[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Saman Abbas, 18, was living near Bologna when she disappeared in May 2021
- She had rejected her family's demands to marry a cousin, with a court ruling that her parents had ordered her killing and that she was strangled by her uncle
The parents, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, were sentenced to life in prison, while her uncle, Danish Hasnain, was handed a 14-year prison term after accepting a plea bargain. Two cousins were found not guilty and were released from jail.
Abbas' father, who was extradited from Pakistan in August, professed his innocence during a tearful statement to the court before deliberations.
Taking out the Paki trash
His wife, Shaheen, was tried in absentia and is believed to still be in Pakistan.
The trial was the most high-profile of several criminal investigations in Italy in recent years dealing with the slaying or mistreatment of immigrant women or girls who rebelled against family insistence that they marry someone chosen for them.
An autopsy revealed the young woman had a broken neck bone, possibly caused by strangulation, in a case that has shocked the country.