Posted on 07/19/2007 3:00:33 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Two-hour rape and torture of honour killing girl murdered by her family
Last updated at 22:25pm on 19th July 2007
Horrific details have been revealed 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.
He and the Mahmod brothers are due to be sentenced tomorrow.
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.
Your question contains an answer. You are thinking of formerly civilized nations. Europe has rejected its own civilization. It is no longer Christian. It is actually ashamed of its history. Immigrants are merely walking into that vacuum.
I listened to that earlier today. It was well worth listening to. Too bad that type of discussion didn’t happen on Fox News.
Wait, aren't Klingons and Muslims the same thing?
Thats Highly insulting to klingons....and these bastards should be broken on the wheel
Nail these bastards to the road during the Running of the Bulls.
They are assimilating. Well, they're not assimilating into our society, but they are assimilating sheeple into theirs. Does that count?
Sort of like trying to sort communists into good, peaceful communists.. and threatening extremist communists.
More religion of peace....
If I hear one more moral relavatist idiot try to claim that Islam is equivalent to any other prominent world religion, I’m going to punch them squarely in the face.
Islam is the world religion of Satan, pure and simple.
These guys should be staked out in a hog lot and smeared with peanut butter...then let the hogs loose. Film them being eaten alive and send the tape to All-Jeersatya.
“Muslims did this”
Yes the muslims have killed thousands - but the Russians killed 100 million in the last century.
And they probably killed the most at Beslan. Only the Russian KGB would order a tank to fire 7 rounds at a school full of children - and then cover it up.
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=409&issue_id=3539&article_id=2370524
I think this photo was staged as no person in a hostage situation would remove a necklace and ensnare their hand rendering it useless for an escape.
The grit under the nails does in fact show that this person was clawing thru something and if the necklace were there, the cross would have pulled off - instead of being in its pristine and shiny state.
PS - for a religious person, you are awfully free with the ad hominems. And your effort to hijack this post with the best images the kgb has to offer is an obvious bit of disinformation.
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”.
Laughing? this Religion,justifies Rape? and Murder?, and Degredation?...Her father approved of this?
These are the Moderate ones...........
The "blending" of nationalities is 'one way'
"European"... as in western.
We don't see Indian, Peruvian, or Çhinese courts going through this "guilt trip" of tax payer money.
The bastards (yes Mr.Blair, you're one of them..though not the only one by any means) who got us into this state deserve shooting or at the very least deporting.
OUTRIGHT lies...you get your kicks spreading lies doncha.
Russians are the people who suffered most under the Bolsheviks who were of all ethnic and religious backgrounds. 10,000 Russian Orthodox priests alone in the first ten years after 1917.
You know that (making you a devious agendized liar) OR you are a total fool.
I like giving people the benefit of the doubt so I pick the latter option.
See post 96...in addition I suggest that you actually read the KGB files and find out exactly who the top leaders were amongst the Bolsheviks. Russians were probably the feswest of those who did the bloodshed.
“OUTRIGHT lies”
How dare you call me a liar.
The Kremlin which is in Russia has been the agent of murder for over 100 million in the last century and this includes your beloved Tsars and Tsarinas who where depraved despots who dabbled in idolitry, satanism, paganism, and even bestiality.
You and your kind make me puke and you are not fooling anyone here with your Holy Russia BS.
How dare you call me a liar.
Simply you are one. But as I already said, you may be just ignorant..which partly excuses the lies.
Most of those 100 million murdered were Russians! Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians and Armenians and anyone else who did not kow tow to the Communist criminals.
The Bolsheviks are distinguished by the fact that SO FEW were ethnic Russians!
As you will see most of the Bolshevik Marxists were not ethnic Russian.
List of perps:
Your comments about Saints Nicholas and Alexandra and their children are beneath contempt and vile smacking of pathological/personal issues.
You need to deal with it.
Great question. And apparently not only England but we also want more and more of these types in our country.
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