Hundreds say goodbye to girls ‘murdered at home by father’
Trisha Lad, 19, and her sister Nisha, 16, were cremated today along with their mother Daksha, 44, and father Jitendra, 49, at the Scholemoor Crematorium in Bradford.
The bodies of the four were discovered at their detached house in the village of Clayton, Bradford, on October 27.
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Hide AdPost-mortem examinations on Daksha, Trisha and Nisha showed all three died in their beds as a result of stab wounds, while an examination of Mr Lad showed he died from “compression of the neck caused by hanging”.
The Lad family were devoted visitors to the Shree Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple in Leeds Road, Bradford, and the Shree Prajapati Association in Thornton Lane.
Mr and Mrs Lad worked for Bradford Council, while Trisha was a student at Leeds University and sister Nisha was a pupil at Thornton Grammar School.
More than 500 mourners attended their funeral yesterday, where Trisha and Nisha’s coffins arrived in two white glass sided carriages, each drawn by grey horses. The crematorium was so full many had to listen to the Hindu service outside.