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When a Father coerces his sons to Murder his Daughter_s Boyfriend _ An _Honor_ Killing · History Dark

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  Speaker 1: Police in Oxford have discovered the body of a man
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  Speaker 1: in a car. He has been murdered.
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  Speaker 2: This murder was horrific and it's one of those cases
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  Speaker 2: that I'll always remember. One, because of the ferocity of
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  Speaker 2: the actual attack. Secondly, the motive, why it happened.
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  Speaker 1: There are multiple stab wounds to his chest and a
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  Speaker 1: rope around his neck. The entire street is cordoned off.
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  Speaker 3: However careful a killer is, there's always the forensic potential
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  Speaker 3: to be able to catch them.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic team must act fast as the clues to
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  Speaker 1: catching the killer lie in the crime scene.
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  Speaker 2: About half past 11 at night, two police officers were
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  Speaker 2: patrolling in that car in an area called Rose Hill
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  Speaker 2: in Oxford. And they came across a car which was
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  Speaker 2: metallic green coloured, straddled across the pavement. Nose end of
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  Speaker 2: the car was actually into the road. The lights were
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  Speaker 2: on very low that the car engine was off. When
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  Speaker 2: the officers got out of their car and they approached
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  Speaker 2: the Laguna, they could see through the windscreen and through
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  Speaker 2: the open window. There was one person, young Asian man,
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  Speaker 2: about 19, early 20s, who was sat in the driver's seat,
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  Speaker 2: fatally attacked. It was ferocious. He'd been stabbed a large
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  Speaker 2: number of times in his chest area. That's when they
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  Speaker 2: secured the scene, contacted myself and other officers. You always
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  Speaker 2: think it's a young man, and you normally sort of think, well,
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  Speaker 2: what is the motive? And normally the motive would be
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  Speaker 2: maybe gang-related, maybe it was over a girlfriend, maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was over drugs. So that's perhaps the initial thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: We treat every crime scene exactly the same with utmost integrity.
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  Speaker 3: We don't discriminate about the type of crime. We're there
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  Speaker 3: to recover forensic evidence and it will take as long
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  Speaker 3: as it takes. We are completely impartial.
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  Speaker 2: Every crime scene, you only have one opportunity to capture
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  Speaker 2: and maximise the scientific evidence. I remember discussing with the
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  Speaker 2: crime scene manager what the strategy would be.
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  Speaker 3: The golden hour is where we really do assess what
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  Speaker 3: evidence we've got and where we're going to take our
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  Speaker 3: forensic investigation. A scene like this would have to be
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  Speaker 3: processed quickly but efficiently because you're in the public view.
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  Speaker 3: They would have got screening up as far as possible
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  Speaker 3: to be able to screen the car off from the
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  Speaker 3: neighboring houses. A pathologist would have been called to the scene,
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  Speaker 3: so the examination could be conducted to see the position
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  Speaker 3: of the body, any blood distribution, because as soon as
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  Speaker 3: a body like that is moved, any blood distribution on
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  Speaker 3: his clothing might be lost.
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  Speaker 2: Around his neck, there was a piece of blue-coloured nylon rope,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like it was keeping in place against the
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  Speaker 2: back of the seat. One other key line of inquiry
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  Speaker 2: was actually to identify who our victim was. Other police
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  Speaker 2: officers were doing some inquiries with the registered owner of
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  Speaker 2: the car. The registered owner of the car was visited.
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  Speaker 2: They made contact with mum, dad and the family.
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  Speaker 4: I opened the door and there was this policeman who said, Dad,
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  Speaker 4: does this car.
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  Speaker 2: Belong to you?
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  Speaker 4: I said, yes, but my boy is using it. And
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  Speaker 4: he said, I've got bad news for you. They told
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  Speaker 4: me this story. But before the sentence finished, I just collapsed.
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  Speaker 4: I shouted and my wife calmed down and I just collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: Police have confirmed the victim's identity as 19-year-old Oxford Brookes
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  Speaker 1: engineering student Arash Gulbani.
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  Speaker 4: And Arash was like an angel. Such a lovely boy.
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  Speaker 4: so loving, so kind, not just to the family. He
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  Speaker 4: was kind to everyone. Everybody adored him. And that pain,
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  Speaker 4: the only way I can describe it, you know the
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  Speaker 4: magnitude of it, is someone having open-heart surgery with no anesthetic.
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  Speaker 2: This is how it feels.
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  Speaker 4: Every time that you think about your loved one, Your
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  Speaker 4: heart will not just pop.
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  Speaker 5: Out.
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  Speaker 2: Arish was only 19 years old when he was killed.
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  Speaker 2: He'd never been in trouble before. He was still studying.
