Banaz Mahmod’s Honor Killing: A Tragic Story | Real Stories True Crime Documentary

She was a very calm and quiet person. She loved to see people happy. She didn't like arguments. She just wanted a happy life. She wanted, you know, a family. Banas Mahmoud was murdered by her own family because they said she brought them dis

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. They killed her there just for being there. in love, sometimes I think why Bluff should be so hated. She told the police they were going to kill her. People follow me, they follow me and that was the main reason why she came to the police station, but they let her down. this is her

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told for the first time in her own words in the future or at any time if something happens to me if we kill them we are innocent then we open ours who killed when like she was in my life my life would be orange and yellow My name is Dia Han it took me four years to make this film.

I grew up in the same type of community and I wanted to tell her

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because I know the beautiful women as the face of her and the threat of violence. yes they cross the line, but this is also the story of Caroline Good, the detective who was determined to see Bernard get justice, says that the Banaszak family tried to erase her memory along with her life. I have never seen a photograph in that house. They have been ants, I guess they don't want to remember my opinion that they simply wanted to erase her from the earth and not leave a trace of her.

Caroline and I share the belief that we must remember to burn because many more women are suffering now just as she suffered Banas was Kurdish and born in northern Iraq when she was young the family came to Britain as refugees from Saddam Hussein she was alone a normal girl growing up in south London had the nickname Nazca it means softness like bellacor you know like a newborn lamb the sacrifice is her older sister she wears a veil not because she wants to but because she has to live hidden because she testified against her own family she had long eyelashes hazel eyes she had apple cheekbones, she was beautiful, I mean you could look at her forever.

The men of the Manasses family had traditional cultural beliefs that their

honor

and status in the community depended on their control over women when Alice's father is Mahmoud Mahmoud, he is the eldest of the brothers, there are quite a few, my brothers live in London and as a younger brother, he was Adi, he had all the power over the family because he was a very rich man, but as a sister Bacall was the first to rebel against the strict family. She codes, but she soon had problems with her father. I wasn't allowed to have long nails.

It wasn't enough to pluck my eyebrows. Know? fragrance. She was getting a lot of rays. I have to say that you use a lot of nasty beatings. I know that I experienced it when she was just under 16 years old in the community. Bacall grew into a daughter. Leaving home can embarrass the family. It's about your reputation. It's literally about your face. How others perceive you if they have a woman who doesn't. So they don't settle, that will impact them because their behavior does not reflect on themselves but on everyone around them, on the entire group, the entire family, the entire community in 2002, they cannot, it says that they tried to eliminate the dishonor of for her to leave home, he says. her brother asked to meet her, he lured her to a remote place and asked her to carry a suitcase, walk down that road in front of me, don't turn around, don't look at what I'm doing, he just hit me on the head stupid , although in a single strange way, he put his arm around my neck lifting me up almost without panicking.

I started trying to free myself from it. I bit her arm in that crook of her arm. I kicked him. I knelt down and he let me go. I said look look what you're doing you actually tried to kill me but I say she's yelling at him and she stopped and she started crying like a woman you know

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ly? crying and he said, I'm so sorry, but um, I'm the big boy, I'm the big man after my dad, I have to do this for an embarrassment until the end, those are exactly his words, actually, and he told me that. my dad actually paid her to do this to me, the car didn't press charges and she went into hiding, so this was all happening in the background before Banares and what happened to her in 2003, at the age of 17.

Banas got married. It was an arranged marriage to a man she had only met on one previous occasion; he was 10 years older than Burn because he was illiterate and had literally just gotten off the plane from Iraq. Her husband took her to live in Coventry for two years. Later in 2005 she left him and returned to the family home in London. In October of that year she went to a police station in Croydon to make a statement about the way her husband had treated her because it happened in Coventry and she was interviewed by police officers. West Midlands police, this video has never been seen on television before so describe your relationship for me from the early stages to when things started to go wrong for you, well he was just as I was thinking, like 15 years ago . the strict husband every time he wanted her to have sex it was his way, always his way, like when I said no or he wouldn't take no on the outside and he would just start coming in and doing what he wanted if I tried to stop him, but he would slap me or hit me on the back or just pull me towards him.

