Mysterious phone call may hold the key to the disappearance of baby Rahma El …


A coronial inquest began in Sydney today in an attempt to crack the mystery of what happened to Rahma after she was seemingly stolen through the window of her family home by an unknown person





Rahma El-Dennaoui

What happened to her? Rahma El-Dennaoui at 19 months. Picture: Supplied
Source: The Daily Telegraph





A MYSTERIOUS call from Lebanon may hold clues to the baffling disappearance of toddler Rahma El-Dennaoui, who vanished from her home six years ago.


The call came the day before the 20-month-old girl’s suspected abduction from her family’s home in Lurnea, in southwest Sydney, on November 10, 2005, reported The Daily Telegraph.

Rahma, who would now be eight years old, had been sleeping in the queen bed she shared with two older sisters. A hole, large enough for a child to be lifted through, was cut in the flyscreen above the bed with a sharp knife before her siblings woke to find their sister missing.

An inquest into Rahma’s disappearance, which opened at the Glebe Coroner’s Court yesterday, will hear evidence about a call from Lebanon received the day before the toddler disappeared “which may have commented upon her imminent disappearance”.

Robert Bromwich, counsel assisting the coroner, said: “The phone call may have amounted to some prediction of the abduction. It may indicate she is alive.” It was possible Rahma was abducted and taken to her family’s native Lebanon on a false passport, he added.

But a Department of Immigration investigation, including the examination of airport CCTV footage taken after Rahma went missing, returned no solid leads.

Mr Bromwich also said he could not rule out that the toddler had met with foul play similar to the tragic death of Daniel Morcombe in Queensland.

He said Rahma’s disappearance had “confounded” police, who were unable to find any signs she had been killed or a clear motive for her abduction.

“Someone must have seen her and somebody must know where she was taken. If she is still alive, somebody must know where she is now,” he said.

Ten witnesses, many from the extended El-Dennaoui family, will give evidence at the inquest. The court also heard one of Rahma’s sisters may have been the intended target.

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