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Britain
UK reviewing 122 cases of missing/murdered 'Asian' women
2007-05-19
Honour crimes in London are on the increase, with police recording four a week since last summer. They believe an honour killing is being committed every two months in the capital, a CPS London conference heard. Across the country police are reviewing the disappearances and deaths of 122 young Asian women - 81 from London - over the past 10 years to establish whether they were killed for bringing shame on their families.

The CPS and police will also ask coroners throughout the country for details of cases where they suspect that Asian women committed suicide following intimidation or harassment. Metropolitan Police Commander Andy Baker, Head of Homicide Investigation, told the Honour Crimes Conference that the suicide rate among Asian women aged between 15 and 25 was three times the national average. For the 25 to 35 age group it was twice the average.

Delegates heard that most honour crimes in the UK involve South Asian families but cases have also featured Middle Eastern, West African, Turkish, Bosnian, Kosovan and Roma families.
In a keynote address, CPS London's Chief Crown Prosecutor Dru Sharpling said honour crimes were "disgraceful" and went beyond an issue of culture. She told the conference held in London in December: "If it is nothing but culture it gives the crime a legitimacy that it does not deserve or merit. "This is primarily a crime against women. Honour crimes are crimes of violence which contain wholesale human rights abuses." The criminal justice system counted as nothing unless it protected the people it served, she stressed. "Honour crimes are corrosive and the victim deserves protection, and the criminal law must be designed to do just that. "And if they are not protected; if they are kept away from the agencies that can help; if the issue is submerged in our society, then that seems to me to give a green light to the perpetrators." In a democratic society the existence of any group of individuals whom the law could not apparently touch was unacceptable, she added.
Delegates learned that each year, a specialist unit at the Foreign Office handles around 250 cases of British women forced into marriage, rescuing between 60 and 70.
Speakers at the conference included a woman who as a teenage schoolgirl ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage. Jasvinder Sanghera was 14 when her family showed her a photograph of a Sikh man they said she would marry. Abused emotionally and physically, she fled to Newcastle two weeks before the wedding. As a result her parents refused to speak to her, saying she was dead in their eyes. Seven years later her elder sister Robina committed suicide by setting herself alight after being trapped in an arranged marriage. Jasvinder, who said she still receives threats from relatives for bringing shame on them, now runs a refuge for Asian women in Derby, handling 40 calls a week.

Delegates learned that each year, a specialist unit at the Foreign Office handles around 250 cases of British women forced into marriage, rescuing between 60 and 70.
Posted by:Seafarious

#9  What a hellish mess you have there with these idiots operating their own "justice" operations inside your country completely separate from the established legal system

Word, Woozle!
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-19 23:45  

#8  we can play spot the christian

Sooner than that, A, we'll be playing "spot the Muslim". Fair game, eh?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-19 23:41  

#7  The suicides are being investigated because the young women are killing themselves before (or just after) they are forced to marry their first cousins from The Olde Countrie. Pakistani tribal lands are being established in Leeds and Dewsbury.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-05-19 12:12  

#6  Criminey - two comments.

First - it's simply debasing the language to have "honour" and "killing" appear in the same sentence. Orwell wrote essays on such tactics, and this is another surviving example screaming for editing - let's start with, oh, how about "murder" as a useful term.

Second - while we should consider Orwell, let's remember that omission is often as important as commission when it comes to abusing the language. R'burgers are long familiar with spotting the missing word in this article (and worse yet, it's not an article, it's a press release from the prosecutor's office - not even doublespeak twistedited by the usually malignant press). Hint - the missing word is not "Sikh", which is found toward the end as sort of a deceptive lure off to the side of the main bait.
Posted by: Elmomoter Poodle9731   2007-05-19 12:01  

#5  The CPS and police will also ask coroners throughout the country for details of cases where they suspect that Asian women committed suicide following intimidation or harassment.

Why is the story being muddled with issues of suicide? An honor killing is not a suicide.

You can't have a quasi-legal system within an established legal system. Make Sharia law illegal in Britain.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-05-19 09:46  

#4  "Totally agree, as a brit myself and one of the ones with brains who left the sinking ship, westminster abbey will be a mosque by 2010, and we can play spot the christian"

Or more likely, once Shari'a law becomes a reality in the U.K., shoot the Christian.
Posted by: Crurt Lumplump3873   2007-05-19 09:23  

#3  In spite of Islam's vicious misogyny, veiled cult hags are some of the most vocal supporters of their own oppression. I have even heard genitally mutilated hags, defend the practice.
Posted by: Sneaze   2007-05-19 08:44  

#2  Totally agree, as a brit myself and one of the ones with brains who left the sinking ship, westminster abbey will be a mosque by 2010, and we can play spot the christian
Posted by: A   2007-05-19 04:10  

#1  Asian women ? You mean Filipinos ? Japanese ? Vietnamese ? Chinese ?

You mean the Pak animals ? What a hellish mess you have there with these idiots operating their own "justice" operations inside your country completely separate from the established legal system of Britain. You should be quite proud. Not !
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970   2007-05-19 01:18  

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