Pakistani parents in Britain jailed for 'honour killing' of "westernised" daughter...

A mother and father who killed their 'Westernised' teenage daughter because they believed she brought shame on the family were jailed for life today - nine years after the brutal killing.

Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49, were told they would both serve a minimum of 25 years in prison after a jury at Chester Crown Court convicted them of the murder of 17-year-old Shafilea.

Mr Justice Roderick Evans told them: 'Your concern about being shamed in your community was greater than the love of your child.

'She was being squeezed between two cultures, the culture and way of life that she saw around her and wanted to embrace, and the culture and way of life you wanted to impose on her.'

The trial heard that they suffocated the teenager with a plastic bag at the family home in Warrington, Cheshire, in September 2003. Full story...

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