He began to feel pleasure in my body, as if he were holding on like this, they say that was when he told me that he would kill me if I told him. anything to anyone I was only 17 sometimes I was in the delivery room they would listen to me or an individual I didn't know if this was no longer in my culture or here I was only 17 so I just let him do what he wanted every time he raped me it was as if he had scared me and he only one of you, but he wanted to do it, he made me believe that my family loved him more than me and if I ever told anyone he would kill all of me. day I don't have family around me and for me they are very very far away so he could do whatever he wanted for me I didn't try to get anyone to defend me or anything here I just cried I went to visit her and I told her you know you look down and she said Yes, I'm enjoying my life.

I'm doing exactly what he tells me to do. He was, you know, physically, verbally, emotionally and any other way you can think of abusing her, it's degrading. How do you know that the only thing you are good for is doing, you know that, being a housewife, you are not good for anything else, so he was getting worse. There were a few times when he mistreated or abused me. I had to do it. Write it in a diary mm-hmm and I have taken some photos of my body like when they are marking it with bruises and things like that, their clothes that he ripped off they knew at that moment that he had caught them and he knew that I wrote it in a diary, like this that he destroyed them all, but I bought him a set of photos and because he hates me so much in the head, my lips were bleeding from my ears and he had twisted my hand pretty hard. of the bones he has sticking out of my wrist when he kicked me in the head, that

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ly affected me, now I have memory loss.

I wonder things and most of the time when I joke as you like, that's just An example of many times when he physically or sexually abused her and kept a secret from her family while she tried to be a good wife to his husband, but finally one of his sisters found out and through that sister. The rest of the family found out and he admitted that the yadu hit his daughter, but it's because she is disrespectful and forced her to have sex, but you only know when she says no, that's something the family found acceptable. and sent her back.

I tried harder to be a better wife to her husband. I left it several times. I moved back to my parents, but since it is very difficult for a Muslim woman like me to get divorced and after one final incident she left him, I was really shutting down. nothing like brushing things and I love it. I think that was the last discussion we had. She's had enough but of course leaving her husband in my culture is not allowed. She is the worst institutional woman after leaving her husband. Bernard stood up. greater danger because he met Robert, a man her family did not approve of.

I think Bella suddenly found a lot of freedom and a lot of joy and a lot of pleasure in meeting Ramit originally there, this was just a friendship, they started seeing each other and it turned into a full-blown relationship, rabbit, he's a lovely guy, I who plans to have children, they had names, they had plans for everything, but police recovered dozens of text messages between Banas and Roberts, she contacted him every morning and every night, just before going to bed. They kept their relationship a secret because they knew that the community was watching the women of the communities and how this spirit of honor is, they are under a form of constant surveillance, they are the eyes of the community, it is the young man of the community who Looking For. that they are on the lookout for any behavior that is unpleasant and that they are constantly feeding us back to the family and it is this type of constant surveillance that women become accustomed to after the bananas left their husband, she was worried that the men would follow her. she on the streets I have seen it and even now I mean a guy as soon as I left the house he followed me my name in my language Sartre Android and he told me that he should take me and that I should I got into his car and I told him no and I just put my head down and kept walking, so dad, you were just following me, people were following me, oh, it turns out they followed me and that was the main reason I came to the police station, okay, don?

Not in the future or at any time, if something happens to me, it's them. If you are ever concerned or fearful for your own safety, you should contact us immediately. I don't need you to worry. You know we can get someone out if that's the case. It's just been a euphoria, you know, for your own peace of mind. No, I am giving this statement. What can you do for me? You have given us lines of research that we wanted to follow. Well, you know what's happening. I think it's really happening. Just for you to stay informed and updated on what's going on.

