A 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