Indian-origin girl killed in UK for dating Arab Muslim
London, July 25
A 19-year-old Indian-origin Muslim girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered in the UK in a suspected honour killing for dating an Arab Muslim.
The deceased was allegedly kidnapped with the another woman, bound and gagged and taken to an address in Kingston, where they were raped and she was killed on Wednesday, a UK court has heard.
Her body was found inside a £1.5 million home after the other woman in her 20s who had her throat slit alerted police from a hospital, The Mirror reported. The deceased was an aspiring make-up artist and a blog from a school media project described her as having worked in the make-up department of a thriller film.
Mujahid Arshid, 33, appeared in Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder, rape and kidnap of the woman. — PTI