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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: I'm glad I didn't 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'.