Banaz Mahmod was 21 years old, and very much in love, when she was strangled with a bootlace and her body stuffed into a suitcase.Of course, this sort of thing only comes to light when someone actually speaks up. How many other "missing woman" are actually the victims of this sort of "tribal justice"?
According to the prosecution, Banaz had to pay the "ultimate price" for bringing shame on her Kurdish family.
The Chief Investigating Officer in this case, Caroline Goode, told the BBC: "I do think that we are only scratching the surface of this.Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you.
One of the difficulties is that these things aren't often reported.
"In Banaz's case, if her boyfriend hadn't reported it, we would never have known that she was missing".
POSTSCRIPT: Did I mention...
Her father and her uncle were behind the whole thing.
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