Facebook tribute image of Nishma Raithatha, whose sister was raped and murdered four years ago

A TEENAGER left traumatised by the brutal rape and murder of her older sister plunged to her death from the top of a car park in north-west London.

Nishma Raithatha, 15, who was found by police after falling from the car park at St George's shopping centre in Harrow, never came to terms with the murder of her sister Jeshma four years ago, an inquest heard.

A-level student Jeshma, 17, was repeatedly raped and stabbed in the heart by Viktor Dembovskis on her way home from school in May 2005.

The Latvian had been allowed into Britain despite a string of rape convictions in his country.

Nishma was 12 at the time and today an inquest heard the ordeal left her "unwell", including suffering from depression.

No more details of her illnesses were disclosed to Hornsey Coroners Court but coroner Andrew Walker said he was not "satisfied so I am sure" that her death was a suicide and recorded a narrative verdict.

Nishma's death days before her 16th birthday in Harrow, north-west London, meant engineer Suresh and admin clerk Manjula had lost two daughters within four years.

Referring to a diary written by Nishma in the years after her sister's death, the coroner asked the family: "It seems to me that in this terrible tragedy, and underneath it all, is it right that Nishma never came to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered and this made her unwell?"

Relatives in court including her mother, aunt and brother, all agreed.

Walker said: "Nishma fell from a building to her death. She had never come to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered and this had made her unwell.

"She had never come to terms with the loss of her sister who had been murdered and this had made her unwell"

"I know there is nothing I will ever be able to say to comfort you for a loss of this magnitude.

"One thing I can is that Nishma was looked after by her family and given every support through this illness. She could not have had better support from her family and friends.

"The loss of one child is devastating - the loss of two I can only begin to think how devastating that might be."

Recording his verdict, he said before recording a suicide verdict he had to be sure that the person intended to take their own life.

He said: "I am very much moved from what I have read in the notes left by Nishma and having read them I can't be satisfied so I am sure that her death was a suicide.

"In my judgement she did not kill herself."

Nishma was pronounced dead at the scene on 7 April this year and the cause of death was given as multiple injuries.

A report from GP Genevieve Small said over the last two years they had tried to help her recover from depression.

Dembovskis raped and killed Jeshma in west London six months after he arrived in Britain.

He fled to Latvia but was extradited and jailed for life at the Old Bailey after a trial. He had been jailed several times in Latvia, where a prosecutor once warned: "One day this man will kill."