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Accused: Iftikhar Ahmed, left, and Farzana Ahmed, right, are said to have killed their 17-year-old daughter because she refused to obey them

 

 

 

 

 

 

A teenage girl was murdered by her parents because she had become 'Westernised' and no longer obeyed their strict rules, a jury heard today.


The parents of Shafilea Ahmed are accused of attacking her in a killing allegedly witnessed by their other daughter, before dumping her body by a river.


The decomposed remains 17-year-old Shafilea were discovered in Cumbria in February 2004.

Today, as her parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed went on trial for murder, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told Chester Crown Court they had killed her because she refused to obey them.

'Murdered' Shafilea Ahmed