Well, he went to the police. Banas was putting herself at great risk, but investigating officers did nothing to investigate her claims. Completely track down her husband. She took them three months. Just to write a statement for her to sign, this was one of at least five occasions in which Banas went to the police about the threats she was facing. The people who were following me, follow me, missed all the signs that she was in great danger. I'm telling this family what they can do for me two months after she went to the police. Banas and Rama were seen by members of the local community here outside the Warden Metro Station, Sr. fear of shops Bananarama was seen kissing he was outside the subway station which is just down the street here very quick to make a phone call to the head of the family guess what I saw your knees do that's what triggered everything And After that there was what I would call a war council, which is the broadcast place where the men of the extended family were invited and a decision was made there and then it was orchestrated by the uncle, who was a stronger man. . character that Boehner's father and uncle, in turn, had told the younger members of the community, but what I want them to do is kill Dennis, we are talking about organized

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men sitting around a table that They decided that she should die, that's how conspiratorial it is.

That's how deep it went, two days after this family meeting, Banas went to the local police station and made another statement. She said that she had heard her uncle say that they were going to kill her and a week later she gave a letter to the police identifying five members of her family. She said that we are going to kill her. She said that she did not want the police to take action so they did not investigate further. It may be difficult to understand why Banas protected her family, but in researching honor

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s she discovered that many young people who are in great danger do not want to get their family in trouble a few weeks after she gave the letter to the police, her father asked him to go to a relative's house for a gathering on New Year's Eve.

Benna was deceived. Her father said that he should come to discuss the issue of her divorce, then asked her to carry a suitcase to the house, he also brought some brandy and practically forced her daughter to drink brandy, obviously hoping to leave her stupefied. I told her to sit on the couch, watch TV, don't turn around, don't look at what I'm doing, and she turned around and looked at her father and surprised him by approaching her with rubber gloves, sneakers, and she realized She realized at that moment that they were going to kill her, she knew they were going to kill her, but her father left the room again, that gave Banas the opportunity to escape, she managed to escape through the back of the house and jumped in.

She put her hands through the next door neighbor's window to try to get attention, she climbed a fence, staggered down the path with her bare feet bleeding from the irons and wrists, and collapsed on the floor. a nearby cafe. The hospital staff who treated him that night said he had never seen anyone so scared in his life. They contacted Ramit and Ranat had the presence of mind while Banias was lying in the cartThe hospital asked Ben to tell him exactly what had happened at the same time as he was recording on his mobile phone again. Vanassa told him.

In her story to the police there was a policewoman who didn't completely believe her and she said that I thought she was just a girl who drank too much and that she was going to get in trouble and therefore she was making up this story. The police officer even considered charging Banias. with criminal damage for breaking the window during his escape in FranceIn this case, there was almost an avalanche of errors that arose from a lack of understanding, not a lack of awareness, a poor police Inc that we all read knows that now the afterburners came out of the hospital, she went and stayed with Robert Fermi briefly and then our family convinced her to come and meet them at that McDonald's to think about persuading her to come home and, since he had said something like "you know, if I run away , I'm dead, if I come home, I'm dead, you know, that feeling of utter worthlessness that somehow explains his decision to return home This is one of the last text messages sent to Rama the next morning. .She disappeared.

Her family claims she brought them disgrace for loving a man they didn't approve of just because they were in love. I'm thinking why should laughter be so hated? She told the police her life was in danger, but she didn't. They helped. Her family had already tried to kill her once, but she decided to return home in January 2006. Her boyfriend recently reported Banaz missing. The initial head of a Scotland Yard homicide team was Caroline. Well, she was on guard. It was my first week in charge of that team and I received a phone call from a local detective inspector who was concerned about one of her missing people.

