Mohammed Taroos Khan killed 20-year-old at home in Bradford after she would not marry man in Pakistan
A man who killed his niece after she refused to marry a man in Pakistan has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her murder.
She had been living at the house with another of her uncles and her grandmother under the terms of a forced marriage protection order, following attempts by her father to force her to marry a cousin in Pakistan “by threat of violence”, a jury heard. However, sentencing Khan, 53, to life in prison on Wednesday, Mr Justice Garnham said: “It is not possible to identify a motive for this dreadful attack by you on an innocent young woman.”
“I decline to speculate on your motive and I reject the prosecution’s suggestion that I should treat this as any form of so-called honour killing.”
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