Yet another horrific “honour” killing sees a young women horrifically murdered by a male relative, in this case a brother. The pain and anguish of her last minutes is almost unbearable to contemplate.
Miss Nazir, 25, had rejected suitors lined up to meet her in Pakistan and had been summoned to the family home in Southall, Middlesex.
The father, also called Azhar, Nazir and the youth launched the attack and at one point dragged her by her hair back into the property.
Miss Nazir, a businesswoman described as “strong-willedâ€, was heard to shout at her mother, Irshad Begum: “You are not my mother any more.†She was then held down as a scarf was tied around her neck and her throat was cut in three places.
But it gets even worse – for the murderer’s two daughters – aged TWO and FOUR – were made to watch the killing, and were splattered in the blood of their cousin.
This can only be described as terrorism – those girls will no doubt be horribly emotionally scarred for the rest of their life. And while this is no doubt an extreme, it suggests that many more small, vulnerable, children must be being terrorised within families.
Is enough being done to warn girls and women at risk? (And to prevent girls being terrorised just with the threat of it?) I doubt it – of course warning someone “be careful, your parents might kill you” is not an easy message, but should more be done?
Certainly the government’s cowardice in dropping proposed legislation against forced marriage won’t help.
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