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  Speaker 2: He was an engineering student, hoping to follow his father
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  Speaker 2: into the world of engineering. He had lots and lots
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  Speaker 2: to look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: The CSIs must prioritise what evidence to harvest before they
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  Speaker 1: move the victim's body and relocate the vehicle to the
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  Speaker 1: forensic garage.
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  Speaker 2: Every crime scene, we're looking for forensic and a bit
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  Speaker 2: detailed examination. In a car, yes, you'd hope that the
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  Speaker 2: evidence would be contained there. You'd hope there'd be some
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  Speaker 2: form of cross-transference of evidence. There's a law called Locard's
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  Speaker 2: Law about the cross-contamination of evidence. Every contact leaves a trace.
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  Speaker 1: The police are hopeful... that the killer has left a
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  Speaker 1: trace at the crime scene.
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  Speaker 3: Looking for their fingerprints and DNA, their blood, any weapons.
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  Speaker 3: Finding the murder weapon within the initial crime scene is
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  Speaker 3: a great plus for us because then we can potentially
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  Speaker 3: find offenders' fingerprints and DNA on the handle and then
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  Speaker 3: obviously the victim's DNA on the blade of the knife.
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  Speaker 3: It's very unusual for an offender to leave a murder
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  Speaker 3: weapon at a crime scene. Normally, if it's a knife,
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  Speaker 3: they'll take it away and discard.
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  Speaker 2: It somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: All the drains would have been searched, people's gardens, bushes.
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  Speaker 3: In this instance, we weren't able to find any weapon
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  Speaker 3: within the vicinity of the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Before the car is relocated to the garage, the police
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  Speaker 1: turn to a new technique called fibre taping.
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  Speaker 2: They have to cover the whole of the inside of
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  Speaker 2: the car and also Arash's body with bits of... tape,
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  Speaker 2: sticky tape, which would then capture any alien fibres that
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  Speaker 2: might be there.
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  Speaker 3: The deceased had been sat in the driver's seat, but
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  Speaker 3: the offenders must have got into the car, so you
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  Speaker 3: were looking for any fibres from our suspects. We would
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  Speaker 3: always do fibre taping speculatively because we don't know, firstly,
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  Speaker 3: what offenders we have, what clothing they were wearing. Fibres
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  Speaker 3: do take a lot longer than any other trace evidence
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  Speaker 3: because it's done by a scientist looking down a microscope.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic evidence, but it is very time consuming and costly
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  Speaker 3: to do. Could take several months before you get a result.
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  Speaker 3: When we've exhausted all of the forensic techniques, fibres can
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  Speaker 3: become really important. But we also need to ensure that
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  Speaker 3: we've recovered them from the start. We would carefully remove
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  Speaker 3: the deceased from the vehicle after doing any forensic examinations
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  Speaker 3: of that body in situ. And then the body would
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  Speaker 3: be taken to the mortuary and the car would be
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  Speaker 3: recovered separately.
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  Speaker 2: At those very early stages, we know where the vehicle
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  Speaker 2: was found, where it was discovered. We had no idea
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  Speaker 2: how the attacker or attackers actually got into the car
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  Speaker 2: or how they left the car. So we had to
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  Speaker 2: keep all options open. We knocked on all the doors.
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  Speaker 2: Had anyone actually been out? Had anyone actually seen anything?
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  Speaker 2: Had anyone actually heard anything? We had nothing at all
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  Speaker 2: from the door to door. So you'll have thought that
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  Speaker 2: time at night, people might have been coming back from
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  Speaker 2: the pub. People might be going out for a walk
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  Speaker 2: or exercising their dog, but no one was there. It
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  Speaker 2: was a quiet night. It's a quiet estate.
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  Speaker 1: The detectives need to speak to the family of Arash
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  Speaker 1: to see if there is anyone who they suspect could
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  Speaker 1: have been responsible. But first, they must do the formal
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  Speaker 1: identification of his body.
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  Speaker 4: The time I first saw him in Mow Tree.
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  Speaker 2: I kissed him.
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  Speaker 4: I kissed him so many times. I couldn't believe what
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  Speaker 4: they did to my.
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  Speaker 6: Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst the forensics continue to trawl for any clues, Arash's father, Rahim,
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  Speaker 1: believes he knows who murdered his son.
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  Speaker 4: I knew straight away, and I was begging the police
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  Speaker 4: to go and arrest him.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives in Oxford are investigating the murder of 19-year-old university
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  Speaker 1: student Arash Gulbani. He's been stabbed 46 times whilst in
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  Speaker 1: his car and his neck has been tied to the headrest.
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  Speaker 1: Arash's father believes he knows who is responsible for the
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  Speaker 1: murder and has asked police to speak to the family
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  Speaker 1: of Arash's girlfriend, Mana.
