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"Honour killing" father gets 20 years

uk.reuters.com — The father of a Kurdish woman tortured, raped and murdered in a "barbaric and callous" honour killing was jailed for at least 20 years on Friday. Banaz Mahmod's father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and her uncle Ari Mahmod, 51, who received a 23-year minimum sentence, were found guilty of murder last month.

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  • kilooneniner, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Twenty years isn't enough.
  • nevergrowup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I agree. Also, how is raping your own daughter restore honor to your family? What a bunch of animals.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Too bad there's no Shari'ah law in Britain; Otherwise, he would've been beheaded in public. Him and all the ones who joined in this unspeakable horror.

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