Honor murder in Middlesex

A 25-year-old Pakistani British woman was in love with an Afghan man of whom her family did not approve. When the couple announced their engagement last year, the woman was summoned to her parent’s home in Southall, Middlesex. There her 30-year-old brother, her father, and a 17-year-old cousin attacked her and repeatedly stabbed her, in the presence of the brother’s young children, until she was dead. The brother has just been found guilty of murder, the cousin has been found guilty of his role in the murder, and the father has fled to Pakistan.

From the Times of London story:

As she screamed for help one neighbour banged on the front door, but the father emerged claiming that his daughter was having a fit.

When police arrived they found a trail of blood from the front of the house to the back door and then to the hallway where Miss Nazir’s body was slumped in a pool of blood.

The amount of blood on the children suggested that they were only feet from the attack. A neighbour spotted Miss Nazir’s bloodstained arm emerge momentarily from the front door before she was dragged back inside and the door slammed shut.

She received 18 stab wounds and three cuts to her throat.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 20, 2006 09:19 AM | Send