Muslim man, Asadullah
Khan, strangled his own 19-year-old daughter to death with his bare
hands after learning from police she had been caught shoplifting condoms
to have s*x with her forbidden boyfriend. He and his wife Shazia then
dressed the dead girl named Lareeb (left), a dental technician, in her
clothes, wheeled her in a wheelchair from their high-rise apartment to
the family car, drove to a secluded embankment in their home city of
Darmstadt in Germany, and tipped the corpse down it.
Khan, 51, with
tears streaming down his face, admitted the killing because in his eyes
she had brought ‘dishonour’ on the family with her love for a boy he
didn’t approve of. He and his wife were wed in an arranged marriage and
he wanted the same for her.
Khan and his wife, originally from
Pakistan, are on trial for murder at the State Court in Darmstadt.
Shazia, 41, described how she was a downtrodden woman, totally in the
thrall of her husband, and unable to save her daughter.
The court heard how the parents sent Lareeb’s sister Nida, 14, to a relative on the evening of the murder in January this year.
Nida gave evidence against both her parents, saying her mother was as strict as their father, often striking both of them.
The mother held out her arms to Nida when she appeared in court on Friday but Nida refused to acknowledge her.
Nida said: ‘My Mama was not suppressed, she could do what she wanted. She used to hit me with a stick.
‘We were never allowed to talk about her boyfriend. My father used to say my sister should be forcibly married in Pakistan.’
The court heard Nida is now in therapy and has nothing more to do with her parents.
Shazia said that on the night of the
murder Lareeb had quarelled again with her father and hit him. He later
crept into her room as she slept, knelt astride her and strangled her.
‘I couldn’t stop him,’ the mother said
in a statement read by her lawyer. ‘I have rheumatism and didn’t have
the strength to fight him off. I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t.
‘Lareeb stayed away from the home for
several nights in a row and stopped wearing the headscarf. One day we
received a letter from the police saying she had been caught trying to
steal condoms.
‘At this point it became clear that there was s*xual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.’
Killer Asadullah, who speaks no German, said he ‘loved’ his daughter.
The trial continues.
Source: UK Daily Mail
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