THE daughter of Farah Swaleh Noor, whose dismembered corpse was found in the Royal Canal in Dublin, collapsed and died soon after learning that her father had been murdered.

The estranged wife of the 38-year-old Kenyan, who was brutally hacked to death in March 2005, has spoken exclusively to the Sunday Tribune about how her family has been torn apart.

Husna Mohamed Said revealed how she has contemplated suicide since the death of her daughter and wants to see her husband's Irish partner jailed for her alleged role in his death. The 36-year-old is living in severe financial hardship in Mombasa, Kenya and has not been contacted by the Irish authorities about financial compensation over Noor's murder.

She has disputed allegations that Noor was a violent rapist and said he never once hit her during their marriage.

Husna Said married Noor when she was 17 and the couple lived in Mombasa and had three children together. Noor walked out on his family in 1993 saying he was going to Europe to set up a base and would then fly his wife and children over. Said was pregnant at the time.

But it appears Noor had no intention of ever seeing his family again. He lived in London until December 1996 when he managed to board a flight to Dublin and claim refugee status, making up an elaborate story that he was fleeing from wartorn Somalia.

He met Kathleen Mulhall in 2001 and they moved to Cork together after Kathleen left her husband and family.

Farah Swaleh Noor was murdered in Mulhall's flat in Ballybough, Dublin, in March 2005 after being stabbed 22 times and beaten with a hammer. He was cut into eight pieces and dumped in the Royal Canal at Ballybough Bridge.

Kathleen's daughters Charlotte and Linda were both convicted of the killing and claimed their mother begged them to kill Noor or he would eventually murder her.

Kathleen Mulhall fled to England when her daughters were charged. The DPP has decided to prosecute the 52year-old with being an accessory to the murder. She is expected to be extradited shortly.

During his years in Ireland, Noor kept in contact with his wife and children and regularly sent his elderly mother money. But Said did not find out her husband had been murdered until six months after he died, when gardai discovered Noor's identity and tracked his family down.

Said's teenage daughter Somoe was weak and suffered with health problems.

She was often confined to a wheelchair and when the 17-year-old heard her father was dead, her health deteriorated.

Battle for life She eventually fell into a coma and lost her battle for life. Husna Said told the Sunday Tribune: "She got a shock over her father's death and got a fever. She was 17 years old, the first born.

"When she heard the news, she got a fever and lost her memory. She then fell into a coma for two days and died.

She was in high school. She lost consciousness and never woke up. I miss her so much because she was a beautiful person. Sometimes I feel like killing myself."

Said has two other children . . . 15-year-old Mohamed and 13-year-old Zuleh. She says the whole family was affected and traumatised by Noor's death . . . and that she herself will never get over her daughter's death.

"The first one was the most important one and I loved her very much, " she said. "I have no one to help me and am really going through a hard time. Sometimes I want to commit suicide because I have nothing left in this world."

Farah Swaleh Noor's mother used to give Said some of the money her son would send from Ireland but since his death this has stopped and the entire family is living in poverty. She has applied to Ireland's Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for compensation but has had no contact so far.

"They sent me some forms to fill in and I sent them back last March but I have heard nothing since then. I am supporting my two kids for the last two years without any money, " she said.

"I am a single woman and have no money. Life is very tough with the kids and it is hard bringing them up. I cannot pay their school fees.

Farah left us and I have been supporting them by myself ever since. I work long hours as a cook and have to rush home to prepare them dinner.

Life is very hard."

Husna Said maintains Noor's relatives in Kenya are extremely angry that Kathleen Mulhall has not faced a jury to answer to any alleged role she might have played in the murder of the Kenyan.

"Of course, I'd like to see her in jail and Farah's mum is the same, " she said. "She complains, asking why is she not arrested or in jail. I want to sue Kathleen. She can't run away just like that. Wherever she is, she will never be comfortable for the rest of her life. Allah will never forgive."

Said had asked Noor for a divorce shortly before his murder because "he didn't care about his family and didn't send money, so we argued.

He used to call me about 2005 and I have many letters he used to send me.

"I told him I wanted a divorce because he was not responsible for the kids.

Everything fell on me. He didn't care about the kids. He liked drinking. I didn't trust him, he was an alcoholic."

Farah Swaleh Noor was portrayed in court as a violent womaniser who used to rape his girlfriends. He got two women pregnant while in Ireland and they both made allegations of violence and rape against him. However, Said does not recognise this description as fitting her husband.

"Farah never beat me or treated me badly, " she said.

"Kathleen was his girlfriend.

I don't think Farah raped anybody. He did not ever rape me. She's lying if she says he beat her."

Noor and Said were from strict Muslim families and Said had to stay indoors mourning her husband for four months and 12 days following his death.

Noor never attempted to hide the fact he had two children in Ireland and wrote about them in letters to his wife. According to Said: "Farah sent me a picture of his son a long time ago. If it was possible I would like to adopt the child and bring him up as a Muslim like Farah would have wanted."

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has the power to give monetary compensation to Noor's family but Husna Said says she is not all about money.

"No matter how much I get, I will never be happy for the rest of my life. I loved Farah a lot. He was my first love and I married him when I was 17. It was a marriage of love and not arranged. I think I can write a book about my life."