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Life for man who abused and then killed teenage bride from Pakistan

A husband who beat his teenage bride to death weeks after she arrived from Pakistan in an arranged marriage was convicted of her murder yesterday and jailed for life.

Shazad Khan, 25, whose 19-year-old wife's injuries were worse than any a Home Office pathologist had seen in a 16-year career, will serve a minimum of 15 years before he is eligible for parole.

The prospect of life in Britain held out hope for Khan's young bride Sabia Rani, who had left school at 13 to help with the cooking, cleaning and the raising of her siblings in the village of Palak, in the Mirpur district of Pakistan. She shared a small home there with her grandmother, parents, two brothers and one sister.

She met Khan when he visited Pakistan for a family funeral in December 2002 and they married, but it was not until December 2005 that she arrived in Britain, with no grasp of English and little sense of the lifestyle.

The first signs were not good. Her new husband expected domesticity from her and was unhappy to find that she did not place fresh sandwiches in his lunch box, which he left in the kitchen at the family home at Oakwood Grange, Roundhay, Leeds. When she did produce sandwiches, she had failed to establish that he was off work the following day, which also angered him.

Ms Rani also found herself living with up to eight - members of her husband's westernised family yet struggled to fit in with any of them, according to Khan.

She rarely saw her husband, who worked long hours and had three jobs. Khan told police that his own mother had raised five children while his father worked 14-hour days at a factory - so that is "how it would be" for Sabia.

The smallest tasks - visiting the supermarket or knowing how to apply the make-up her husband expected her to wear - were difficult for her, Khan told detectives under interview. He admitted this irritated him, as did her failure to fit in with the family.

Khan's mother believed Ms Rani was possessed by evil spirits. This was confirmed by a "holy man" in Bradford, who did not meet Ms Rani but told her in-laws about her "problem" after performing a ceremony involving a top she wore.

Khan told his work supervisor that he was unhappy with his marriage because he had been rushed into it, and soon began kicking and beating his wife.

Leeds Crown Court heard that Ms Rani's injuries, similar to those of a car crash victim, were so severe that she would have been in constant pain and ill for at least three weeks before she died.

Yet Khan's sister said she had seen no evidence of injuries. She and Ms Rani had been great friends, she said.

Ms Rani was found dead in a bath of cold water at the family home on 21 May last year, after another attack.

The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Norman Jones, QC, criticised Khan's family. "I can't help but note that others in that house, that very intimate family, must have known," he said. The court heard further inquiries where being made with the family following the conviction.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2145144.ece

Man! That is just terrible!

And no-one else in the family knew? Yeah right!

How awful...

SEX BEAST ATE 17 KIDS
A SERIAL killer has allegedly confessed to having sex with 17 child victims after they were dead before eating them.

Police claim ex-cook Surender Koli admitted the murders after he was given a truth drug. He allegedly used sweets to lure his victims to a house in New Delhi, India.

Businessman's servant Koli was held after neighbours complained of a stench from a drain where police found body parts.

Six police were later sacked for failing to "take seriously" reports of missing children.

Yesterday police chief Kiran Bedi, said: "This was a preventable tragedy."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/

Noor...*SEX BEAST ATE 17 KIDS
A SERIAL killer has allegedly confessed to having sex with 17 child victims after they were dead before eating them.

Police claim ex-cook Surender Koli admitted the murders after he was given a truth drug. He allegedly used sweets to lure his victims to a house in New Delhi, India.

Businessman's servant Koli was held after neighbours complained of a stench from a drain where police found body parts.

Six police were later sacked for failing to "take seriously" reports of missing children.

Yesterday police chief Kiran Bedi, said: "This was a preventable tragedy."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/

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URGHHHHHHH!!!!!

I know there's a food shortage in India but this is just tooo much!!!!

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Exactly. That’s just disgusting, there are some rite psychos in the world.

Noor...*Life for man who abused and then killed teenage bride from Pakistan

What a dog.

And how depressing...and not that uncommon.

MuslimSister

Noor...*Life for man who abused and then killed teenage bride from Pakistan

What a dog.

And how depressing...and not that uncommon.

In one, makes me sick when i here stories like that. So sad n upsetting 🙁

did he say he did it cos he had a jinn inside him?

