Four get life after honour killing attempt targets wrong house

FOUR men who murdered a couple in a bungled honour killing attempt were jailed for life yesterday.

The gang’s intended victim was a Muslim man who was having an affair with a married sister of the ringleader of the arson attack but they firebombed the wrong house.

Abdullah Mohammed, 41, and his wife, Aysha, 39, were overcome by smoke and fumes at their home in Blackburn, Lancashire, and later died in hospital.

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