Thursday, May 31, 2012

Shafilea Ahmed Murder: Sister Covered Up for Parents

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Shafilea Ahmed's sister told a jury that she lied to police investigating the teenager's disappearance because she was ''covering up for her parents''.

Alesha Ahmed was continuing her evidence at Chester Crown Court where parents, Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana, 49, deny murdering 17-year-old Shafilea.

The teenager vanished in September 2003 and her decomposed remains were discovered in Cumbria in February 2004.

It was not until last year that Ms Ahmed provided the ''final piece of the puzzle'' about Shafilea's death, the prosecution say, when she disclosed that she witnessed her parents killing Shafilea at the family home in Liverpool Road, Warrington.

Today, the jury were read passages of Ms Ahmed's first police interview following Shafilea's disappearance. » | Thursday, May 31, 2012