The police and prosecutors were not convinced and suspected that Mohammed had been instructed to kill Samaira by other members of the family, with prosecutor Nazir Afzal stating: "We knew there was a wider web of guilt (...) We had to break the omertà, the code of silence. We knew the people involved would not talk."
Police and prosecutors did not believe Mohammed acted alone in killing Samaira. They suspected involvement from other family members, as prosecutor Nazir Afzal stated, "We knew there was a larger network of culpability (...) We needed to shatter the code of silence, the omertà."