By Andrew Norfolk
During the final, terrifying seconds of his life Mian Shahid Mehmood would have needed no one to tell him that he was a long way from home.
The 29-year-old Pakistani man had hoped to build an exciting new life when he moved to Britain in 2006 to join the woman he had married secretly after they met and fell in love.
Twelve months later he was driven to a narrow and isolated moorland lane in the hills above Halifax, West Yorkshire. As Mr Mehmood knelt in the darkness, the lights of the textile town sparkling in the valley below, he was shot twice in the back and then left to die.
His killers were three thugs, hired for murder by a man for whom Mr Mehmood's marriage represented an affront to family dignity: his wife's elder brother, Arza Khan. Read more ...
During the final, terrifying seconds of his life Mian Shahid Mehmood would have needed no one to tell him that he was a long way from home.
The 29-year-old Pakistani man had hoped to build an exciting new life when he moved to Britain in 2006 to join the woman he had married secretly after they met and fell in love.
Twelve months later he was driven to a narrow and isolated moorland lane in the hills above Halifax, West Yorkshire. As Mr Mehmood knelt in the darkness, the lights of the textile town sparkling in the valley below, he was shot twice in the back and then left to die.
His killers were three thugs, hired for murder by a man for whom Mr Mehmood's marriage represented an affront to family dignity: his wife's elder brother, Arza Khan. Read more ...
Source: The Times
Posts
