Brit Muslim ‘honour killing’ victim ‘was set up by mum and sister’ – as dad and ex-husband appear in court in chains
Police say father stood guard while husband raped her and afterwards BOTH men strangled her after she married again
THE FATHER and ex-husband of a 'murdered' British muslim woman appeared at courts in chains today as it's claimed she was lured to her death in a suspected honour killing.
Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, was 'tricked' into travelling to Pakistan by her mother and sister who lied by saying her father was dying, new court papers reportedly reveal.
But a final report on her death shows that Samia's mother Imtiaz and sister Madiha are accused of "emotionally blackmailing" her to visit Pakistan.
They are now wanted on suspicion of 'abetting her murder'.
Defence lawyer Mohammad Arif says the trial will begin next week.
The two accused men appeared before a judge earlier today.
The woman's family initially claimed she had died of natural causes.
But police now say her father stood guard while Shakeel raped her and afterwards BOTH men strangled her.
However, the woman's father strongly denied the allegations.
"This is a fake police story and nothing else. I loved my daughter too much and all allegations against me and my son-in-law are a pack of lies," Mohammad Shahid told The Associated Press outside court.
Both he and Shakeel were handcuffed in chains and had their faces covered with cloths.
Two weeks ago it was reported Shakeel is believed to have admitted he killed Samia before he appeared in court.
Geo News reported that he told police in a recorded interview: "I strangled Samia to death using a dupatta (a long scarf)."
Samia, of Bradford, was visiting family in the Punjab village of Pandori last month when she died.
Investigators believe she was strangled and stabbed, but her family was initially told she died from a heart attack.
A second post-mortem later revealed she had been strangled.
Her second husband Syed Mukhtar Kazam, who lived with her in Dubai, believes she was murdered for marrying outside the family.
Relatives told him she died of a sudden heart attack or asthma attack after she was buried in a village graveyard.
Pakistan cops claimed a quick post-mortem was carried out and have found no visible injuries or signs of violence on her body.
But Mr Kazam, who married her at Leeds Town Hall in September 2014, says she was killed by her family because they refused to accept her marrying an ‘outsider’.
A full investigation into her death only began after Mr Kazam raised the alarm with friends in the UK.
Bradford MP Naz Shah demanded that Pakistani authorities exhume her body and commission an independent postmortem.
Local police chief Jehlum Mujahid Akbar admitted the death of Samia, from Bradford, was "not due to natural causes".
Regional Police Officer Wisal Fakhar Sultan Raja said: “The accused are arrested and after interrogations we hope to find out the truth.
“The post-mortem report that saliva was oozing out of her mouth and she had wound mark on her neck indicates she was suffocated to death.
“Since the wound mark is fresh and dated at the time of death there is little doubt she has been killed.”
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