Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tearful boyfriend tells how family killed 'for honour' - Times (London)
Rhamat Suleimani tells a jury how his lover was murdered by her father and uncle because their relationship brought dishonour on her Kurdish family.
... Miss Mahmod, who had left an arranged and unhappy marriage, was found strangled and dumped in a suitcase in the back garden of a home in Birmingham last April. She had been missing since January.
Giving evidence at the trial into her murder, Mr Suleimani said they had continued to meet in secret and planned to have children. But they became petrified when Miss Mahmod thought that her father was planning to kill her, said Mr Suleimani. He told the court that he was threatened by a gang which said that because he was Muslim and Kurdish he could not choose his girlfriend. ...
Rhamat Suleimani tells a jury how his lover was murdered by her father and uncle because their relationship brought dishonour on her Kurdish family.
... Miss Mahmod, who had left an arranged and unhappy marriage, was found strangled and dumped in a suitcase in the back garden of a home in Birmingham last April. She had been missing since January.
Giving evidence at the trial into her murder, Mr Suleimani said they had continued to meet in secret and planned to have children. But they became petrified when Miss Mahmod thought that her father was planning to kill her, said Mr Suleimani. He told the court that he was threatened by a gang which said that because he was Muslim and Kurdish he could not choose his girlfriend. ...
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