On January 25, 2006, Caroline Goode, chief inspector at the Metropolitan Police Department, London, England suddenly received a call from a young man named Rahmat Sulemani informing him that his girlfriend, Ms. Banaz Mahmod, 20 years old
The man said that he and his girlfriend usually contacted each other during the day by texting, but from the morning of January 24, 2006, he no longer received any messages from Banaz.
3 months after the search, Banaz was found but she is now just a soulless body.
`Before her disappearance, Banaz repeatedly accused the police that her father and uncle intended to kill her,` said chief inspector of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Banaz was born in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Iraq and came to England with his family as an asylum seeker in 1998. In 2003, when he was 17 years old, Banaz was forced into a forced marriage by his family.
`Abbas is a strict husband. He forces me to obey every request he makes. I am not allowed to say ‘no’. Even when I want to have sex, if I refuse
Abbas said he would kill me if I dared to reveal anything to anyone.
2 years after the prison of married life, when she couldn’t bear it anymore, the girl left her parents’ house and told them that she wanted a divorce.
The fear increased when Banaz learned that her father and uncle Ari had discovered that she was secretly dating Rahmat Sulemani – 27 years old, from the Kurdish community from Iran.
On December 2, 2005, one of Banaz’s cousins saw her and Rahmat kissing outside Morden Tube station.
Mrs. Behya, Banaz’s mother, because she loved her child so much, despite the possibility of being discovered by her husband, told her daughter the bad news.
`They were preparing to kill me and my boyfriend. This was announced to my mother by my uncle Ari on the phone on December 2, 2005,` the report said.
However, once again no one believed her because there was no real evidence to prove her words.
Mr. Mahmod then forced Banaz to drink a lot of strong alcohol.
After that, she ran out into the street and fainted before being taken to the hospital by surrounding people.
The girl’s boyfriend later went to Banaz hospital, and the two returned to Rahmat’s house together.
On January 24, 2006, Banaz was raped and strangled to death in the family living room by Mohamed Hama, who was hired by Mahmod’s family to humiliate and murder Banaz.
When investigating the case, Caroline’s team encountered many difficulties when members of the Kurdish community repeatedly provided false testimonies.
`In Banaz’s case, there were at least 50 people from the Kurdish community involved in the murder, whether planning, killing, disposing of the body or providing false evidence to hinder the investigation process.`
These false statements have caused us to waste a lot of time and still cannot find Banaz’s whereabouts.
While Hama was in prison awaiting trial, the police secretly monitored his phone calls and thus discovered clues related to Banaz’s case and then quickly found the whereabouts of the body.
On June 11, 2007, Mahmod Mahmod and his accomplice Ari Mahmod were convicted of murder.
Mr. Rahmat, Banaz’s boyfriend, repeatedly gave evidence in court and had to hear horrific details about the case, including that it took Mohamed Hama more than 30 minutes to strangle Banaz to death with a shoelace.
Banaz’s mother did not appear in court to testify on her daughter’s behalf.
Banaz’s cousins Ali and Hussain fled Britain to Iraq shortly after the murder.
Caroline was ultimately successful in bringing all the killers in Banaz’s case to justice and that was one of the reasons she received the Queen’s Police Medal in 2011. But she certainly didn’t.
Source: Compiled