Life for man who abused and then killed teenage bride from Pakistan

inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon, may Allah grant this shaheedah a high status in jannah, ameen.

Snoopzdid he say he did it cos he had a jinn inside him?

no his mother said the girl had a jinn in her. :roll: someone shud go beat up the 'holy man'. maybe then he'll consider a new career.

:evil: as for the guy and his family, such people should be given the death sentence. if they lived as an extended family they would've known what was going on. lilsis's label of 'caveman mentality' seriously applies here. it makes me so mad. :evil:

Woman drinks so much water she dies

• Woman, 28, dies of water intoxication, assistant coroner says
• Radio contest required drinking large amounts, not voiding
• Victim was trying to win video game console for her children

Link: CNN

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Gotta say water intoxication is pretty scary.drinking as little as 1.8litres in a short period of time can be fatal.

India rape accused weds 'victim'

An Indian man accused of raping a girl has married his alleged victim in a religious ceremony in a temple within the compound of a law court.
Kamalnath Patel, a 22-year-old farmer, offered to marry the girl during the trial in Madhya Pradesh state.

He is accused of kidnapping and raping her two years ago, when she was 16.

Prosecutors said the marriage may mean the court takes a more lenient view if Mr Patel is convicted. Campaigners called the marriage "shameful".

The issue of rape still attracts a lot of stigma in India - in most cases members of the public blame the victim for the crime committed against her.

Families present

A court in the central city of Jabalpur has been hearing the case for the last couple of months. The next hearing is on Saturday.

Special public prosecutor Umesh Vaidya said the "court may take cognisance of the fact that the accused has married the alleged victim".

Mr Vaidya said: "Family members from both sides had told the court during the last hearing that they wanted the boy and the girl to get married."

He said the court would be informed of the wedding at the next hearing.

An eyewitness said the marriage was solemnised in the presence of the girl's family members, although Mr Patel's father refused to participate in the ceremony.

The couple were to appear before the registrar of marriages on Wednesday to have their marriage registered.

'Distressing'

Women rights' activist, Kiran Walia, called the marriage "shameful".

"It is more distressing since the court was aware of the impending wedding plan," Ms Walia said.

Last year, a Delhi court asked a nurse to consider a marriage proposal from a man who had been convicted of raping and assaulting her.

Women's groups, including the National Commission for Women, criticised the court for even entertaining such a proposal.

The nurse rejected the offer and the judge gave her attacker a life sentence.

Rape cases have been rising steadily in India although a large number of them still go unreported.

BBCNEWS

MuslimSister

Rape cases have been rising steadily in India although a large number of them still go unreported.

BBCNEWS

what about pakistan , are rape cases just as common thier as they are in India ?

Who knows? Across the middle east, reporting and record-keeping concerning rape is shrouded in mystery.

No stoning, Canada migrants told

Don't stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.

The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting.

Its council published the new rules on the town's website.

"We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here," the declaration reads.

"We consider it completely outside norms to... kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc."

It points out that women are allowed to drive, vote, dance and own their own homes.

The rules ban Sikh children from carrying ceremonial daggers to school, even though the Supreme Court has ruled they can.

The man behind the declaration, councillor Andre Drouin, told the National Post newspaper the rules were not racist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6316151.stm

u know that story of the young pakistani bride being killed by her husband? hear stories like that all the time from my sis, and more than often on the news. many tend to come from Birmingham, and usually be based on pakistani origins. However ive heard about some bengali cases..me sis is a brummie, she has local stories. i.e remember that man who killed a pakistani bride to be on her wedding day then escaped abroad..got caught in end? My sis was living a street away from them lot before..yikes.

it sounds like such a ghetto duno how she lives there. Recently she moved into a posh nosh area but still im apprehensive. She said nevermind we have an alarm system in place, i said mm the burglars will steal that too, that's the brummie style loool.

999 crew sacked in meal break row

Two ambulance paramedics in North Yorkshire have been sacked because they did not respond to a 999 call while on a meal break, the BBC has learned.

The two men had been on duty for about six hours during a shift last month when the emergency call came in and they said they were unable to respond.

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service sacked them and they are appealing against that decision, the GMB union said.

Paramedics there took almost double the estimated response time to reach a teenager choking on a pen top because the nearest crew was on a lunch break.

