Jury to begin deliberations in teen daughter murder case; parents on trial

A jury will begin its deliberations today in the trial of a couple accused of murdering of their daughter because they believed she brought “shame on the family”.

Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49, of Liverpool Road, Warrington, are alleged to have suffocated their 17-year-old daughter Shafilea with a plastic bag.