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Tuesday, May 25, 1999 Published at 17:23 GMT 18:23 UK

Life for killing pregnant daughter


Life for killing pregnant daughter
A mother has been sentenced to life, along with her son, for killing her pregnant daughter.

Shakeela Naz and her son Shazad Ali were found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday of the murder of 19-year-old Rukhsana.

The court heard the pair believed Rukhsana Naz had brought shame on the family by having an extra-marital affair and becoming pregnant.

'Horrific offence'

Her younger brother, Iftikar, was cleared of murder.

The judge, Mr Justice Tucker, said: "The jury have convicted you both of murder.

"It was a particularly horrific offence, involving as it did the death of a young pregnant woman, who was already the mother of two children, at the hands of her own family."

Rukhsana had married at the age of 16 to a man in Pakistan.

She was strangled to death with an electric flex by her brother at their family home in Derby last March after becoming pregnant by her lover.


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