Ari Mahmod News Today

The number of honour-based crimes happening in Britain has surged by more than 60 per cent in just two years, figures suggest. Honour-based offences are committed to protect the honour of the family.

EXCLUSIVE: Mohamad Hama, then 30, is serving life after being found guilty of murder as part of a gang of thugs who tortured, raped and strangled Banaz Mahmod, 20, in January 2006.

Payzee Mahmod was just 16 when she was coerced into marrying a big, balding man almost twice her age by her father Mahmod Babakir Mahmod, an asylum seeker from Kurdistan.

After Banaz Mahmod was killed by her father, uncle and three other men in 2006, it was her sister’s testimony that helped bring them to justice. Before the release of her memoir she tells of her rage at what happened and why she is still living in hiding

BEKHAL MAHMOD: Im glad I didnt have to witness the moment footage was played to the jury of my beautiful sister Banaz (pictured) pleading to an ambulance crew that my dad is trying to kill me.

Naza* is visiting her daughter’s grave in an unmarked section of a cemetery in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. She goes there in secret – the girl’s death has been shrouded in a veil of family shame, so much so that her grave is unmarked. The reason? “My beautiful girl was killed by her cousin when she refused to marry him,” Naza says. “Nothing happened to him. The police took his word that he was innocent. Then, because the elders said she had brought disgrace...