My job really was I was the Intel sergeant, so my job was there with all the intelligence that we gathered. I was now part of Lewisham team 16 and became the escape case officer. He was one of the detective sergeants, not a single member of the Kurdish community. helped us, got no positive input from the community, and there must have been dozens, if not hundreds, of people who knew what had happened to Banaz. We encounter attempts and a large-scale conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, young people. that she made false statements, people said she was alive when in fact she wasn't, there was a lot of work and a lot of red hair, a lot of things where we were looking at things and it would take us a week to eliminate that.

Under the investigation about getting involved in something that improves her own image within the community, there are more than 50 people involved. It is to one degree or another in that murder that we discover, a couple of days into the investigation, that Burners had an older sister. I called Becca, who was separated from the family, not living in the family home. The police knocked on my door asking if they could come in and they told me it was your sister, your sisters disappeared, so when they told me that she disappeared and my family didn't know I knew that wasn't

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I knew that wasn't

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because I knew I knew in my heart that you know it has to do with the family members the men I found out in early March someone from the Kurdish community had found Bacall and had received a phone call to tell her that she would be the next person to being murdered, the risk to her was obviously phenomenal, we knew people had tracked her phone, people knew roughly what area she was in. was living and we actually moved her from house to house at one point trying to keep her safe to stop and prevent people from finding her, the police were now putting all their resources into the case but the clue as to what had happened to her Banaras was already in his hands and he himself came from Bananas.

This is a letter that was delivered through the nose to the owner of the local police station around December 12, 2005. It gives him details of the people he has heard we are going to. to be responsible for

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her, numbers two, three, four and five have said that they are ready and willing to do the job of killing me and my boyfriend and this was said by my uncle Ari Mahmood while my uncle was talking on the phone with my mother . On the second of December, around 6:00 to 7:00 that afternoon, he also said that he was going to kill me and my boyfriend Robert and it is signed by a good man who could write like a child and speak literally from beyond the grave.

This is what is happening. what happened to me is from that letter, we were later able to identify some of the people she was talking about and one letter was accurate in every detail of what she said about these men like omar hussein mohamed ali muhammad hammer when those three All men are cousins, so there are cousins ​​from Banaras and they are cousins ​​to each other. Mohammad Hama was arrested and charged with her murder. It was a race against time because we had accused Muhammad. Come on, there's only a certain amount of time you can keep someone in custody and we still haven't found the body, we couldn't even prove that Bonanza was dead let alone that Muhammad Hammond had been the one who killed her, so the race was really underway to find Vanessa's body and the manly family.

They didn't show any interest in this research, they weren't raising us and they said: have you found my daughter yet? or there is just absolutely no interest, even when we were dragging the lake in front of her house, you know no one came out or you just have no interest. Anyway, it's an absolute outrage, she was a completely innocent victim and I think those things impact you: you always do things for the victim's family, there is one thing that we always, yes, we always try to serve in the murders the victim's family with this. I never tried to solve the murder of the victim's family, which was going to solve the Bernays murder, because you know, she didn't have anyone else.

Her family had killed him. Two Mohammeds followed a really strange pattern of behavior in that their phones were showing that they were returning to London munching fry between London and Birmingham Mohammed Hammer's car was a rental car, the GPS or equivalent in his car meant there was a record of every place he had been and the police just sent the helicopter to fly over the area where the cars had been parked, we got information that there was a freezer over his grave and Carolyn, I was sitting there, we have this information, she It was, we saw that freezer for men, oh yeah, we.

We're sitting there on a shelf with our brains and all of a sudden she said that's on the video where's the video? so we looked at it and sure enough, there's a freezer in this backyard that we see from the helicopter she was in, so that was it. We thought that had to be there, so Stuart and I got in the car and literally drove there that night. Once we were inside they sent us a forensic archaeologist who looked at the ground outside in the back garden and immediately saw that there had been a disturbance in the ground towards the back of the house buried six feet deep his body hidden in a suitcase dibbs fam bonus she was in a fetal position she was curled up like in a fetal position which is somehow I don't know that's a health thing for me, it makes it even worth it that the fetal position represents in a child almost like a child in the womb being in that suitcase where and the whole tragedy of this case for me is about that relationship between parents and children that is gone. terribly terribly wrong, someone knocked on the door and he was the official of my family, but she was talking to me and she is the one I sit with and have a day of friendship with me and just the tears came floating.

