Helpless and desperate, Laila Islam called in police and found her daughter Rushdania Islam Bushra dead after breaking the door open.

During the dark incident, Bushra's father Serajul Islam, a retired assistant commissioner of police, had been in the US for treatment.

Bushra nicknamed Phool, a first year honours (marketing) student of City College, finished her study for the night and for good and went to bed after having coffee, sobbed Laila Islam after the incident. The inquest report brought in the horror of rape before her death.

Bushra's family has long been living in the house that belongs to her maternal uncle. As Bushra was the only daughter of her parents, she would have inherited the property, according to an investigation. She was killed over a land grab move by the people, convicted by a women and children repression prevention tribunal yesterday.

Islam, coming back home from the US, trashed the idea that the killers of his daughter sneaked into her bedroom through a window from outside. The killers came through the door that connects Bushra's room with the drawing room of the house, he insisted.

Islam, who had experience of working with the Criminal Investigation Department, said the broken part of the window of the bedroom does not allow any grown-up man in. Islam died this January.