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| Muslim jailed for "honour killing" his daughter -London |
| 2003-09-29 |
| A Muslim immigrant has been jailed for life by a court for slitting his daughter’s throat in an "honour killing" after she embraced Western culture and began dating a Christian. Speaking to reporters after the trial, police detective inspector Brent Hyatt said honour killings involving immigrants to Britain were on the increase. "We have identified a number of other cases of so-called honour killings," he said |
| Posted by:TS |
| #6 Tried to kill himself by jumping from a third floor balcony - huh? Apart from being a murderer - he's an incompetant asshole as well. |
| Posted by: John B 2003-9-29 6:22:25 PM |
| #5 Heshu wrote: "Bye Dad, sorry I was so much trouble. Me and you will probably never understand each other, but I'm sorry I wasn't what you wanted, but there's some things you can't change. Hey, for an older man you have a good strong punch and kick. I hope you enjoyed testing your strength on me, it was fun being on the receiving end. Well done." Hope dad gets the same brutal treatment from his bunkmate. |
| Posted by: Superhose 2003-9-29 2:57:13 PM |
| #4 Lovely--an immigrant doesn't want his daughter to become westernized so he kills her. If he didn't want to adopt the ways of his new country, he should have kept his ass in the old country. I'm sick of idiots like this thinking they can go where they want and expect the people there to adapt to them rather than adapting to their new surroundings. Yes, that includes the "Ugly American" tourist as well. I'm not anti-immigrant; I'm anti-idiot. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-9-29 1:18:17 PM |
| #3 More, courtesy of the BBC: The Old Bailey heard Abdalla Yones, 48, murdered 16-year-old Heshu at their home ... because he feared she was becoming westernised. He pleaded for the court to pass the death sentence on him for his "appalling" crime after he tried to take his own life. Heshu, who was described as popular and fun-loving, planned to run away from home after starting a relationship with an 18-year-old Lebanese teacher. In a letter to her parents, apparently showing she planned to run away, Heshu wrote: "Bye Dad, sorry I was so much trouble. Me and you will probably never understand each other, but I'm sorry I wasn't what you wanted, but there's some things you can't change. Hey, for an older man you have a good strong punch and kick. I hope you enjoyed testing your strength on me, it was fun being on the receiving end. Well done." The court heard that after repeatedly stabbing his daughter and slitting her throat, he cut his own throat and jumped from a third floor balcony. Scotland Yard described it as a "brutal honour killing" - a reference to the practice of women being killed by male relatives to redeem the family name. Detective Inspector Brent Hyatt said: "There was nothing, nothing at all 'honourable' about her murder. After hacking his daughter to death, Mr Yones has attempted every defence, from psychiatric, and diminished responsibility to extreme provocation, in order to save his own skin." He added that Yones first claimed al-Qaeda members had broken into the flat, murdered Heshu and then attacked him. He only admitted murdering her last Monday. Yones's counsel, Icah Peart QC, said his client wanted to be sentenced to death. Judge Neil Denison said Yones had tried to commit suicide twice but told him he would pass the only sentence he could for murder - life imprisonment. He added: "This is, on any view, a tragic story arising out of irreconcilable cultural differences between traditional Kurdish values and the values of western society." Really? I'd call it plain old murder. Murder inspired by bigotry is still spelt M U R D E R. And the domestic abuse beforehand - a tragic result of "irreconcilable cultural differences"? If he'd roughed up and slit the throat of the white-skinned protestant 16 year old next door, that would be some kind of romantic tragedy, too? But Scotland Yard warned the sentence should be a warning to those who condone or stay silent about the mistreatment of women in their communities. Commander Andy Baker added: "Violence in the name of culture will not be tolerated. Murder in the name of honour will be punished by the severest penalties available in law." Scotland Yard believe there were 12 'honour killings' in the UK last year and said they were not restricted to Muslims, but also occurred in Sikh and Christian families. A specialist police unit is researching the practice but police say only a handful of people believed 'honour killings' were an appropriate cultural response. Mr Baker said people who had tried to protect Yones could now be investigated on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. "We are completely satisfied that some members of the community, or his friends, tried to assist him in that cover-up," he said. "It's not about one person committing the murder, it's about the few that acknowledge it and support it and are involved in it." Yones was a political refugee who fled Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq 10 years ago. Sounds as though the police have the right attitude. But the spineless moralizers who make up the judiciry once again make themselves sound like a bunch of, well, spineless moralizers. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-9-29 12:34:00 PM |
| #2 Another fine example of tolerance by the religon of peace. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2003-9-29 11:08:53 AM |
| #1 This is what happens when immigrants are not coached in the ways of their new home, something that really needs to be done. It's almost comical that when Westerners (espepcially Americans, it seems) go to some country with customs and taboos that would normally be considered odd or unusual and violate them, the result is usually a mountain of criticism for the Westerner. When someone from Hellholistan takes up residence in our country and violates a custom or a taboo, the media seems to treat it as something that's not all that big a deal. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-29 11:02:42 AM |