Murder victim "honor" killing: Banaz Mahmood
The details of Banaz's murder are vile. Banaz went to the police, four times, in desperate fear for her life. The police are guilty of murder and ought to stand trial for life sentences particularly police officer Angela Cornes, who dismissed the murder victim's account as fantasy and wanted to charge her with criminal damage because she broke a window when she smashed her way out of her grandmother's house to escape her family's first attempt at killing her.
Attitudes like this are prevalent in the US as well. Amina and Sarah Said's father has not been apprehended. And when their violent plight came to the attention of the judicial system years earlier, the judge shrugged it off - despite allegations of rape by the father of the then 8 and 9 year old sisters. Read more ...
Source: Atlas