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  Speaker 2: Arash's family told us about the relationship because Arash and
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  Speaker 2: Manna had been going out for about 15 months.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, Arash had a lot of friends, and she was
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  Speaker 4: the friend of a friend. And when she sees him,
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  Speaker 4: she falls in love with him.
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  Speaker 2: Manna's family didn't like the relationship, but you also heard
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  Speaker 2: from a couple of his friends that Mujibar, the eldest boy,
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  Speaker 2: and Arash didn't get on.
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  Speaker 1: Police act on this intelligence and decide to bring in
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  Speaker 1: Manna's brother, Mujibar Rahman.
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  Speaker 2: Seven o'clock in the morning, I think it was, very
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  Speaker 2: early stages, he was arrested. The whole family were woken up.
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  Speaker 2: Midgerberg was upstairs in bed. He was arrested and taken
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  Speaker 2: away to the police station, and then other officers went
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  Speaker 2: in and they searched the house. On that first particular occasion,
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  Speaker 2: we seized any clothing. He'd been on a short break
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  Speaker 2: to Spain with some friends, and he bought a number
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  Speaker 2: of knives, and they were in his bedroom, so they
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  Speaker 2: were seized as well. So when Mujibur would have been arrested,
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  Speaker 2: we would have taken a number of samples from him. DNAs,
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  Speaker 2: we would have taken fingerprints as well.
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  Speaker 5: What can you tell me about Arash or Barney's errand?
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  Speaker 5: And what are your thoughts.
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  Speaker 7: About their relationship?
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  Speaker 2: Why is that?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 8: It was forbidden for Manna to partake in an intimate relationship,
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  Speaker 8: and this is not uncommon in very strict Muslim families.
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  Speaker 8: It can be problematic when British-born children have slightly different
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  Speaker 8: experiences and ideas based on what they see around them,
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  Speaker 8: for example at school, in comparison to the expectations and
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  Speaker 8: wishes of their parents.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to help something?
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  Speaker 7: Have they got any children?
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  Speaker 9: To your knowledge, have they got any intention of starting
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  Speaker 9: a family?
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  Speaker 7: I was born in Iran. The whole country is Muslim.
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  Speaker 5: I found out that the religion wasn't for me. So
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  Speaker 5: I was atheist.
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  Speaker 7: I believe in humanity.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I taught my children.
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  Speaker 4: I told them, you know, they grow up, if they want,
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  Speaker 4: pick whatever religion they want.
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  Speaker 7: So what do the rest of the family say about
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  Speaker 7: this relationship?
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  Speaker 5: They're happy about it.
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  Speaker 8: Manner's father, Chomir, wanted Manner to have an arranged marriage,
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  Speaker 8: to be with another strict religious family. Arash was not
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  Speaker 8: brought up to be religious and live his life according
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  Speaker 8: to those principles. So therefore, this may have caused a
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  Speaker 8: rift when Chomir found out about Arash.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the violence at home, she moved out and
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  Speaker 2: she went to live with someone else.
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  Speaker 7: And prior to her running away, you told her that
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  Speaker 7: the relationship had got to stop?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And during that time, while she was out, she
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  Speaker 2: fell pregnant.
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  Speaker 4: My boy told me, and I said, OK, if that's
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  Speaker 4: the case, I'll pay for everything and you get married.
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  Speaker 4: To get them married so that her family is okay
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  Speaker 4: as well because when you get married, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 4: who as long as they love each other.
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  Speaker 2: She then had a chance meeting with mum in a
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  Speaker 2: shopping centre in Oxford. She was clearly pregnant. Mum managed
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  Speaker 2: to persuade her to come home.
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  Speaker 9: And I asked you if they'd ever discussed starting a
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  Speaker 9: family or if you had any knowledge of their plans
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  Speaker 9: to start a family.
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  Speaker 7: Do you remember that? And you said no. You didn't
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  Speaker 7: know that was the case. How come your sister's pregnant
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  Speaker 7: and other people.
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  Speaker 5: Know about it? I've made you pregnant.
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  Speaker 7: I find that difficult to believe. Have you tried to
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  Speaker 7: do anything to stop them seeing each other?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 7: Made any threats to Ash? No.
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  Speaker 1: The digital forensic team analysed the data from Arash's mobile
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  Speaker 1: phone to try and determine the time he was killed.
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  Speaker 2: We knew from looking at records from Arash that he'd
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  Speaker 2: made a couple of telephone calls to Manor during the evening,
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  Speaker 2: and the last phone call was, I'm just leaving home,
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming to pick you up now.
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  Speaker 1: Arash left his house at approximately 8.45.
