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Pages in category "Honour killing in the United Kingdom" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The killing of Surjit Athwal was planned in the UK and done in India; Murder of Tulay Goren; Murder of Heshu Yones; So-called honour killings of people with Kurdish ethnic heritage: Pela Atroshi (Iraqi Kurdistan) Fadime Şahindal (Sweden) Hatun Sürücü (Germany) So-called honour killings of other people with Iraqi national heritage:
Heshu's case was the first in the United Kingdom to be legally recognised and prosecuted as an honour killing; [4] [5] it led to the creation of a specialist task force [6] [7] in honour-based violence and, subsequently, to the reviewing of more than 100 previous cases of murder and suicide for any indication that "honour" was a factor. [8] [9]
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing [1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the ...
Expert in "honour" crimes, Professor Yakin Ertürk, gave evidence in what was the first use of expert witnesses in a case of this kind in the United Kingdom. [ 3 ] Mehmet Goren was found guilty of murder on 17 December 2009 and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum tariff of 22 years.
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Rania Alayed was a 25-year-old mother-of-three murdered by her husband in June 2013, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Chief Detective Inspector Bill Reade described this as an honour killing, [1] and the prosecutors stated she was murdered for trying to achieve independence from her husband and undergoing westernisation. [2]
Expert in honour based violence Caroline Goode QPM is a British retired police detective, who served for 33 years in the Metropolitan Police in London and in Counter Terrorism Command. She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 2012 New Year Honours [ 1 ] for leading the investigation into the murder of Banaz Mahmod .