A young Pakistani woman endured a brutal, gruesome and horrific death to preserve the honor of her family. Excuse me for not seeing anything honorable in the primitive practice.
From Middle East Times:
LONDON -- The brother and cousin of a Pakistani victim of a so-called honor killing in Britain were given life sentences on Friday for her "barbaric" murder.Worth noting is that Samaira Nazir's father was also implicated in her murder, however, he fled Britain for Pakistan and disappeared.
Samaira Nazir, 25, a recruitment consultant, was stabbed to death in April last year after her family was angered by her intention to marry Salman Mohammed, an Afghan asylum seeker.
She was stabbed 18 times at the family home in West London by her brother Azhar Nazir, 30, and cousin Imran Mohammed, 17, the two men's trial was told. Her throat was also slashed.
Nazir, a greengrocer, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years, while Mohammed is to remain behind bars indefinitely with a minimum of 10 years.
I confess to a general unfamiliarity with the British justice system, however, based on the aforementioned, it appears that life in prison includes sentences of 10 years, 20 years and, presumably, anything in between.
Well, shucks! This means that cousin Imran Mohammed could easily do his ten years, get out and commit another honor killing before he reaches 30 years of age. And, if he only gets ten years for every "life in prison" sentence, he'll be able to commit at least five additional honor killings before he dies of old age.
Consequently, I believe that the British definition of 'life in prison' is way too loosey-goosey to be meaningful. After all, if a person can be sentenced to life and get out after only ten years, than it's reasonable to assume that a person could be sentenced to life in prison with the minimum set at eight or five or two years. I expect it's even possible to impose a life sentence and set the minimum at only 30 days.
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