Shafilea Ahmed killing letters are fiction, court hears

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Shafilea Ahmed killing letters are fiction, court hears

June 18th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Mevish Ahmed, 21, giving evidence in support of her parents, described the papers as ‘free writing’ and ‘fiction’
Shafilea’s parents deny murdering their 17-year-old daughter in 2003
Her other sister Alesha claims she saw her parents suffocate her sister

By
Emily Allen

PUBLISHED:

10:46 EST, 18 June 2012

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UPDATED:

11:08 EST, 18 June 2012

Shafilea Ahmed

Shafilea Ahmed’s decomposed remains were discovered in Cumbria in 2004 and her parents are now on trial for her murder

A sister of Shafilea Ahmed gave a friend letters in which she wrote about ‘how her parents killed the teenager’ but denied they were anything but a work of fiction, a court heard today.

Mevish Ahmed, 21, was giving evidence in support of her parents Ahmed, 52, and Farzana, 49, who deny murdering 17-year-old Shafilea at the family home in Warrington, Cheshire, in September 2003.

She was cross-examined by Andrew Edis QC, for the prosecution, about a series of ‘letters’ she had written which seemed to claim her parents had killed her sister.

However, Miss Ahmed, who was 12 when her sister disappeared, described the papers as ‘free writing’ and fiction.

They were written by Miss Ahmed in 2008 and given to her friend, Shahin Munir, Chester Crown Court heard.

The full content of the letters hasn’t been disclosed.

Mr Edis asked Miss Ahmed if she was aware that Ms Munir had given the police ‘the letters you wrote to her about your sister’s death’.

The witness said: ‘They are not letters about my sister’s death, they are free writing.

‘I write fiction, I write it quite a lot. Me and Alesha used to write fictional things and make-believe.

‘It’s not necessarily associated with ourselves.’

Mr Edis went on: ‘These pieces of paper were about your parents killing Shafilea.’

Miss Ahmed replied: ‘Like I said, fiction writing.’

Earlier in the trial Shafilea’s other sister, Alesha Ahmed, told the jury her parents pushed Shafilea on to the settee in their house and she heard her mother say ‘Just finish it here’ in Urdu as they forced a plastic bag into the teenager’s mouth and suffocated her in front of their other children.

On trial: Iftikhar Ahmed, left, and Farzana Ahmed, right, are said to have killed their 17-year-old daughter because she refused to obey them

The couple murdered their ‘Westernised’ daughter because they believed her conduct was bringing shame on the family, the prosecution say.

The has trial heard her desire to wear the same clothes as her friends and have boyfriends brought her into conflict with her parents’ traditional Pakistani culture and their ‘concept of shame and honour’.

Shafilea was reported missing a week after the alleged attack after a former teacher heard rumours that Alesha had told schoolfriends their father had killed her.

Her decomposed remains were discovered in Cumbria in February 2004 but it was not until 2010 that Alesha provided police with the ‘final piece of the puzzle’ about her death, the trial has heard.

The trial continues.

Family home: The Ahmeds lived in this house in Warrington, Cheshire