'We must ask if the government have the right priorities to tackle this epidemic of violence.'
"We must ask if the government have the right priorities to tackle this epidemic of violence."Getty / Labour
It was only during this period that a new set of officers took on the case, tested the t-shirt and found she was telling the truth.Banaz Mahmod was tragically murdered in 2006 in a so-called “honour killing”. She was 20 years old. But what links these cases is that those impacted have relied on the Human Rights Act to get some measure of justice for institutional failures that let down these women.As a result of this case, the force changed its internal processes to ensure that any decision by an investigating officer to discontinue a rape investigation or release a suspect with no further action has to be agreed by an independent panel chaired by an assistant chief constable.
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