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  Speaker 2: We knew it was a 10, 15-minute car journey from
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  Speaker 2: where Arash's home address is, to where Manna was. And
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  Speaker 2: he never arrived.
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  Speaker 1: 500 metres from Manna's address, Arash was found murdered in
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  Speaker 1: his car.
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  Speaker 7: Did you know he was coming round last night to
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  Speaker 7: see your sister?
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: At the forensic garage, scientists continue to search for evidence
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  Speaker 1: that links the suspect to the car.
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  Speaker 3: When we examined the vehicle for a crime scene, We
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  Speaker 3: examine it incredibly thoroughly and we will search every single
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  Speaker 3: nook and cranny of that vehicle to try and find
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  Speaker 3: any evidence in there. The problem with a vehicle as
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  Speaker 3: a crime scene is it's not a sterile environment. So
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have a lot of contamination within the
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  Speaker 3: car from family members, friends, there'll be fibres from other people,
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  Speaker 3: there'll be items dropped. And sometimes we'll find bits of
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  Speaker 3: evidence that we don't know if it's relevant or not.
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  Speaker 3: So we will take photographs of it and then we'll
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  Speaker 3: seize it. In this instance, there was a tiny little
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  Speaker 3: rivet that was found in the center console between the
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  Speaker 3: two front seats near the gear stick. I took photographs
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  Speaker 3: of it and seized that rivet just in case it.
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  Speaker 2: Might be linked to something.
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  Speaker 3: The outside of a car is a very good surface
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  Speaker 3: for fingerprinting because it's smooth and it's shiny and there's
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  Speaker 3: lots of glass on the windows. then there's a problem
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  Speaker 3: because even if you find an offender's fingerprint, it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean to say that they've actually committed the crime because
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  Speaker 3: they could have just said that they'd walked past the
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  Speaker 3: vehicle in the street and accidentally touched it. And it's
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  Speaker 3: very difficult for us to prove otherwise. Any fingerprints that
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  Speaker 3: we found on the inside of the window, we would
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  Speaker 3: prioritise those. There was a lot of blood in the
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  Speaker 3: vehicle and there's a lot of different areas of blood distribution.
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  Speaker 3: Because of the confined space of the car and the
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  Speaker 3: number of stab wounds that Arash had received, we would
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  Speaker 3: have been confident that the offender's clothing would be covered
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  Speaker 3: in blood. We would sample lots of different areas to
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  Speaker 3: try and ascertain who the blood belongs to, because in
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  Speaker 3: a forensic attack where someone's been stabbed 40 plus times,
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  Speaker 3: it's quite likely that they may well have cut themselves
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  Speaker 3: in the process.
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  Speaker 1: So we're looking for.
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  Speaker 3: That one bit of blood that might be from one
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  Speaker 3: of the offenders.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic team extracts several fingerprints and swabs, which are
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  Speaker 1: sent away for comparison against the national databases. The rope
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  Speaker 1: from Arish's neck is also analysed for any trace evidence.
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  Speaker 3: If someone's sat in the back of the vehicle and
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  Speaker 3: is restraining the victim, you get a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 3: trying to hold the person in place. probably get really
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  Speaker 3: good DNA on the sections of the rope he or
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  Speaker 3: she was holding from the skin cells from somebody's hand
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  Speaker 3: and from the sweat as well.
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  Speaker 1: The scientists fail to raise a DNA profile and the
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  Speaker 1: pathologist's report clarifies the rope's involvement in the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Pathologists say it was put on properly post-death, certainly wasn't
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  Speaker 2: used to restrain him and it didn't cause his death.
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  Speaker 2: There was no ligature marks there as well.
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  Speaker 1: The custody clock is ticking. and the time they can
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  Speaker 1: keep Mujibar is running out.
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  Speaker 7: The murder took place last night. I'm now going to
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  Speaker 7: ask you to give me an account of your movements
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  Speaker 7: last night.
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  Speaker 5: I fell asleep about 8 o'clock, so I was really ready.
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  Speaker 5: Then 1 o'clock, got up, getting ready to go out.
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  Speaker 5: I left my house about 12 o'clock, caught the bus
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  Speaker 5: just after half past, into town.
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  Speaker 2: He was wearing a nice white-coloured shirt, black-coloured trousers. He
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  Speaker 2: was very relaxed, clearly not emotional. He hadn't shown that
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  Speaker 2: he'd been involved in the murder on that particular evening.
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  Speaker 2: From there, the bus, he went into the town centre.
