Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Kurd in Germany kills his sister in honour killing for adopting "Western" life-style...

A 50-year-old Turkish Kurd was jailed for life in Germany on Tuesday over the brutal "honour killing" of his 20-year-old daughter, a murder carried out by the victim's twin brother and an accomplice.

Gulsum Semin was lured to a patch of wasteland on March 2 where her brother, named in media reports as Davut Semin, and his Russian accomplice strangled her with a clothes line until she lost consciousness, police said in April.

The pair then beat her in the face with sticks so badly that she died from her injuries, leaving her looking "as if she had been run over by a train," the Bild daily cited a medical expert as telling the court.

They then took her purse to look it look like a violent robbery and covered the body with leaves.

"Her skull was destroyed so much it was unrecognizable. The skull was broken, her eye sockets were broken," Bild quoted the judge as saying. More...

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