Parents get life in jail for honour killing

A Pakistani-born couple were jailed for life by a British court for murdering their “westernised” teenage daughter in an apparent honour killing.

Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49, were told at Chester Crown Court in Cheshire, north-west England, that they would serve a minimum of 25 years each after suffocating their 17-year-old daughter Shafilea in 2003.

In a high-profile case, Shafilea’s sister Alesha had told the jury that her mother had said: “Just finish it here,” as they forced a plastic bag into Shafilea’s mouth in front of their other children.