The family of Mohammed Shah Subhani have joined detectives investigating his disappearance and murder to make a new appeal to the public to come forward with information that could help the Met bring those responsible to justice. 

His family spoke in public on Tuesday, 7 January for the first time since it was confirmed that human remains found in a wooded area adjacent to Hedgerley Lane, Beaconsfield, belonged to Shah. Specialist officers continue to search the large area as part of their extensive enquiries in the case.

During a visit to the site to lay flowers, pray and pay tribute to their beloved son, brother and partner, they urged members of the public to come forward if they had seen the key suspect vehicle – the black BMW X5 on cloned plates of YC67 MFY – or its two occupants when it was seen loitering in Hedgerley Lane in the days after Friday, 7 May last year.

The vehicle, which had been stolen overnight from Reading Road in Farnborough, Hampshire on Friday, 8 February, was later recovered by police on Tuesday, 3 August in Hounslow. They family also renewed their pleas for any other pieces of information that could prove beneficial to progressing the police investigation.

Quirat, his elder sister, said: “What happened to Shah, no one deserves – the only thing we look forward to in our lives now is justice for him. For this reason, we beg you all to go back and try remember if there was anything suspicious you saw around Hedgerley Lane or Hounslow around 7 May last year. Was there something that you thought looked odd? Did you hear something? Did you find yourself questioning some activities taking place?

“We appeal to the public to please come forward and help justice to be served. Shah didn’t deserve this. No one deserves this. It is now up to you all to help us unveil the faces of the monsters who did this and get them behind bars forever.”

Paying tribute to her brother, she recalled the moment that the family was forced to hear the devastating confirmation that the human remains found did belong to Shah.

“When this heartbreaking news was delivered, we felt as if someone had pulled the ground beneath us and we had been swallowed whole. We had waited in hope and prayed that one day, against all odds, Shah will walk through the door and all this would be over. Never did we think Shah would be discovered seven months later, just 15 miles away from home.

“It is beyond our imagination that something so horrific happened to our loving Shah. These monsters maliciously killed our brother mercilessly and disregarded his body in an isolated woodland. We couldn’t even have fathomed this in our worst nightmares. Not only was Shah robbed of life, but also robbed of a rightful burial.

“Shah was a loving and caring young man who had his whole life ahead of him. He always aspired to do well in life and made sure his friends and family around him felt loved. His four-month-old baby girl didn’t even get a chance to experience all the love her Dad had to give her, he was such an amazing son, brother and uncle, you can only imagine how much of an amazing Dad he would have been. Our hearts are broken, this pain will never go away.”