Parents jailed for 25 years each for honour killing
A couple who killed their "westernised" teenage daughter because they believed she had brought shame on the family were today jailed for 25 years each for her murder - nine years after the brutal killing.
A couple who killed their \"westernised\" teenage daughter because they believed she had brought shame on the family were today jailed for 25 years each for her murder - nine years after the brutal killing.
Iftikhar Ahmed and his wife Farzana were jailed for at least 25 years each at Chester Crown Court today for the murder of their 17-year-old daughter Shafilea.Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49, of Liverpool Road, Warrington, Cheshire, suffocated Shafilea, 17, with a plastic bag in 2003 in an apparent "honour killing".
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