She couldn't control me. I wanted to do it. just get out of my skin just die was, you know, they told me that if I buried my sister in a suitcase and the water pipes broke, they would put her in there, so it was pretty serious, the situation was pretty horrible, it just broke me. just shut up in pieces not long after, then my family knows officer, she brought me pictures, pictures of my sister, worse, never in my life give me food to see my own sister turn to ashes like that, that would be enough to drive me crazy tosomeone.

Three men were charged with her murder, including her father and her uncle, two other suspects were on the run and fled to Iraq in court. Vanassa's sister testified against her family. I have the utmost respect for Becca for having the courage to testify against her family. Knowing that your family would get you killed for doing so, Vanassa's boyfriend Rawat also gave proof that he is still in hiding and couldn't appear on this show. We now know that Banaz was murdered on the morning of January 24 and, piecing together all the details, According to the evidence, the suspects met at Mohammed Hammers' address and targeted Ben as his home quite deliberately.

His father and his mother left the family home, leaving banners on the premises with one of his sisters and that meant that the coast was clear for the men. entering it was a bad habit to sleep on the living room floor there was no bedroom for her there was not enough space in the house so she slept on the living room floor and those three men Muhammad Ali Mohammed hammer and omar Hussein came in In the house, he woke up to find three men breaking into his room and knowing that at that moment they were going to kill him, the police had secretly recorded Muhammad Houma.

They recorded him talking about what happened that morning. He was shamelessly bragging about what he had done. those men had done to burn hours of that morning and then laughing at each other in the back, you know, being manly, they were slapping her, I have a new sheet for her, the bitch's soul did not discharge itself with anything, it took more than half, an hour was Upstairs I was also aware I swear to God I didn't know she was there her arey the bastard lied to us Ari said there was no one there I will put my leg there on his back Mohammed on his neck he made the cord like a hook I took his hand and I told her put it on quickly and when he heard that she was terrified he immediately put the cord around her neck she was vomiting well he put the wire around her neck and gave it to me then I was holding the cord so tight and stepping on her neck too when he I stepped on the back of his head, his mouth and nose were on the floor and that was in the suitcase I told him to discharge his soul I was kicking his head the soul did not discharge so easily the cable around his neck went deep through the skin his soul did not it was discharged because he was able to tighten it tighter he tightened it around her neck and it didn't take more than 4 to 5 minutes her soul was discharged and she didn't make a sound you while you were making this movie i came face to face with the father and the bonanza guy in a police station you don't want to tell your side of the story I'm sorry who killed erections Won't you agree to give us your side of the story?

I am making a

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about your case and I wonder if you are fake, who killed Banas? You're innocent, so who killed Vanna? I do not say. you didn't know that in 2007 three men were behind bars but the job wasn't done two banas cousins ​​suspected of killing her had fled to Europe no one had been extradited to the UK from Iraq before but the team weren't going to give up now you know what paranoid psychology she doesn't stop anyone from getting their way.

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was part of us and he had just taken us to omar hussein in mohammed ali had fled the uk before i realized that

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had been murdered two other people who were actually two other people physically present who killed her and they disposed of his body and to think that they had gone to Iraq and to receive reports from people saying that they were bragging about their actions in the cafe, their thing. you're not going to get away with it you're just not going to get away with it no one could get away with it not when we know who they are, let's cross the boundaries Singh has never done that is come back from Iraq, well how are we going to do it What we're going to do to do tonight Omar Hussein was practically beyond the reach of the law there because his family is so powerful that they were calling him and his brother.