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  Speaker 2: We then saw what stop he got off at. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: we've got CCTV in the town centre of him going,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: approaching the cash point and taking money out. We're able
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: to get records from the bank how much money he
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: withdrew and what time he withdrew that money, which corresponds
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  Speaker 2: with the CCTV. CCTV would then show him walking down
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  Speaker 2: through the town centre. There's more CCTV and images of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: him inside these particular venues. Yes, it's packed and it's crowded,
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  Speaker 2: but you can still pick him out and you can
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  Speaker 2: still say that he is there to the early hours
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  Speaker 2: of the morning. He then went for something to eat
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: before jumping on a taxi and then returned home at
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the early hours of the morning, just gone three o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: And who's at home when you get in?
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  Speaker 5: My mum and dad were downstairs.
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  Speaker 7: My little brother was.
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  Speaker 5: We shared the same room. He was asleep.
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  Speaker 7: Did you speak to your mum and dad before you
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  Speaker 7: went upstairs? Before you went to bed?
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  Speaker 5: No, not really. Because they were religious. On Sky, it
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  Speaker 5: was like this religious channel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And they were watching that.
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  Speaker 7: What was it they were watching then, didn't they?
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  Speaker 5: It's just news sites. Because they have to like, they
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: pray all the time. Oh yeah, I was in the room, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Got a dream.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to eat, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 7: And the next thing is, from what your children said,
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  Speaker 7: you remember being woken up because the police were at
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  Speaker 7: the door?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. so he was arrested within four hours of coming
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  Speaker 2: back home.
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  Speaker 1: The weapons and clothing seized when Mujibar was arrested had
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: been analyzed to see if they're linked to the crime scene.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: The weapons were shown to the pathologist. There was nothing
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: there that the pathologist suspected to be the murder weapon.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: His home as well. There was nothing that was obviously bloodstained.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: There are no positive matches to Mujibar from the fingerprints
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and blood samples extracted from inside the car.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It's rare not to have forensic evidence, but there are
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: occasions you do get knockbacks.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: It might be that the offender has been at the
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: crime scene but just not left any forensic evidence. You
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: must not get disheartened by it and continue to search.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: We potentially need to look down other routes to try
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: and link a possible offender to the crime scene.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: At this very early stage, yes, we knew that he
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: didn't approve the relationship. Yes, we knew that he didn't
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: approve of Arash. Yet we had no evidence to link
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: him to the crime. In fact, we had from him
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: his movements, which were backed up by CCTV. So there
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: was no option other than to release him and bail
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: him back to the family home.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: After the interview, they let them go. but they said
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: they haven't got solid.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Evidence.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: For the first three days, I just didn't know what's
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: going on in the vault. I was just collapsing every time.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I developed a lot of problems, heart palpitations and blood pressure.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And all sorts.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: If a suspect's bailed, it gives us more time to
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: be able to find more evidence to prove or disprove
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: their involvement in the crime scene.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The setback is short-lived, as Steve and his team are
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: handed a treasure trove of evidence.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: The carrier bag was clearly the breakthrough that we needed.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: That bag was the goodie bag which contained the majority
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: of the evidence.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Thames Valley Police are investigating the murder of 19-year-old Oxford
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Brookes University student Arash Gulbani. Their prime suspect, Mujibar Rahman,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: is the brother of Arash's pregnant girlfriend, Mana. When in custody,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he gave the police a detailed account of his movements
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the night Arash was killed, which were corroborated by digital forensics.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: He was released on bail. The police need to find
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: more evidence. Detectives continue with the door-to-door inquiries and Steve
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is still searching for the murder weapon. The pathologist report
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: sheds light on what may have occurred.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: When we did the post-mortem examination, there were 46 wounds,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: all mainly around the chest area. We know it was
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a single-bladed weapon and it was probably about six, seven
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: centimetres long. There were no defense wounds. And there's a
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: suggestion at quite an early stage, perhaps that maybe someone's
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: in the back used a seatbelt to restrain Arash by
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: someone else attacking him.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: The pathologist also made a discovery and alerted the investigation team.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Inside his chest pocket of his shirt, there was a
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: small piece of metal, which was the other half of
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the rivet, the one that was found in the car.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Perhaps the male and the female halves had come detached.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: It wasn't immediately obvious what that rivet related to. It
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: was kept and put to one side.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: As the detectives chase all the lines of inquiry, Arash's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: family continue to grieve.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I hired a hole for the wedding, which I had
