A teenage girl was murdered by her parents in front of her siblings for wearing a top that showed off her arms.

Shafilea Ahmed, 17, suffered years of abuse from her mum and dad before they decided to end her life for bringing ‘dishonour’ to the family.

The couple pinned their daughter down on the sofa and stuffed a carrier bag into her mouth until she turned blue and suffocated in September 2003.


Shafilea before her death


Shafilea's father, Iftikha Ahmed.

Her father, Iftikhar Ahmed, then put her body in the back of his car and dumped it 70 miles away from their home in Warrington. The next day police were alerted when Shafilea wasn’t seen at school – but her parents stated she had run away.

Now one of the teenager’s close family friends, Shanin Munir, has helped reveal the extent of the abuse she went through before her death. In a new documentary called ‘When Missing Turns into Murder’, she said Shafilea’s mum and dad would often call her a ‘LovePeddler and a prostitute’ and beat her if they believed she was misbehaving.

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Her parents tried to curb her ‘rebellious’ nature and one year arranged a holiday to Pakistan, where they intended to marry her off to a 40 year old cousin even though she was just 17 years old.

Shafilea refused to go and so her father drugged her with sleeping pills as a result. After awaking in Pakistan, the teenager was so terrified about what would happen she drank bleach in a suicide attempt, severely burning her throat and oesophagus. She was rushed to hospital and kept there for two months, while her father and siblings flew back home to the UK.

After that, the abuse grew more intense and Shafilea’s parents planned an ‘honour killing’ as a way to end the ‘shame’ she had brought on the family. During a furious row over her short-sleeved top, they killed her in the living room and made her siblings watch.

Shafilea’s body was found five months after her death in the River Kent near Sedgwick, Cumbria.

The family held a funeral and pretended to grieve, but her sister Alesha later went to the police and bravely told them what had happened.

In a new documentary called ‘When Missing Turns into Murder’, she said Shafilea’s mum and dad would often call her a ‘LovePeddler and a prostitute’ and beat her if they believed she was misbehaving.

The teenager had dreamed of being a lawyer and had ‘texted boys’, although not on her own phone because ‘her parents would check’, Shanin said.

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Tiro balo fogun odun...

Horrible

1slam mentality/ mindset.

Islam, the enemy of peace and freedom. May God rest the poor girl in Peace

The parents are terrorist. If they can do this to their daughter in front of her siblings and their children. Then, imagine what they will do to other people's children. They have turned Islam into a weapon for killing and maiming innocent people. They use islam to put fear into women and children if they resist, challenge their evil doctrine or denounce the religion totally. Parents and others who take life in the name of religion will never know peace.

What a peaceful way of life

Shame.

Serious?

Islam Islam what a useless religion

I fear for the day people with other faiths will stand against this PiSSful people... even Mohammed will deny them...

Hmmmm

Peteryt01:
Tiro balo fogun odun...

Ojo Kan Loto ooba

They are the dumbest and most paranoid fake and man made religion founded by a paranoid illiterate fake prophet.

daroz:
1slam mentality/ mindset.

This is not Islam practice
Committing a murderer is against the teaching of God

Hmmm Islamabad religion.

Alhamumudumilahumdulili

Sick people.