His brother was a high-ranking police officer there and our information was that he was being protected, I believe. there many people felt that they had done nothing wrong, they believed that since she brought dishonor then they should kill her, eventually it turned out that she had an argument with her two brothers and that brother shot her in the leg with an Ak-47 and was arrested once he was in the hospital. The second suspect, Muhammad Ali, was involved in a car accident and was arrested by Iraqi police. The team went to Iraq to get the courts to extradite the two men and it took three years, but in the end we did it, we followed them to the ends of the earth, you really know what Caroline is like, she doesn't stop, so in the In the last four months of his life, Panas went to the police at least five times after his death, The Independent.

The Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation into police misconduct and criticized nine police officers, six from the PoliceMetropolitan and three from West Midlands for not doing enough to help her. The Metropolitan Police told us that we have learned a lot from the trivial case we have developed. working arrangements to ensure effective and professional standards of research and support. All London boroughs have a dedicated Community Safety Unit. Honor-based violence awareness training is also provided. We are resolute in our determination to keep victims and potential victims safe. West Midlands Police told us a number of measures have been put in place including a policy for the investigation of rape and serious sexual assault, the introduction of specialist teams, improving training regarding honor-based violence and working more closely with couples and the public.

We will continually review policies and procedures to ensure the safety of victims is paramount. Some people argue that the topic of honor killings should not be addressed for fear of stigmatizing entire communities. There are many people around the country who tell me that they are actually wary of entering this minefield because they see it as a minefield, the moment they start talking about this issue locally, they will be branded racist. The fact is that this has been happening for centuries in all cultures, in all religions, all over the world. In the world, any idea that you can't talk about criminal

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s because they take place in a part of the community that It is a minority, it is horrible.

I find it quite offensive as a member, if you like a minority community. I think it's much better for everyone. If these things are brought to light and discussed, there are many people within the Kurdish community who have suffered honor killings and some who speak out bravely. I have to say that the majority of the community is against that type of violence, but this small minority had a lot of power over the entire community to remain silent, to remain silent, to not say anything because then they will be told that you betray the Kurdish community, we are not destroying them, we are defending people's rights, women's rights, we are the real Kurdish people according to According to official statistics, there is an honor killing every four weeks in Britain, but the Crown Prosecution Service admits that the real numbers are probably much higher in the first kingdom, we have 12 holidays a year, there are things like that, but we don't even know that it is like that.

In my opinion, I'm underestimating because generally when a Charles goes missing, who reports that the child is missing, but if the family knows the reason the child went missing, you won't get a report, you won't know. that child is missing, we have no idea what we have is a significant understatement. The Pinellas family has never commented on this case before, but they contacted us to tell us that Bernards was a lovely, loving, intelligent, kind girl who loved her family and her family loved her. I miss her very much we did everything possible to support her in her marriage and when she decided to leave it we supported her our children are not oppressed and never have been it is not true that the family has tried to erase the memory of being burned as is the family that takes care of their Tomb say it was the police who let her down, not them, and that they cooperated with the murder investigation.

They say that Burn as assistant Akahl was never hit or in danger. They say she was not attacked by her brother. go and visit banaz, it's cool once in a while, but I'm not sure how many other people actually do that, but I'm not sure if anyone else could find it because that grave remained unmarked for years after the trial. right, it's around here somewhere good, that's new, it's absolutely new, that marker, I'm glad, but it's there, that's good, I think BEC told me that when I saw last time that she had planted some bulbs of lily there. what were the sisters favorite flowers, that's really good for them to come up early, yes, but be nice when they come out.

I feel like even my life will always be in danger, safety is something I dream of, yes, something I'm really longing for. my circumstances I think that is going to happen soon. I'm just doing this on behalf of my sister Mia for my sister and you know she will always live in my heart in my life. I certainly felt like we had become surrogate parents. Because we didn't feel like she was loved by her own parents, we took on that parenting role and that didn't mean we were too close to the research, it just meant we were showing her love and respect. and that someone should love her, someone should care, so we did it, we still do you.