Anothr "Honour Killing" sentence...in the UK this time: There is NO way the people in the US are gong to put up with this too...It's bad enough that we are having the "Christmas Tree issues"....but """"Honour Killing""" because of someone's religious belief....NO WAY! Looks like it isn't going down well in the UK either.
'Honour Killing' Sentence
Updated: 04:12, Monday December 12, 2005
A father and his two sons convicted of the "honour killing" of a university student who had made his daughter pregnant will be sentenced later.
Bangladeshi waiter Chomir Ali, 44, ordered his sons to kill 19-year-old Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, an Iranian Muslim studying electrical engineering at Oxford Brookes University.
Oxford Crown Court heard last month of how Ali had become angry in the summer of 2003 when his 20-year-old daughter Manna Begum began going out with Mr Ghorbani-Zarin, since he already had an arranged marriage planned for her.
It "embarrassed" the family that the loving couple were seen in public holding hands and kissing.
After months of attempting to stop the relationship, Ali ordered his sons Mujibar Rahman, 19, and Mamnoor Rahman, 16, all of Asquith Road, Oxford, to kill their sister's boyfriend.
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On November 20 last year, Mr Ghorbani-Zarin's body was found with 46 stab wounds, mostly to the chest, in his car in an Oxford suburb.
All three, who were found guilty of murder, will be given life sentences by the trial judge, Mr Justice Gross, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
He will set the minimum terms they must serve before they can be considered for parole.
The jury heard that Ali confiscated Miss Begum's mobile telephone and banned her from leaving the house in a bid to stamp out the flourishing relationship with Mr Ghorbani-Zarin.
When his distraught daughter slit her wrist in an apparent suicide attempt in November 2003, the family would not open the door to paramedics.
Miss Begum ran away from home to stay with a friend's aunt and by August last year was pregnant by Mr Ghorbani-Zarin, who asked her to marry him.
After the killing, Ali was spotted stopping his red Toyota car at allotments and throwing a bag over a hedge.
The supermarket bag was found to contain a knife covered in Mr Ghorbani-Zarin's blood and bloodstained clothes.
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