Posted on 07/21/2007 1:44:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
The father and uncle of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod were jailed for life today for her murder.
Mahmod Mahmod, 54, was told he will have to serve a minimumn of 20 years while his brother Ari, 51, will have to serve at least 23 years.
Horrific details were revealed yesterday of the last hours of the young Kurdish woman murdered by her family for falling in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was brutally raped and stamped on during a two-hour ordeal before being garotted.
One of her killers, the Old Bailey was told, was 30-year-old Mohamad Hama, who had been recruited by Banaz's father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and his brother Ari, 51.
Both were found guilty of murder last month.
The shocking details of the killing came to light when Hama was secretly recorded talking to a friend in prison.
He admitted "slapping" and "f***ing" Banaz, who was subjected to degrading sex acts.
Hama and his friend were heard laughing as he described how she was killed in her family home in Mitcham, South London, with Ari Mahmod "supervising".
The murderers - two other suspects have fled to Iraq - had been told Banaz would be on her own.
Hama is recorded as saying: "Ari (the uncle) said there is no one there. There was someone there, Biza (her sister). The bastard lied to us."
He said of the murder: "I swear to God it took him more than two hours. Her soul and her life would not leave."
Banaz was garotted for five minutes, said Hama, but it took another half an hour for her to die.
Hama said: "The wire was thick and the soul would not just leave like that.
"We could not remove it. All in all it took five minutes (to strangle) her.
"I was kicking and stamping on her neck to get the soul out. I saw her stark naked, without wearing pants or underwear."
Banaz's body was packed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham, where it was found three months later.
The trial of the two brothers heard that Banaz was killed because she had walked out of an unhappy arranged marriage - which she was forced into at just 17 - and fallen in love with Iranian Kurd Rahmat Suleimani, 28.
The pair had been secretly seeing each other, but her family were furious when they found out because Mr Suleimani was not "immediate family" or a strict Muslim.
Terrified, Banaz wrote to police naming people she said were planning to kill her.
Hama was on the list, the court heard. Two other men named by Banaz have fled the country.
Transcripts of the prison recording were read out at a pre- sentence hearing for Hama, of South Norwood, South London, who pleaded guilty to murdering Banaz at an earlier hearing.
Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, sat to assess the extent of Hama's involvement.
Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, told the court that Hama, who sat impassively in the dock, took a "leading part" in raping and killing Banaz in January last year then dumping her body.
He was said to have been recorded expressing concern because his fingerprints and DNA were on her body.
He was also concerned that a leaking pipe at the house where she was buried was sending water through the suitcase, possibly uncovering it.
During another taped conversation, Hama joked about Banaz's hair and elbow sticking out of the suitcase and how a police patrol drove past while he was helping to drag it to a car.
He said: "The road was crowded. The police came past. People were passing by - and we were dragging the bag.
"I almost ran away. Mr Ari (was dragging it) and we were around by each side of him.
"You know what it was, sticking out, her elbow, her hair was falling out so much. That was a stupid thing, a silly thing."
Defence barrister Malcolm Swift QC claimed Hama became involved only after Banaz's body had been put in the suitcase.
He told the court there was no direct evidence that Hama was present at the time of the murder - he took part in the planning but "had realised the error of becoming directly involved in the killing".
Hama's car was outside his home throughout the morning of the killing and his mobile phone could not be linked to the murder scene.
Mr Swift said Hama got his information on the killing from others, including Ari Mahmod.
The death penalty exists for a reason.
An afterthought...These men were acting under the traditions they grew up in. Part of their acceptance into another society is the acceptance of new traditions and laws and a departure from many of their old ones. Their actions show that they never had any intention of assimilating into their new country.
I can’t fathom the fact that these perverted animals have a chance of someday walking free. It’s absolutely awful that there is no death penalty in Great Britain but, at least in this case, a life sentence should actually mean you never get out.
I notice this a lot. Many in the West seem to want to blame these immigrants in situations like this when we are many times equally at fault. And before you flame away - please hear me out.
The tenets of diversity and multiculturalism - the destructive ideology that the West has adopted in the last few years - encourages these reprobates like this to retain their regressive cultural and religious beliefs in lieu of assimilation and integration.
In many ways it is like a bell curve that drags down the entire nation as a whole and yet the Europeans and well us the Americans now simply lack the courage to stand up and say to these subhumans that their uncivilized cultural and religious beliefs and customs are not welcome in Western civilization.
pffft ... they would walk free in their own country - so why not in the UK ? -
The tenets of diversity and multiculturalism - the destructive ideology that the West has adopted in the last few years - encourages these reprobates like this to retain their regressive cultural and religious beliefs in lieu of assimilation and integration.
You expanded on my original statement. I see nothing wrong with what you present and am in agreement.
...lack the courage to stand up and say to these subhumans that their uncivilized cultural and religious beliefs and customs are not welcome in Western civilization.
I would say that it's more a lack of leadership rather than courage amongst the Americans.
Does anyone still question how evil these slime are?
You said it. They need to understand that what works for them "back there" doesn't fly in civilized society. In fact, they got a lot of damn nerve bringing that kind of garbage into our part of the world, like a cat bringing a dead rat into your house.
Nor do I get the juxtaposition of raping her in the process of this so-called "honor killing." What the hell kind of mentality is that? Ignorant vermin.
I don't care much for diversity and multiculturalism. Buzz words of creeping Socialism.
” Ignorant vermin.”
Wayfrin?
I’ll guess these pigs never thought that much about the punishment. From what I understand, many of these backward Islamist countries give these “honor” murderers a slap on the wrist.
They probably are stunned that the law is holding them responsible. Shame they didn’t do it here, in Texas or such. I hear in China they shoot you in the head within a few days, and make your family buy the bullet. Sounds good to me.
Isn’t multiculturalism wonderful.
The British Raj in India had the right idea with the method they used to end the practice of suttee.
It’s time for England to bring back the old “Hang, Draw and Quarter” as the method of execution for these cases.
God has a special place for them.
Don’t forget to give them a pig blood transfusion first.
Thanks for posting this article.
Islam isn't limited by ethnicity. Muslims come in many shapes colors and sizes. Islam destroys their minds and condemns their souls without prejudice.
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