He took in the scene, which at first he thought must be an accident, before he saw the bodies, and the bullet holes. Martin, a Brit, had a holiday home nearby. Moments later, another cyclist, former RAF pilot Brett Martin, arrived. She would remain hidden there for the next eight hours.Īt some point, a French cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, 45, happened upon the horrific scene. Zeena, just four, was hiding under her mother’s skirt in the back seat, unseen by the assassin. Zainab, seven years old at the time, who was outside the vehicle, was also shot, pistol-whipped and left for dead. He, his wife and mother-in-law were then shot dead at close range. Saad had parked his car, the engine still running, when someone approached them. It was a warm afternoon, and they’d stopped to pick apples. Saad al-Hilli, 50, and his wife Iqbal, 47, their daughters Zainab and Zeena, and Saad’s mother-in-law Suhalia, 74, were in the lakeside town of Annecy, near the Swiss border. In September 2012, a British-Iraqi family from Surrey were on what would turn out to be their final family holiday together, one that would end in the brutal murder of three of them.
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