A podiatrist has testified she cannot exclude the possibility a footprint left at the scene of the Singh siblings' murders belonged to the man accused of killing them.
Doctor Sara Jones told the Brisbane Magistrates Court she analysed footprint impressions made by Sica, 39, and footprints found at the Bridgeman Downs home where 24 year old Neelma, her 18-year-old brother Kunal, and 12-year-old sister Sidhi Singh, were killed in April 2003.
Sica, of Stafford, is charged with their murders.
The hearing last week heard Sica had been dating Neelma but the relationship ended when her father Vijay Singh forbade the two to see each other.
Dr Jones said it was possible a footprint on carpet at the house belonged to Sica.
She examined Sica's feet and had him make footprint impressions on paper at Petrie Police Station, she said.
"I was unable to find any characteristics that would exclude him (as a match)," she said.
(((((But under cross-examination by Mr Sica's lawyer, Dr Jones accepted hundreds of people's feet could also match the footprint at the scene.)))))
During an explosive two days of evidence last week, Mr Singh admitted beating Neelma with a pool cue, conducting extra-marital affairs and clashing with Sica over the older man's designs on his daughter.
He also accused Sica of trying to push him out of the family by making false accusations of sexual abuse against his youngest daughter, Sidhi Singh, and was quizzed by Sica's lawyers about his own role in his children's deaths.
Mr Singh is due to continue his evidence later today before his wife Shirley takes the stand.
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AS STATED BY DR SARA JONES HERSELF IN AN ARTICLE...
“I was part of a team investigating a murder,” she said. “The person who actually committed the murder carried the body and dumped it in a swamp.
“We could prove the body was carried out, and did not return, because of the distance between the steps and the depth of the footprints going out through the mud varied considerably to those coming back. The evidence helped to convict the person.
“However, all podiatry evidence is circumstantial. The only definitive and absolute evidence is finger print evidence. Even DNA is still considered circumstantial, but when you add the information with other facts, it helps.

note: Both Dr Jones and Canadian Expert Robert Kennedy also stated that they could not even say when the fooprint was actually left at the scene. It could have been left before or even after. Plus like i have stated in this blog, police allege they found the so called footprint 6 days after the bodies were discovered, yet they took Max Sica`s footprints one year later in 2004. They made him wear all kinds of socks, thick, medium, thin and socks that were small for his feet too. They had his footprints since he voluntarily gave them over five years ago.
Also i would like to point out that the age gap between Max and Neelma is 8 yrs not 8decades. I did not see anyone be offended at the age of Mr Singh`s niece or other women he frequented. I only point this out because they always comment on the age difference but really, i do not see the significance.