Honor Killing Family Guilty in Denmark
Charles Johnson
Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 11:45 am PDT • Views: 383
Nine members of a Pakistani family in Denmark have been convicted in the “honor” killing of Ghazala Khan. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
The High Court of Eastern Denmark delivered a ‘guilty’ verdict on Tuesday to all nine defendants in the most far-reaching honour killing ever tried in Europe.
The verdict is considered a landmark finding, since not only the brother who fired the gun that killed Ghazala Khan was found guilty.
The court also found Ghazala’s father and seven others guilty of conspiring to murder the young Pakistani woman and her husband for disobeying orders not to marry last September. Jurors determined that a group of uncles, aunts and acquaintances apparently plotted to lure the couple to the train station of Slagelse in western Zealand, where the brother waited with a loaded gun.
Ghazala suffered fatal wounds while her newly wed husband narrowly escaped death.
Previously at LGF:
Honor Killing Family Goes on Trial in Denmark.
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