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Subject: Shafilea Ahmed case
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valatine 21.05.12 - 10:18pm
Iftikhar Ahmed, 52 and Farzana Ahmed, 49, of Warrington, deny the murder of 17-year-old Shafilea, whose remains were found in c*mbria in February 2004.At the start of their trial at Chester Crown Court, the jury heard Alesha Ahmed witnessed the killing. * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:19pm
The prosecution alleges the couple killed their daughter because she was Westernised and refused to obey them. * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:19pm
Opening the case against them, he said: The defendants, having spent the best part of 12 months trying to really crush her, realised they were never going to be able to succeed and finally killed her because her conduct dishonoured the family, bringing shame on them. * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:20pm
He said the case had taken a long time to be brought to trial because it was not until August 2010 that a witness to the crime came forward. * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:21pm
This witness is Alesha Ahmed, Shafilea's younger sister, he said. * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:24pm
The court heard Shafilea was taken to Pakistan by her family in 2003 in an attempt to force her into a marriage Mr Edis said she drank bleach on the trip as her parents tried to bully her into an arranged marriage.The defendants later claimed Shafilea drank the bleach by mistake, thinking it was mouthwash.Ms Aslam later told police that she asked Shafilea why she drank the bleach.Shafilea replied: You don't know what they did to me there. * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:26pm
The court heard that Shafilea told Ms Aslam that the Ahmeds had accepted a rishta (or formal offer of marriage) for her.That was why she said she drank the bleach * +

valatine 21.05.12 - 10:26pm
Her body was found by workmen on the banks of the River Kent, near Kendal * +

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