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A Pakistani couple accused of ‘honour killing’ their daughter after she refused their calls for to marry a cousin of their homeland had been jailed for all times in Italy yesterday.
The physique of 18-year-old Saman Abbas was dug up in November 2022 in an deserted farmhouse close to the fields the place her father labored in northern Italy. She was discovered to have a damaged neck.
This was a 12 months and a half after she was final seen alive on surveillance video strolling close to the identical fields with per dad and mom.
The tribunal in Reggio Emilia in central Italy dominated that the dad and mom ordered the homicide, and that an uncle had strangled his niece.
Italian prosecutors had argued that she was was killed by her household on Could 1, 2021. A couple of days later, her dad and mom flew from Milan to Pakistan.
The physique of 18-year-old Saman Abbas (pictured) was dug up in November 2022 in an deserted farmhouse close to the fields the place her father labored in northern Italy
The dad and mom, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, had been sentenced to life in jail, whereas her uncle, Danish Hasnain, was handed a 14-year jail time period after accepting a plea cut price. Two cousins had been discovered not responsible and had been launched from jail.
Abbas’ father, who was extradited from Pakistan in August, professed his innocence throughout a tearful assertion to the courtroom earlier than deliberations.
His spouse, Shaheen, was tried in absentia and is believed to nonetheless be in Pakistan.
The trial was essentially the most high-profile of a number of legal investigations in Italy in recent times coping with the slaying or mistreatment of immigrant ladies or ladies who rebelled towards household insistence that they marry somebody chosen for them.
An post-mortem revealed the younger lady had a damaged neck bone, presumably attributable to strangulation, in a case that has shocked the nation.
The dad and mom, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, had been sentenced to life in jail, whereas her uncle, Danish Hasnain (pictured), was handed a 14-year jail time period after accepting a plea cut price. Two cousins had been discovered not responsible had been launched from jail
Saman Abbas’s mom Shaheen was tried in absentia and is believed to nonetheless be in Pakistan
Abbas had emigrated as a young person from Pakistan to a farm city, Novellara, in Italy’s northern area of Emilia-Romagna.
She shortly embraced Western methods, together with shedding her headband, getting piercings, carrying eyeliner and courting a younger man of her selection.
In a single social media put up, she and her Pakistani boyfriend had been proven kissing on a road within the regional capital, Bologna.
In line with Italian investigators, that kiss enraged Abbas’ dad and mom, who needed her to marry a cousin in Pakistan.
Abbas had reportedly advised her boyfriend that she feared for her life, due to her refusal to marry an older man in her homeland.
Abbas had denounced her dad and mom to the police and social staff positioned her in a shelter in November 2020.
Abbas (pictured) had emigrated as a young person from Pakistan to a farm city, Novellara, in Italy’s northern area of Emilia-Romagna
The physique of 18-year-old Saman Abbas was dug up in November 2022 in an deserted farmhouse (pictured) close to the fields the place her father labored in northern Italy
However she visited her household in April 2021, planning to choose up her passport and begin a brand new life along with her boyfriend.
She disappeared quickly after, and police, alerted by the boyfriend, raided the household residence in Could however the dad and mom had already left for Pakistan.
Her brother advised police that he had overheard his father speaking concerning the homicide and that it was the uncle who had killed his sister.
The younger lady was most likely killed the night time of April 30 to Could 1, based on surveillance digicam footage displaying 5 individuals leaving the household residence with shovels, crowbars and buckets, earlier than returning two and a half hours later.
