DETECTIVE chief inspector Caroline Goode had been searching for Banaz Mahmod for three long months when she found her, buried in a suitcase in a deep hole in the back garden of a house in Birmingham.Banaz Mahmod was failed by the police and murdered by her family in a brutal 'honour' killing
She quickly realised that this was more than a standard missing person’s case. “Banaz had made several allegations to police that her father had tried to kill her and that her uncle had threatened to kill her,” she explains.“And even though she used to text Rahmat several times a day, from the morning of January 24, 2006, there was nothing.
“He was a strict husband,” says softly spoken Banaz on camera. “Whenever he wanted to have sex, it was just his way – he wouldn’t take no for an answer and he would just start raping me.He said to me that he’d kill me if I said anything to anyone. I didn’t know if this was normal in my culture or here.”
According to Karma Nirvana, a charity for victims of honour-based violence, the latest data points to 12 killings taking place in the UK every year. But in reality, this is thought to be the tip of the iceberg.“Honour-based abuse often goes undetected, and as such goes under-reported in police and prosecution statistics as it’s compounded by a barrier of shame,” reveals Natasha Rattu, a barrister and Karma Nirvana’s executive director.
When one of her cousins spotted Banaz and Rahmat kissing outside Morden Tube station on December 2, 2005, her uncle Ari was quickly alerted.Ari called a meeting of male family members at his home in Mitcham, where it was agreed that Banaz and Rahmat were bringing shame on the family and must be murdered.
On New Year’s Eve, Mahmod told his daughter they were going to her grandmother’s house in Wimbledon to discuss her divorce from Abbas.He asked her to carry a large, empty suitcase from the car into the living room when they arrived. With the curtains drawn, Mahmod then forced Banaz to drink brandy. The paramedics who attended described her as being so frightened that she wouldn’t leave the ambulance until a security guard was present. But when police arrived at the hospital, her story was dismissed as being too outlandish to be believed. →The 20 year old had been raped, then kicked, stamped on and strangled to death with the help of her own family
What a horrible evil family.
No doubt the police didn't want to upset a certain community
When is this religion going to step out of the dark ages.
Ahh, diversity. Everybody has the same values, right?
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