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 sex 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 sexual
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.
Culled from UK Daily Mail
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