'My best mate's parents suffocated her with a plastic bag because she wore a T-shirt'
The 17-year-old's parents were strict Muslims and hated Shafilea's westernised fashion choices, often calling her a 'prostitute' and a 'whore' and beating and starving her as a punishment.
It would take nine years before her sister Alesha, 30, finally broke rank to reveal her family’s horrific secret to the police.In a new documentary, When Missing Turns To Murder, journalists, investigators and friends of the Ahmed family reveal the harrowing extent of Shafilea’s abuse, and the wall of silence the police were met with from her family and the wider community following her death.
But Shafilea was terrified, and refused to go. So her father drugged her with sleeping tablets and forced her to get on the flight.When she woke up in Pakistan, Furious at her for refusing the marriage and for, in their opinion, bringing shame on the family, her parents decided to carry out an honour killing on their eldest daughter.After dumping Shafilea’s body in the river, her parents warned their other kids they'd kill them too if they ever spoke of the incident again.ftikhar and Farzana said they thought she'd run away.February 2004, a decomposed corpse was found in the River Kent near Sedgwick in Cumbria, washed up by recent flooding.
Alesha recalled how her sister’s eyes went wide, and she kicked her legs manically. As she lost control, she urinated on the sofa.
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