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: to use it for his funeral. My oldest son, everybody
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: loved him. And even shows in his funeral, even though
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: it was short notice.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: There was.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Over 250 people turned up. My life is gone. My
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: family's life is gone. We can't enjoy living. We can't
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: have it. Because he was a lovable child. And that's
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: why it doubles the pain.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: The detectives have exhausted all leads and are struggling to
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: prove that Mujibar Rahman was involved. But they're about to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: be handed a massive piece of evidence that could help
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: them catch the killer.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: On Tuesday lunchtime, two days later, two council workers were
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: in an area called Rhymers Lane and they saw a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: red-coloured car pull up, the driver jump out and throw
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: something over into the allotment. Someone they thought was fly-tipping.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: They weren't close enough that they could get a good,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: proper description of the driver, but they went and examined
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: the bag... that had been thrown over, they picked it
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: up and looked inside and they then took it to
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the police station. And the person at the front counter
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: of the police station knew of the murder and actually
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: telephoned the incident room to let us know. I can
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: always remember at that particular lunchtime, being in the incident
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: room and we were briefing and I think we were
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: actually talking about forensics at that particular time. That was
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: clearly the breakthrough that we needed and wanted for this
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: particular case. It was a Tesco's carrier bag. Inside was
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: a baseball cap. a blue Nike-colored top, a pair of
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: black heavy-duty gloves. There was also a knife. Inside was
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: a broken butterfly knife. Could we identify the knife as
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: being used in this particular attack and the knife that
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: was used to kill Arash? It may contain DNA or
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: blood from Arash. It may also contain DNA fingerprints from
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the attacker.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Finding the murder weapon is a massive boost to any
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: crime scene manager or CSI, because then we can potentially
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: find offenders' fingerprints and DNA on their handle, and then
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: obviously the victim's DNA on the blade of the knife.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: So just that small amount of evidence might be enough
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: to charge the offender with the murder of Arash Gulbani.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: The butterfly knife recovered from the carrier bag is sent
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to the lab for tests.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: When the knife was examined, they could see that inside
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the knife was blood. The blood was identified as belonging
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: to Arash. The knife itself has been bent. The ferocity
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of the attack, the force that was used, the knife
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: probably hit the sternum or one of the other bones
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: in Arash's body and twisted. So the rivet that held
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the blade in place onto the handles had snapped. One
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: part had fallen into Arash's shirt pocket while he sat
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: in the driver's seat, and the other half had fallen
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: down to his left-hand side near to the handbrake area.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Police can confirm they have the murder weapon by connecting
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the knife to the victim and the crime scene. They
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: must now analyse the other items discarded in the carrier bag.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: The blue Nike top on there was actually found some
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: probably cast-off blood. It was identified as being Arash's blood.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Baseball caps are a really good source of DNA. The
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: really good area is around the sweatband, so... The sweat
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: from your forehead will be transferred onto the band of
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: the baseball cap. You can get hairs inside them. The
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: only problem with the hairs is you don't often get
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the hair root. It's normally like a broken hair inside
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the cap. And that's a really good source of DNA.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: We were able to DNA profile the baseball cap and
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: come up with an offender's name from the DNA database.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: The baseball cap, when that was examined by the scientist,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the main DNA contributor for the inside of the baseball
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: cap was Mujibur.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: With Mujibar's DNA found on the baseball cap in the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: same bag as the murder weapon, police re-arrest him on
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: suspicion of murder.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: We've got an Adidas baseball cap. It's got your DNA
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: within it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: To me, that indicates that you may have had someone involved.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: He again stuck to his account, his story.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: The hat, I don't know, because it was an old
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: hat I never wore. I never wore it. I can't
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: remember if I lost it or if someone's taken it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: He couldn't actually explain as to how his DNA was
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: on that particular hat. We've got a red car, an
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: old-style Toyota that's seen pull up.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Your father owns a red Toyota car.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: This is now painting a real picture to us that
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: your family had serious involvement.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: In Dad was arrested on suspicion of being involved in
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: the murder, also for disposing of the evidence as well. Chomir, again,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: he was extensively interviewed by police officers with an interpreter.
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: Can you give me any explanation how these items ended
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: up here on this line?
