JAILED FOR LIFE FOR MURDERING SHAFILEA

2:39pm Friday 3rd August 2012 in News

JAILED FOR LIFE JAILED FOR LIFE

FARZANA and Iftikhar Ahmed have been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years for the murder of their daughter Shafilea.

They were found guilty of killing the teenager by a unanimous verdict at Chester Crown Court on Friday.

Mr Justice Roderick Evans said Shafilea had been 'squeezed' between two cultures.

He told the defendants: "You chose to bring up your family in Warrington but although you lived in Warrington, your social and cultural attitudes were those of rural Pakistan and it was those you imposed on your children.

"You wanted your children to live in Pakistan in Warrington.

"Your problem was that in what you referred to as your community, Shafilea's conduct was bringing shame upon you and your concern about being shamed in your community was greater than the love of your child.

"In order to rid yourselves of that problem, you killed Shafilea by suffocating her in the presence of your four children."

 

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Comments(19)

LJ says...
2:45pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Lets hope they learn the real meaning of 'honour' while they're inside

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warrington_biker says...
2:47pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Justice has been done. ROT you evil pair.

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cookie1974 says...
3:07pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Justice at last, lets hope they rot in jail

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kay says...
3:48pm Fri 3 Aug 12

These were the people who should have loved and protected Shafilea.

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smallscousefox says...
5:16pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Bloody good!
At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/
To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist.
r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x

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HappyMisery says...
5:30pm Fri 3 Aug 12

**Claps**

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Daz@SankeyviaOrford says...
5:37pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Hope they both get bullied in prison , they then may get to feel what it is like to be a the receiving end of bullying control freaks.... Also now it has been confirmed that the house was the place of death . Maybe people should lay flowers and messages of consonance out side. They should be forced to sell the house and any other assets to restore some of the money put up by the public purse. I can't understand why the police have been guarding the house 24 hours a day for the last 4 days and they are still there now !? What an absolute waist of our money and resources ...

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my point says...
6:28pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Thank god for that. call yourselves parents, your more like monsters. How could you do that to your daughter.
and you "mother" what kind of mother are you. you let that animal of a husband of yours suffocate your daughter to death in front of your other children. You dont deserve children. There is a saying in England ..." What comes around goes around" and yours has just spun round and smacked the pair of you in the face and thats just the begining of your comuppances, i hope are subjected to lives of hell in jail.

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choperado says...
7:51pm Fri 3 Aug 12

The cops are at the house cos someone broke a window. They fear reprisals as serious as arson which would be very worrying for the neighbours.
I also hope they now lose the house, cos they won't be paying the mortgage from cell block H.
He certainly won't be so smug when those gates shut every night for 25 years. It brings a smile to my face to think of it.

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LJ says...
8:55pm Fri 3 Aug 12

Don't forget though, their remaining children have to rebuild their lives now. Where to start with that, I don't know

R.I.P Shafilea

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immy007 says...
5:39am Sat 4 Aug 12

smallscousefox wrote:
Bloody good!
At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/
To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist.
r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x
just like to say its notting to do with religion.

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Daz@SankeyviaOrford says...
8:50am Sat 4 Aug 12

immy007 wrote:
smallscousefox wrote:
Bloody good!
At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/
To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist.
r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x
just like to say its notting to do with religion.
I would just like to say ! Immy007 ... There twisted believes and miss interpretation of religion have had a LOT to do with the slaughter, for so called 'honour' of there beutiful dareing to be westernised young lady ... Either way there still murdering ba$+^rds.... It realy is a pitty we couldn't hang them! We spell 'nothing' like this round here :)

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Freeborn John says...
9:04am Sat 4 Aug 12

immy007 wrote:
smallscousefox wrote:
Bloody good!
At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/
To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist.
r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x
just like to say its notting to do with religion.
Seeing as a certain religion holds that women are subservient to men in the eyes of God, I suggest that religion did set the stage for this tragedy...

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choperado says...
9:35am Sat 4 Aug 12

Last comment is not correct. It was shown in court and through surveillance that the mother was chief in that house.

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theprouty says...
10:16am Sun 5 Aug 12

I am no fan of the Police, but I must say when they questioned them first of all they knew they had done it and they kept digging until they got all the information they needed. Well done to the police,

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smallscousefox says...
12:26am Mon 6 Aug 12

immy007 wrote:
smallscousefox wrote:
Bloody good!
At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/
To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist.
r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x
just like to say its notting to do with religion.
I suggest you read up on the facts of this case!...it had everything to do with religion ;o/
A religion that deemed it more acceptable to murder their own child rather than live with the 'shame' that her insistence on living a Westernised life brought on them....

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chumhill says...
8:50am Mon 6 Aug 12

smallscousefox wrote:
immy007 wrote:
smallscousefox wrote: Bloody good! At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/ To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist. r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x
just like to say its notting to do with religion.
I suggest you read up on the facts of this case!...it had everything to do with religion ;o/ A religion that deemed it more acceptable to murder their own child rather than live with the 'shame' that her insistence on living a Westernised life brought on them....
Most bad things that happen in this world are caused by a religion or greed for money.

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miss_s3k says...
12:00pm Sat 11 Aug 12

This has nothing to do with religion...there are many many differences between culture and religion...everythin
g in the Pakistani culture does not equal the Islamic religion.
If you want to know what the religion says about this kind of case, I suggest you read the whole Quran with meaning. Just by calling yourself a Muslim does not mean every action of yours is in accordance with the religion.

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Cleopatra says...
9:56pm Sat 11 Aug 12

smallscousefox wrote:
immy007 wrote:
smallscousefox wrote: Bloody good! At last,a judge with a bit of sense when it comes to fitting the sentence to the crime.With a bit of luck they'll both die behind bars ;o/ To put religion...ANY religion before your own precious child is anathema to me and sickening crimes like this make me proud to be an Atheist. r.i.p.Shafilea,they didn't deserve you x
just like to say its notting to do with religion.
I suggest you read up on the facts of this case!...it had everything to do with religion ;o/ A religion that deemed it more acceptable to murder their own child rather than live with the 'shame' that her insistence on living a Westernised life brought on them....
Smallscousefox, you are aware of the saying 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? It appears that you have very little knowledge of the world of Islam and are basing your observations on snippets of the misinformation that is often bandied about, I doubt you have ever touched the Qur'an let alone read it.
I believe that I read that the Ahmeds are muslim but they did not act in accordance with the teachings of the Qur'an in anyway when they murdered their beautiful daughter.
First of all Allah said that nobody but he shall take a life (although he did say it was right to kill another to save himself if there is an immediate danger that the other person is about to kill him but if that other person ends his intent to kill him then he must turn away from him and not kill him). Nowhere in the Qur'an does it advocate forced marriage and nowhere does it say that parents should kill their offspring if they refuse to marry whoever they choose for them. So called honour killings are a cultural issue not a religious issue.

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