The widow of a Fife murder victim is suing her jailed brother-in-law for £1.75 million for hiring a hitman for the killing.
Saimah Siddique is seeking damages from Mohammed ”Mo” Siddique (42) who was imprisoned for a minimum of 25 years last month after he was found guilty of murdering his brother and business associate Mohammed Nadeem Siddique, known as Toby.
Mrs Siddique (33) has raised a personal injuries action against the convicted killer seeking £1 million damages for herself and £250,000 for each of her three children.
She is also seeking £10,000 in her capacity as her late husband’s executor for his pain and suffering as a result of the shooting.
On Tuesday she secured a court order preventing Mo from disposing of his assets in the meantime. Following a brief hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Lord Menzies agreed to grant an inhibition on Siddique, who was jailed for life for the murder.
In her pleadings in the civil action it was said that Mrs Siddique, of Kirkcaldy, ”reasonably suspects that he is making efforts to dispose of assets to defeat her claim”.
Siddique, formerly of Auchtertool, in Fife, was found guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh of murdering his brother. Bulgarian gunman Tencho Andonov (28) of Livingston, and Deyan Nikolov (27) from Kirkcaldy who acted as a go-between in the deal were also convicted.
Andonov was ordered to serve at least 29 years and Nikolov was given a minimum term of 18 years under their life sentences.
The trial heard that Siddique was involved in property and security businesses and a nightclub in Fife.
The investigation into the murder of Toby Siddique (38) prompted one of the largest and most complex inquiries undertaken by Fife police and cost more than £1.5 million.
Mr Siddique was murdered at a house in Forres Drive, Glenrothes, on October 24 2010 when Andonov produced a gun and shot him at point black range.
In her damages claim the widow said the police caught the man who carried out the shooting and he was hired to kill her late husband by his brother and an associate of his who at one time worked for him as a bouncer at Blue Monday nightclub.
She said as a result of Siddique’s actions she and her children have suffered loss and damage.
Mrs Siddique said she had has been ”deprived of the society of her husband to whom she has been happily married for over 12 years”.
It is said that she and her children continue to suffer grief and sorrow at the death and the children have lost the society and guidance of their father to whom they were closely attached.