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know who you're talking about.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: He said, yes, he would have used Rhymers Lane at
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: that particular day, about that particular time. But he denied stopping,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: he denied throwing anything over the fence.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: The forensic scientists have located a second DNA profile on
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the baseball cap. It belongs to Chomir Ali.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Can you explain that?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Back at the lab, the tests continue.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Externally, on the gloves there would have been blood. That
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: blood was Arash's blood. So again, it links the gloves
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: to our crime scene and to the murder of Arash.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: When the scientists looked at the gloves in detail, they
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: did find a very small cut on one of the fingers.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: When turned inside out, they found some blood staining inside
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: the glove. When he tested that bloodstain in, he came
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: back as it was not belonging to Arash. The attacker
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: had cut himself. Because of the ferocity of the attack,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: the knife we know broke because two halves of the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: rivets were left. So the blade probably went between the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: fingers of the attacker, went through the glove, cut the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: attacker's hand, and then the attacker has actually bled inside
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the glove himself.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: This third DNA profile was also found on the baseball cap.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: as well as on the Nike top that was covered
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: in Arash's blood.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: We took a number of samples from all family members,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: and then we were shocked to find out that actually
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: it was the younger brother, Mamnoor, who was only 15
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: years old. It was his blood, his DNA profile, that
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: was in that glove. Mamnoor was arrested, 15 years old.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: He had a solicitor. He had an appropriate adult to
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: look after him as well.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: I don't know what that sounds.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Inside the glove is Mamnur's blood. So that then suggests
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to us that actually Mamnur was sat in the passenger
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: seat and because there were no defence wounds on Arash,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: it was probably Mujibur, the older, the stronger brother, who
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: was in the rear using the seatbelt to restrain Arash
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: to the seat whilst Mamnur was Friends of Lee stabbed
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: him 46 times. By the time we spoke to Mam
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Noor and interviewed him, there was no obvious sign of
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: any cut. But he did actually say that he had
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a small cut there and he remembers getting a plaster.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: But he denied any involvement in the murder.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: How well did you get on with Alice? He was
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: a friend of mine. He used to go to my school.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: But he's quite a bit older than you, isn't he?
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: He was in sixth grade, he worked. We just used
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: to chat to each other a lot every day. What
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: about Manna, your sister? How do you get on with her?
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Do you know her personally? Did she share her feelings
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: for Arash with you?
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, she just loved him.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: He was the one that actually appeared to approve of
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the relationship and be supportive of Manna and actually talk
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: to Arash.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: I would say that Manna moved out because of her
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: relationship with Arash and her parents didn't approve.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Why didn't they approve of that? They went to it together.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: And that's part of the Muslim faith, isn't it? When
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: she came back, what did she tell the family? 13
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: minutes and 15 seconds. She said she was pregnant a
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: few months earlier. We knew that. 13 minutes and 15 seconds.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: And what about you? Yeah, I took it because.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: 13 minutes exactly.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: She basically just came home. So, I don't have a problem.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Man Moore cannot account for why his DNA was found
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: in the glove and the baseball cap. Police now confront
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: him about the blood-covered Nike top, which also has his
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: DNA on it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: Can you give me an explanation for that?
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Mm-mm.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The forensic evidence against Mujibar and Manmore is overwhelming, and
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: police believe their father, Chomir Ali, was more involved than
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: just disposing of the evidence.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: We spoke quite extensively about the case with the Crown
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Prosecution Service. And together we thought we had a strong
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: case against Dad for coercing and ordering his two boys
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: to actually go out and to kill Arash because he
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: didn't approve of the relationship.
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: I believe that the murder of Arash was a round
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: of disarmament killings.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: In Oxfordshire, forensics have linked 44-year-old waiter Chomir Ali and
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: his two sons, Mujibar, 18, and Manmore, 15, to the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: murder of 19-year-old university student Arash Gulbani. The detectives believe
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the motive behind the murder was the fact Arash was
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: in a relationship with Chomir's daughter, Mana, who had become pregnant.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Day one. This was a murder investigation of a young man,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and it could have been drugs, women, gang-related. It was
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: actually nothing to do with that. This actually turned out
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: to be an honour killing.
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: Just the fact your daughter has left home and has
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: become pregnant, does that not, just that fact, bring dishonour
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: upon you?
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: don't know.
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: When a family member carries out an action that is
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: forbidden or frowned upon, this can tarnish the family reputation
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: and it follows that family members may seek revenge by
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: killing another person. There's the idea that death can expunge
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: a stain. If they don't carry out the action to
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: rectify the honour on the family, they may feel fearful
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: of God and the consequences in their later life.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: We've got two young boys, 18 and 15, who've been
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: persuaded by dad to actually go out and to kill Arash,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the boyfriend, fiance, of their daughter and sister. Honor killings
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: at this particular time in 2004, fairly new. We spoke
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: to a number of organizations. We spoke to a number
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: of police officers, not just from this force, but other
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: forces in London, and asked them about their experiences and
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: their knowledge of honor killings, why they happen, It says that.
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: Honor killing is a tradition and practice from the subcontinent
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: that's been practiced for many centuries.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: And it says that the custom.
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: Gives parents, brothers, and other relatives the right to kill
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: women in their family or.
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: Tribe on suspicion of sexual relations with a man occurring
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: outside marriage.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: From speaking to those sorts of people, they always said,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: keep an open mind. There's always more than one person
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: potentially involved.
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: Part of the research that's been done is that quite often,
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: the youngest member of the family becomes selected by the father,
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: the older brother, whoever.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: To do the killing.
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: When that person is of a young age, the penalty
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: that they may receive is going to be very much
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: less substantial than.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Some of the others.
