 COPENHAGEN: Nine Pakistanis living in Denmark went on trial on Monday accused of participating in the so-called honour killing of an 18-year-old woman who had married without parental consent.
| Oh, horrors! Oh, hold me, Mahmoud! |
Ghazala KhanÂ’s brother shot her dead by firing two bullets into her heart in September 2005, outside Slagelse train station, west of Copenhagen. The prosecution has qualified the murder as an honour killing, the ninth to have taken place in Denmark over the last decade.
| I'd heard Pakistan's exports were up. |
The victimÂ’s husband, whom she had secretly wed, was seriously injured in the attack thought to have been carried out in the belief that her marriage had tarnished the familyÂ’s honour.
| Had they left her alone, they could have just mentioned the 11-year-old Brit slut-babymom and held their heads high. But being Paks, they went for the blood. |
Six members of the murdered 18-year-oldÂ’s family, including her father and three family friends, were charged with murder and attempted murder. All the accused pleaded not guilty and the victimÂ’s brother, 29, told the court that her death had been accidental, claiming he had had no intention of killing his sister.
| "Yeah. Who'da thought a coupla slugs through the heart would hurt her?" |
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