Shafilea Ahmed News

Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed have been sentenced to life with a minimum of 25 years for killing their daughter. The judge, Mr Justice Roderick Evans, said they had killed her for "cultural reasons" and they it had been "as fundamental breach of trust as can be imagined".

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In 2004, although Shafilea's parents were the prime suspects, they protested their innocence. Speaking at the time to ITV News, they objected to the way police handled their case.

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Alesha Ahmed, Shafilea's younger sister, found the courage to tell the truth about her sister's death. It meant Cheshire Police could fully understand the terrible sequence of events which took place in the family home. Police said it was a "vile and disgraceful act".

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DSI Geraint Jones of Cheshire Police said: "For me this is a simple case of murder. Domestic abuse by two parents.

There is always a trigger. In the case of Shafilea the abuse she suffered is motivated by her parents desire to control her to make her conform to their interpretation of Pakistani culture."

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What was it that brought you two, her parents, the people who had given her life, to the point of killing her? You chose to bring up your family in Warrington but although you lived in Warrington your social and cultural attitudes were those of rural Pakistan and it was those which you imposed upon your children. Shafilea was a determined, able and ambitious girl who wanted to live a life which was normal in the country and in the town in which you had chosen to live and bring up your children.

However, you could not tolerate the life that Shafilea wanted to live. You wanted your family to live in Pakistan in Warrington. Although she went to local schools, you objected to her socialising with girls from what has been referred to as the white community. You objected to her wearing western clothes and you objected to her having contact with boys. She was being squeezed between two cultures, the culture and way of life that she saw around her and wanted to embrace, and the culture and way of life you wanted to impose on her.

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Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed have been sentenced to life with a minimum of 25 years for killing their daughter. The judge, Mr Justice Roderick Evans, said they had killed her for "cultural reasons" and they it had been "as fundamental breach of trust as can be imagined".

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Iftikhar and Faranza Ahmed have been jailed for life - with a minimum term of 25 years - after being found guilty of the murder of their daughter, Shafilea.

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ITV News tracked down Iftikhar Ahmed's first wife, Vivi Andersen, in Copenhagen. She married Iftikhar when she was 21 and they had a baby together.

Speaking to Juliet Bremner she said Iftikhar embraced Western life. He used to go 'to the disco, drink beers' but then secretly married his cousin.

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Justice has finally been done. It's taken a long time for this case to be resolved so we pay tribute to the police and the courts. The strong message goes out and should be very clear: if you engage in honour killings, if you engage in forced marriages, you will be caught and brought to justice. Honour killings go against Islam. Islam totally forbids honour killings, it forbids forced marriages and if anybody thinks somehow that they are doing these actions as a result of their faith, then they are seriously misguided.

I have spoken to a lot of Muslim scholars and it's very clear that these people should not be behaving in this way. We should not be forcing our sons and daughters to marry people. As a parent, I cannot begin to think and comprehend how a parent would go about and kill their children. I just can't comprehend that and only these two people will be able to say why they did what they did. It's wrong. It's morally wrong.

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