'She won't be the last': why not enough has changed since the murder of Banaz Mahmod
by Karen McVeigh from World news | The Guardian on (#58CXH)
In 2006, the 20-year-old was killed on the orders of family members. Ahead of an ITV drama on the case, her sister reflects on the police response
As a television drama of the real-life investigation into the murder of a young woman by her family airs this month, her sister told the Guardian little had changed since Banaz Mahmod was killed in 2006.
Lessons have not been learned. Banaz is not the first honour' killing and she won't be the last," says Payzee Mahmod, a British Kurd, who was a teenager when her sister disappeared from her south London home. Banaz had gone to the police five times for help.
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