Islamic family ended marriage the Shari’a way

Court testimony reveals Islamic family ended a marriage the Shari’a way: standing by the husband’s decision to bludgeon her to death

Chris Brooke with the Daily Mail, London, England, reported this week of an ongoing legal case that has some of the stiff-upper-lips of staunch old Barristers quivering.

It involved an arranged marriage, a bride shipped in from Pakistan, and soon the Islamic family ended the marriage the Shari’a way:

Sabia Rani, 19, was attacked repeatedly over three weeks, beaten to death by her husband while her in-laws who shared the same house ignored her sickening ordeal, a court heard yesterday.

Rani suffered bruising over 90% of her body and 'catastrophic' injuries usually only seen in car crash victims.

The 'vulnerable' teenager arrived five months earlier from Pakistan for the arranged marriage. She received emergency treatment in an intensive care unit, the Leeds Crown Court jury heard.

Testimony alleged the four members of her husband's family did nothing to help her; they turned a blind eye as he continued the beatings and ultimately murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all shared.

Her injuries included at least 15 fractures on 10 ribs. Two of the family members lied under oath at husband Shazad Khan's murder trial - a deliberate attempt to help him cheat justice, the court heard.

The victim's mother-in-law and a sister-in-law blamed her beatings on 'evil spirits, curses and black magic.' 

Would Islamic people lie under oath? Say it isn’t so!!! Oh, wait, it is Allah’s will – lie to the infidels, yes – and so keep the law of Shari’a.

A Leeds Crown Court jury last January convicted Khan, 25, of Oakwood Grange, Leeds, of murdering his wife.

Police launched an investigation into the role of other family members after that trial.

Detectives arrested and charged the victim's mother-in-law Phullan Bibi, 52, sisters-in-law Nazia Naureen, 28, and Uzma Khan, 23, and her husband Majid Hussain, 28.

All four denied a charge of allowing the death of a vulnerable adult. Khan and Hussain also denied a charge of perjury.

Summarising the prosecution case Simon Myerson, QC, said of the defendants: 'They did nothing. She was in severe pain, but not one of them did anything about it.'

Sabia grew up in the Pakistani region of Kashmir and arrived in the UK in December 2005 to marry her cousin Shazad Khan and live with his family in Leeds. Although they 'signed a marriage certificate' in Pakistan three years earlier, they were not formally married until a ceremony on 15 January 2006.

The teenage bride didn't speak English, knew no one else apart from her husband's family and never went out alone, the court heard.

Paramedics were called to the family home at 11.28 am on Sunday 21 May 2006 to find Sabia's fully-clothed and dead body in an upstairs bathroom. They claimed Sabia had been found dead in the bath, but the court heard she was 'probably killed in the garage' and her body taken upstairs.

Mr Myerson said Khan had inflicted a number of brutal attacks during the last three weeks of Sabia's life. The final attack which killed her was 'prolonged and vicious,' the court heard…

The court heard Sabia would have been in terrible pain and her injuries 'couldn't have been hidden by simple stoicism.'

Que the Hijab – better yet, have her wear a full burkah – with sunglasses to hide the eyes. How convenient.

Beaten to death: Sabia Rani was repeatedly attacked over a three-week period by Shazad Khan (right)

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