A father who ordered the killing of his daughter after finding out she had a boyfriend has been jailed for life.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was raped and tortured before being strangled and buried in a suitcase in Birmingham.
Her Iraqi Kurd father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, of Mitcham, south London, will serve at least 20 years.
Her uncle Ari Mahmod, 50, who helped arrange the murder, and killer Mohammed Hama, 30, got life terms and will serve at least 23 and 17 years respectively.
Her death had been ordered after her affair with fellow Kurd, Rahmat Sulemani, was discovered.
The Common Serjeant of London, Judge Brian Barker, said: "This was a barbaric and callous crime.
"You are hard and unswerving men to whom apparently the respect from the community is more important that your own flesh and blood."
They are indeed. This morning, in advance of sentencing the Daily Mirror reported that
A MURDERER kicked and stamped on an honour killing victim to "make her soul leave her body".
Mohamad Hama told how tragic Banaz Mahmod, 20, was also raped, strangled, stuffed in a suitcase then dumped in a shallow grave.
The gruesome details of how Iraqi Banaz met her death because she fell for a Kurdish boy were revealed in a secretly taped prison confession.
Hama, 30, said: "I was kicking or stamping on her neck to get her soul out. She was stark naked. The soul wouldn't just leave like that. The cord was round her neck."
Banaz's ordeal was revealed during a presentence hearing at the Old Bailey yesterday.
