Trigger. Honour killing: Banaz Mahmood would've been 32 today

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I just wanted to remember her really.

5 times she went to police to ask for help and to say she might be killed. All because she left her husband--who raped and abused her.

Her father tried to kill her. He even made her bring the suitcase into which he planned to stuff her body.

Her brother tried to kill her sister, who fled and now lives in hiding.

Her father and uncle employed 3 cousins to torture, rape, sodomise and strangle Banaz in her family home. They stuffed her body in a suitcase and buried her in a backgarden.

The murderers fled to Iran. Detective Caroline Goode would not give up and eventually they were all caught.

Sadly once justice was done, her love Rahmat hung himself.

Honour killing, violence and forced marriage is real and happening.

See sharan.org.uk/ for ways to help.

Please watch this documentary but be aware it is hard watching

@Shirleyphallus No but I can criticise it. I'm not taking my anger out on anyone. I'm suggesting that on an post made in honour of a death, such superfluous comments are disrespectful. You can of course disagree, everyone is the master of their own morality.

Well, I don't know what else I can say to make amends really?

@funkyfunkybeat12 Oh hey it's ok. Thanks for saying that. I wasnt sure if you were just the usual internet troll but you clearly arent. I'm interested in the info discrepancy now so I've asked Caroline to clarify. xxxx

Awful case. Her body was found a few roads away from where I lived at the time (Handsworth, Birmingham), the thought of what she went through sickens me. May she rest in peace.

Poor young girl, I remember following the case at the time. So sad to see her telling the police everything in that video interview. It must’ve taken a lot for her to ask for help and when she tentatively asked what they could do for her she was just dismissed really.