Ken’s wife saw 2 youths going up to terrace

Vijay Singh & Mateen Hafeez TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Navi Mumbai/Mumbai: US national Ken Haywood’s wife Anne Marie, in her statement to the anti-terrorism squad (ATS), has said that she had seen two youngsters going up to the terrace of their Palm Beach building with two bags on their backs a few days prior to the Ahmedabad bomb blasts.

Anne, who is an accent teacher in a multinational company’s call centre, said in her statement to the ATS that she had seen the two, who appeared to be in their early twenties, climbing the staircase and heading to the terrrace.

No mention of youths’ entry in Sanpada bldg register
Mumbai: Anne Marie, wife of American Ken Haywood from whose Internet Protocol address the terror email was sent, said although she had seen two youths go to the terrace of their Gunina apartment before the Ahmedabad blasts, she could not remember the exact date the duo visited the building.

Anne said she was standing outside the door of her flat, 1503, in the evening when she noticed them. The ATS is probing the origin of a terror mail which was sent to some TV channels claiming that an outfit, Indian Mujahideen, was behind the blasts.

“Anne has given the description of the two youths and we are now making further inquiries into that direction,’’ confirmed ATS additional commissioner, Param Bir Singh. The youths, according to Anne, had entered the building in the evening and she did not see them using an elevator. “Both were ordinary looking and had bags on their back. I couldn’t make out what they were talking about,’’ Anne is believed to have told the police. The police has been saying that there is a possibility that Haywood’s IP was hacked and someone used it. She told the police that since the terrace door was locked so the youths returned within sometime.

The two boys were reportedly not residents of the building. More surprising is the fact that there is no mention of the youngsters’ entry in the building’s register. “The watchmen have also been questioned and we are working on the information from Anne,’’ said Singh. The police are preparing the boys’ sketches. Anne could not say if the boys came in a vehicle.

The Times of India, August 1, 2008