Murder of Shafilea Ahmed

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Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and Urdu: شفیلیہ افتخار احمد; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17 due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage. Seven years later, Ahmed's sister told police that she had been murdered by her parents, who were imprisoned for a minimum of 25 years in August 2012. The possibility of other individuals having helped her parents to dispose of their daughter's body has been raised; after the parents' trial, the chief executive of the Bradford Council for Mosques encouraged anybody with information about the case to come forward with information to assist the police.

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