The boy later died but there is no suggestion he would have survived if the nearer crew had attended.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6319675.stm

Ban on playground contact games

A Lincolnshire school has banned physical playground games because pupils were copying violent computer games, making playtime too rough.

The ban has been introduced at St John's Primary at Bracebridge Heath near Lincoln.

The ban involves contact playground games like tag and kiss chase. Sports like football or cricket are not part of the ban.

Headteacher Susan Tuck said: "The children are watching television, they're watching films and they're playing computer games, very often it's the violent element of that they are seeing and hearing.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6355731.stm

my primary school banned football because younger kids kept getting hit by the ball! it was ok, but when we were allowed to play football in secondary school, we all ran around like idiots cos we'd never had much practice!

british bulldog was the best game tho :twisted:

Heart attack baby back from dead

A baby boy who was pronounced dead after a heart attack came back to life 30 minutes later as he lay in his grieving parents' arms.

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Pakistani girl sold to pay-off gambling debt

The mother of a girl in Pakistan claimed by a man in lieu of a 16 year old gambling debt has appealed to the authorities for help.
The woman told journalists in the southern city of Hyderabad that she feared for her daughter's safety.

Women are often used as collateral to settle debts and feuds amongst tribesmen in rural Pakistan.

Last year, Pakistan's ruling political party introduced legislation to outlaw forced marriages under tribal customs.

Tribal justice

Nooran Bibi said her late husband had promised her daughter, Rasheeda, to one Lal Haider in lieu of a poker game debt amounting to 10,000 rupees ($164).

The mother says Rasheeda was a year old when her husband told Mr Haider that he could have her instead "when she grew up", reports the Associated Press news agency.

After Rasheeda turned 17, Mr Haider had come to claim her, even though the debt had been paid off, the mother said.

She also complained that he had threatened her family if Rasheeda was not handed over.

Both families belong to a local tribe, and the case was referred to elders who ruled that the girl must be handed over to Mr Haider.

The matter is now with the local police who have registered a case against Mr Haider and the elders.

The use of women to settle blood feuds and debts in tribal society in Pakistan by promising them in marriage remains widespread despite recent reforms.

In November 2006, the ruling PML-Q political party introduced legislation in parliament to outlaw such marriages.

The new bill criminalises customs such as vanni and swara, in which young girls are given away in marriage to settle feuds and debts.

It prescribes a maximum of three years' imprisonment for offenders in these cases.

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[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/06/nbirds0… Telegraph[/url] The avian mafia's mob rule

The mafia would be put in the shade by the strong-arm mob tactics of their avian equivalent - brown-headed cowbirds.

The cowbirds are among a range of species, notably cuckoos, that are so-called brood parasites that lay their eggs among unsuspecting hosts. But questions remain as to why the host birds raise chicks that are obviously not their own.

The new study finds that cowbirds are likely to ransack and destroy the nests of warblers that reject mob rule by refusing to raise cowbird eggs.

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The researchers monitored 182 predator-proofed nests over four breeding seasons and found that warbler nests were ransacked 56 per cent of the time when researchers removed the parasitic eggs and cowbirds were allowed into the nests, versus only six per cent when the cowbird eggs were accepted and cowbirds had nest access.

No nests were ransacked when researchers removed cowbird eggs and cowbirds were denied nest access.

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Comeback for 'non-offensive' pigs

Organisers of a children's concert have given the go-ahead for the three little pigs to appear, after they were banned over fears they might offend Muslims.
Honley Junior School in West Yorkshire was to perform the Roald Dahl story of Little Red Riding Hood and the pigs - but was told to substitute puppies.

Now Kirklees Council has stepped in to allow the pigs a reprieve.

No complaints had been made about the pigs appearing in the Kirklees Primary Music Festival event.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6456961.stm

I cant speak for all Muslims, but pigs have never 'offended' me. And I don't understand why many non Muslims got out of their way to make sure that offense is not caused by them.

I can't understand it either.

It's not like they're gonna eat them after the concert :roll:.

Btw I can't understand why the BBC would think this story is newsworthy.

Two elderly men used a gun and an axe to settle their dispute over a younger woman. Radivoje Sinadinovic, 77, said 52-year-old Zivkica Jankovic had been his lover but she was wooed away by his neighbour Ljubisa Petkovic, 78, who bragged about the size of his, er... pension. The woman was shot in the leg during the row while a dozen police were called to stop the brawl in the town of Leskovac.

