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Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage.
Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl, was discovered dead in her family's residence in Woking, Surrey, England, on 10 August 2023. [1] [2] [3] She had suffered numerous and severe injuries over an extended period. Three suspects fled to Pakistan [4] [3] and were arrested on their return to the United Kingdom. They were charged with murder and ...
From 2003, Andrew Norfolk of The Times wrote a number of articles about group-based child sexual exploitation of girls by British-Pakistani men, especially in northern England and the Midlands. [43] In 2012, Rotherham Council applied to the High Court of Justice for an injunction to stop Norfolk publishing an unredacted version of a serious ...
British Pakistanis (Urdu: برطانیہ میں مقیم پاکستانی; also known as Pakistani British people or Pakistani Britons) are Britons or residents of the United Kingdom whose ancestral roots lie in Pakistan. This includes people born in the UK who are of Pakistani descent, Pakistani-born people who have migrated to the UK and ...
Forty-seven girls were identified as victims of child sexual exploitation during the initial police investigation. [2] [3] [4] The men were British Pakistanis, which led to discussion on whether the failure to investigate them was linked to the authorities' fear of being accused of racial prejudice. [5] The girls were mainly White British. [5]
Mohammad Zahoor – Ukraine-based British-Pakistani businessman and philanthropist. Cash Haleem – United Kingdom British-Anglo-Pakistani businessman. [46] Akmal Shaikh – originally the owner of the taxi company "teksi", he was later sentenced to death by China for carrying 4kg of heroin. Munir Hussain – founder of Pepe’s Piri Piri. [47]
This case occurred after other incidents in Rochdale, Preston and Rotherham, where Asian gangs, mostly British Pakistani men, had been convicted of child grooming and rape. [3] [7] At the time of the Derby case, 50 out of the 56 men convicted in English courts of on-street grooming of girls were from the British Pakistani community. [8]
The British Labour politician Sarah Champion claimed regarding media news about this and previous trials, that there is a need to "acknowledge" that in all of the towns where similar cases have occurred "the majority of the perpetrators have been British Pakistani". She said: "We have got now, hundreds of Pakistani men who have been convicted ...