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THE brother of missing Hounslow dad Mohammed Shah Subhani has hit out at police as the investigation into his disappearance shows little sign of reaching a conclusion.
Ali Subhani, 29, told MyLondon he feels police have failed to do their job in finding out what happened to Shah and tarnished his younger brother’s name in the process. Detectives have been searching for the 27-year-old for more than five months, since he vanished after leaving his Heston home on May 7.
Police are treating Shah’s disappearance as a murder investigation. They fear he has come to harm due to the length of time he has been missing, the fact bullet damage was found on his car when it was recovered and the criminality they say he was embroiled in.
Ali claims information shared by police about Shah’s supposed lifestyle and possible involvement in crime before his disappearance is untrue. He said: “It’s madness what’s gone on [with police linking Shah to crime] and nothing has been done about it.
“Basically the police aren’t telling my family anything [about what is] going on and they’re making up false things about my brother and how he was involved in selling drugs. My brother was not selling drugs, my brother was not involved in selling any drugs at all. They’ve given him a bad image.
“All the information the police have been given [about Shah’s apparent links to crime] isn’t true. The police haven’t done anything to do their job.”
The heartbroken brother says he quickly became so frustrated with the “lack of progress” he felt police were making that he started investigating the disappearance himself. Ali says he sourced CCTV of his brother’s last movements and gathered information for the police to use in their investigation.
“In the beginning I was the one looking for my brother for a whole month,” he said. “I was looking for my brother every single day, going everywhere possible that I thought could lead me to my brother.
“All the CCTV, the information of where he went, I gathered it for the police.” Ali added that he wants the truth to come out about what has happened to missing Shah, saying: “My family have seen no justice.
“The police have failed to do their job and are trying to brush my brother off as being a criminal.”
Police declined to comment on Ali’s criticism of the progress of the case.
In the latest development in the investigation, police recovered a black BMW X5 on cloned plates in Hounslow. It was found on August 3 with number plates YC67MFY.
Police now know it had been stolen overnight from Reading Road, in the Farnborough area of Hampshire, on February 8. Officers are keen to hear from anyone with information about this car’s movements between May 7 and August 3.
Officers are also keen to hear from anyone who may have information related to a Blue Range Rover Evogue, using false plates MF13 AOT, which was at the corner of Derby Road at the same time as Shah, at about 3.20pm on the day he went missing.
A £20,000 reward is on offer for information that leads to Shah and the prosecution of the individuals involved in his disappearance. Four people arrested in connection with Shah’s disappearance have been released under investigation. A fifth person arrested on suspicion of murder, kidnap/abduction and perverting the course of justice has been released on bail.