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Shafilea Ahmed murder trial: Parents guilty of killing
Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed were both found guilty after two days of deliberations
The parents of Shafilea Ahmed have been found guilty of her murder.
The 17-year-old went missing from her home in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2003 and was found dead on the banks of the River Kent in Cumbria six months later.
Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, had denied her murder but the jury at Chester Crown Court returned guilty verdicts against them both.
The couple suffocated Shafilea with a plastic bag in an apparent "honour killing".
The prosecution claimed she was killed by her parents because she brought shame on the family.
Shafilea's sister Alesha, now 23, told the jury her parents pushed her on to the settee in their house and she heard her mother say "just finish it here".
Shafilea Ahmed went missing in September 2003 and her body was found in Cumbria six months later
The parents then forced a plastic bag into the teenager's mouth and killed her in front of their other children.
Taxi driver Mr Ahmed had claimed Shafilea ran away from home in the middle of the night and he never saw her again.
During the three-month trial Mrs Ahmed changed her account, claiming she saw her husband beat Shafilea on the night of the murder.
She also claimed he had threatened to do the same to her and their other children if she ever asked him what happened to Shafilea.
As the verdicts were delivered by the jury after two days of deliberations, Iftikhar Ahmed stood impassively. Mrs Ahmed wiped tears from her eyes with a tissue.
Their children Junyad, Mevish and the youngest, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all broke down in tears.
Shafilea went missing on 11 September 2003 and was reported missing by a teacher a week later.
Her body was discovered by workmen in February 2004 and she was identified by her dental records and jewellery.
Two post-mortem examinations failed to determine how she died but a verdict of unlawful killing was recorded at her inquest in 2008.
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