Reuters reports a Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an “honor killing” carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man.
Woman raped before “honor killing”: court
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace. Her body was stuffed into a suitcase and taken about 100 miles to Birmingham where it was buried in the back garden of a house.
Her badly decomposed body was found in April 2006, three months after the killing.
Last month a jury found her father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari Mahmod, 51, guilty of murder after a three-month trial. Their associate Mohamad Hama, 30, had earlier admitted killing her.
They believed Banaz had brought shame on the family by leaving her husband, an Iraqi Kurd she had been forced to marry at 17, and falling in love with Rahmat Suleimani, an Iranian Kurd.
In the recordings, transcripts of which were relayed to the court, Hama and his friend are hearing laughing as he described how she was killed with Banaz’s uncle “supervising”.
Reading this makes me think we’re leaving in a sick world. And they did that in London.
I hope they invent something more painful and long lasting than the death sentence just for these fuckwits and people like them
by pketh (Jul 22, 2007 at 8 AM)I’ve been following this story since I saw it on google news a few weeks back - It’s hardcore…but also fascinating at the same time. What mindset can one possibly be in to destroy a woman (especially in that way) ?
I don’t know the details - the public knows nothing other than what the news reports…but, even not knowing the woman who was killed, I feel like she should be revenged…that these guys (or all people involved) should have their eye lids cut off (just to begin with)…
by anon (Aug 3, 2007 at 2 AM)that is sick… i thought all these things are supposed to happen in third world countries
by fyora (Aug 5, 2007 at 12 AM)