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Banaz Mahmod 'honour' killing cousins guilty of murder; ...celebrating diversity!
Topic Started: Nov 10 2010, 05:32 PM (60 Views)
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From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11716272
Two cousins have been found guilty of murdering a relative because her family did not approve of her boyfriend.

Banaz Mahmod, 20, an Iraqi Kurd from Mitcham, south London, was strangled in January 2006 and her body buried in a suitcase in Handsworth, Birmingham.

Mohammed Saleh Ali and Omar Hussain, both 28, of no fixed address, had denied murder at the Old Bailey trial.

The 20-year-old's father Mahmod Mahmod and uncle Ari Mahmod were jailed for her murder in 2007.

Saleh and Hussain, who were also found guilty of burying Miss Mahmod's body, conspiring to kidnap her boyfriend Rahmat Sulemani and threatening to kill him, fled to Iraq after the murder.

But detectives tracked them down and managed to have them extradited.

In a letter handed to police weeks before she died, Miss Mahmod had named Hussain and Ali as men "ready and willing to do the job of killing me".

The pair carried out the murder with a third man, Mohammad Hama, on behalf of Banaz's father and uncle.

Banaz was seen by her father and uncle to have brought shame on her family after she left her violent husband and later began a relationship with Mr Sulemani.

Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, said: "It was a cold-blooded and callously executed murder."

Ali and Hussain were among a group of young men who were willing to do the uncle's bidding, Mr Temple said.

Miss Mahmod had learned of the plot after a phone call by her uncle to her mother, and told police she feared for her life in December 2005.

But when the officer she sent the letter to called her she said she did not want any further action to be taken but that it should be recorded "in case anything happened to her".

On New Year's Eve her father took her to her grandmother's house and tried to make her drink a bottle of brandy but, realising he was going to try to kill her, she smashed a window and escaped.


In hospital, she recorded her fears on footage - later used to convict her murderers.

But the officer who interviewed her about what happened dismissed her account as fantasy and wanted to charge her with criminal damage for breaking the window.

On 24 January 2006, Miss Mahmod's parents left the family home and her mother said she had gone by the time they returned later that morning.

Ari and Mahmod Mahmod were jailed for life in July 2007, with minimum terms of 23 and 20 years, for arranging the killing. Mohammad Hama was also given a life sentence, with a minimum 17-year tariff.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission report in April 2008 found Miss Mahmod had been let down by police.

Sardar Mahmood, 27, of Messenger Road, Smethwick, Birmingham, was found not guilty of the kidnap, threats and perverting justice charges brought against him and was discharged.

Ali and Hussain will be sentenced later on Wednesday.

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