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: Often in very strict Muslim families, children or anybody that's
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: younger than the patriarch is expected to obey instructions and
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: to follow behaviours in accordance with their wishes.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: But how can you persuade a 15-year-old boy to actually
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: go out and take someone's life?
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: The honour is usually held or commanded by the patriarch
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: of the family. The patriarch in this particular case was Chomir.
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: from a criminological point of view, they believe that their
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: actions are absolutely correct and have, in fact, been directed
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: from God to behave in such a way.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: 139 minutes. 139 minutes.
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: Stabbing through the heart may be poetic or meaningful. Multiple
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: stabbings may indicate that they have carried out a thorough
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: job through God's will or God's request to carry out
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: those actions.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: When Arash was found, he was in the driver's seat
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: and he had a blue piece of nylon rope around
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: his neck.
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: Now, that's been again described as something that could be
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: for a display.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: In purpose.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: In other words to keep the body upright.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: So he wouldn't be seeing exactly what happened to him.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: Which again fits in with when we said that he
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: was stabbed numerous times in.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: The heart to drain the love for him. This honour
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: killing thing comes back.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: The rope demonstrates an ultimate control and victory over Arash
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: in leaving him on display and an act of humiliation
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: for him.
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: Is it not right that with Arash now being killed,
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: your honour has been restored? And then, to protect your boys,
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: you decided to get rid of your property in Randall's land.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: And you've disposed of all these items. You've got rid
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: of them. Someone saw that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: Research with offenders who take part in honor-related violence or
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: honor killings shows that they are not necessarily concerned or
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: worried about capture, conviction, time spent in prison, as long
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: as they have achieved what they sought out to do,
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: which they believe is a direction from God to behave
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: in a certain way to protect the other members of
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: their family.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: When the court case was going on, 2005, And I
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: sent a message with Leah as an officer to say that,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: you know, I don't mind to keep the baby. And
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: within 24 hours, they come back and said, there is
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: no baby. I said, what do you mean there's no baby?
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: And they said, yeah, she terminated it.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: And then the final thing was for Mena to have
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: an abortion.
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: The two things that brought dishonor onto a family have
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: now gone, haven't they?
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: The rash and the baby.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: November 2005, the case was heard at Oxford Crown Court.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: All three of them denied the murder investigation. Throughout this
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: whole investigation and when it came to court, there was
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: never any emotion from Dad or from any of the boys.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: After a four-week trial the verdicts are in, all three
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: suspects were found guilty of murder and given life sentences.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Mammoor Rahman must serve a minimum of 14 years. Mohammed
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Mujibar Rahman was jailed for life and must serve a
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: minimum of 16 years. The jury agreed that Chomir Ali
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  Speaker 1: convinced his two sons to kill Arash to restore the
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  Speaker 1: family's honour. He was given a life sentence with a
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  Speaker 1: minimum of 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: He was in control of his sons, without doubt. He
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  Speaker 2: was the one that ordered them to go out on
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  Speaker 2: that particular night to kill Arash.
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  Speaker 6: As the guilty verdicts were read out, Mr Ghorbani Zarin's
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  Speaker 6: father shouted yes loudly and raised his fist. The three
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  Speaker 6: men in the dock remained completely impassive. Mamnool's counsel later
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  Speaker 6: told the judge her young client was almost in denial
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  Speaker 6: about the enormity of his situation. Today, the murdered man's
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  Speaker 6: family said justice had.
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  Speaker 1: Been served, but they could not bring their son back.
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  Speaker 2: It's always important to get justice for Arash, for his mum, dad. brothers,
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  Speaker 2: sisters they're constantly missing their son or their brother he
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  Speaker 2: had a baby on the way he had everything to
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  Speaker 2: look forward to this murder was horrific and it's one
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  Speaker 2: of those cases that I'll always remember one because of
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  Speaker 2: the ferocity of the actual attack secondly also the motive
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  Speaker 2: why it happened and he got killed just because he
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  Speaker 2: had a relationship with Manna which wasn't approved by her
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  Speaker 2: family Since then, of course, there's been lots of changes
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  Speaker 2: in both policing, but also with schools and other agencies
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  Speaker 2: as well. We encourage anyone who is in a violent
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  Speaker 2: relationship or being coerced to do something they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to do to contact police or to contact social services
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  Speaker 2: or schools, just let someone know. There is always someone
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  Speaker 2: there that will listen and there's always someone there that
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  Speaker 2: would help you.
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  Speaker 4: Now these youngsters, they are more aware of the situation.
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  Speaker 4: Still it's not enough because they've taken an innocent life.
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  Speaker 4: The punishment wasn't severe enough. That's what's hurting because we've
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  Speaker 4: lost our Arash. We're going to carry this pain to
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  Speaker 4: the day we die.