I hope they go to jail for long time.
British Pakistani parents go on trial for killing daughter for dating boys
By Al Arabiya
A 17-year-old British Pakistani woman was allegedly killed by her parents for refusing to enter an arranged marriage, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.
Shafilea Ahmed was a victim of an honor killing in September 2003 in Warrington, Cheshire according to a court hearing on her case.
The young woman’s body was recovered near a river in early 2004 but despite an investigation police were unable to ascertain the cause of her death.
Then in August 2010, the deceased young woman’s sister, Rukish (who has changed her name to Alesha) broke her silence and admitted to seeing her parents kill Shafilea.
They were opposed to her dating boys and adopting a Western lifestyle,
Rukish said when she appeared as a witness for the prosecution.
Prosecutor Andrew Edis, QC was quoted by the newspaper as telling the jury: “[The parents] finally killed her because she had dishonored the family and brought shame on them. They had despaired of her ever becoming a daughter they could ever be proud of.”
The parents have denied the charges.
Edis told the jury: “You will have to decide whether you can really believe what [Rukish] said or not. If she is telling the truth, she has lived for the last nine years under the most extraordinary circumstances. If she is telling the truth this whole family, since September 2003, has been living in extraordinary circumstances. What an extraordinary thing to say of your parents, if it is true, that you were there and watching them murder your sister.”
According to the newspaper, Shafilea had run away from her house twice before she was forcibly taken to Pakistan with the aim of having her married there. The young woman is alleged to have swallowed bleach while in Pakistan after which she returned to England and began complaining of suffering violence by her parents.
During Monday’s hearing, Edis read extracts from two poems that Shafilea wrote in the months before her disappearance. “All they think about is honor. I was just like a normal kid. I just wanted to fit in. But my culture was different. But my family ignored.”