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'Honour killing' family get life sentences
By staff and agencies
Last Updated: 2:28pm BST 20/07/2007
Three family members of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod have been
jailed for life at the Old Bailey today.
The 20-year-old's father, Mahmod Mahmod, 54, was among the three men
sentenced, and will have to serve a minimum term of 20 years.
His brother Ari, 51, will serve a minimum of 23 years.
A third killer Mohamad Hama, 30, was told he would spend at least 17
years in prison.
Banaz Mahmod was strangled because her family disapproved of her
relationship with her boyfriend.
Hama and three other men who have left the country killed her during
two hours of torture at her home.
She was raped and subjected to degrading sex acts before succumbing to
an agonising death.
The murder was ordered by her Iraqi Kurd father and uncle after her
affair with fellow Kurd Rahmat Sulemani, 29, was discovered.
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