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Happy slapping hell
Alledgedly accused of happy slapping Fanzo khan aged 15 is being taken to school court to discuss his case for slapping students and recording them Fanzo has denied the allegations placed at him he had this to say ' this is a very upseeting allegation and one which has placed my life at risk'
we asked him why ' if i am found guilty my parents are going to happy slap me to death ' reports show that fanzo maybe suffering from abuse at home and this maybe a mental issue facing him and his representative is himself had this to say ' my client is facing various health issues which have to be face in order for him to attend' we asked him are you crazy he replied with ' no comment'
news report by Fanzo Khan

Tendulkar achieves superhero status

India's Sachin Tendulkar is set to appear as a superhero in a new range of comic books, animation and games.

The cricketing legend has linked up with Virgin Comics and his character will wear body armour and wield a flaming cricket bat.

Tendulkar holds the records for most Test centuries (35) and one-dayers (41) and most runs in one-dayers (14,783).

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson said: "Sachin's success is legendary and we are delighted to collaborate with him."

The first Master Blaster comic book is expected to be released in June and proves that Tendulkar's marketing appeal is undiminshed even though he has been an international sportsman since 1989.

He has benefitted from various big money sponsorship contracts over the years for products including luxury cars, tyres, credit cards, motorcycles, Tvs, energy and soft drinks, shoes and biscuits.

And two years ago had a stage musical about him called Main Sachin Tendulkar [Me Sachin Tendulkar].

So what makes someone who stands only 5ft 4ins tall the perfect super hero?

"Sachin's unparallelled skill on the cricket field and his dynamic personality off it make for the raw elements of a great hero that will inspire kids all across the planet, " said Gotham Chopra, the company's chief creative officer.

Super villains, watch out!

BBC News

Not really offbeat, but horrific:

'Feral' boys jailed for killing

A pair of teenagers who repeatedly bullied and attacked a vulnerable man, before beating and tossing him into a river, have been jailed for life.

Craig Dodd, 17, and Ryan Palin, 15, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of David Atherton, 40, who died last May.

Warrington Crown Court heard that Mr Atherton, who had learning difficulties and suffered alcoholism, was subjected to regular abuse by the pair.

The court heard Dodd and Palin described as "feral, wild and untamed".

Reporting restrictions, which would usually prevent the boys' names being published, were lifted by the judge.

Dodd and Palin were part of a teenage gang who preyed on vulnerable adults in Warrington, the court heard.

Mr Atherton, originally from Wigan, Greater Manchester, was forced into letting the gang use his flat to drink and smoke cannabis.

The teenagers subjected him to regular abuse and humiliation, which they called "terroring".

This included pouring drinks and food on to him, daubing his face with ink and make-up, burning his hair, urinating on him and vandalising his flat. It also included regular beatings.

Patrick Harrington QC, prosecuting, said: "The two defendants, often with others, were involved in a campaign of terror and violence directed at David Atherton.

"Ultimately - and almost inevitably - the result was that the two defendants killed Mr Atherton by beating him savagely and throwing him into the River Mersey."

Mr Harrington described the lives of the two teenagers as "appalling".

He added: "If one were to search for a single adjective to describe their behaviour, it would be feral. They were wild and untamed."

The boys had been drinking and smoking cannabis when they visited Mr Atherton's flat in Howley, Warrington, on 8 May last year.

A neighbour heard them beating Mr Atherton, and invited him in, but he was led away by Dodd and Palin.

They later boasted to friends that they "winged him into the water", meaning they each held a leg and an arm then tossed him in.

Mr Justice Hodge sentenced Dodd and Palin to detention for life.

He told them: "Your conduct was reprehensible. You both treated Mr Atherton as a punch bag.

"What you did was not opportunistic. It was pre-meditated.

"It was a savage attack - cruel, brutal and vicious and on a very vulnerable man."

BBC News

Not many stories have any effect on me, but I was reading the kalima while reading that.

Crimes like that make me sick.

Why were they convicted of manslaughter?...It should have been murder. Don't tell me their defence was that they were too young.

People who commit crimes like this should be executed, they are a waste of space.

Why are they called 'feral' boys, where are their parents?