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Shafilea Ahmed: Father 'slapped daughter twice'
Published: 20th Jul 2012 11:52:14
The mother of Shafilea Ahmed has told a court that she saw her husband attack their daughter on the night she disappeared.
Farzana Ahmed, 49, and her husband Iftikhar, 52, both deny murdering the 17-year-old at their Warrington home.
Describing the night of 11 September 2003, Mrs Ahmed told Chester Crown Court: "My husband was hitting Shafilea. He slapped her twice".
Shafilea's body was found in Cumbria in February 2004.
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BBC News, 2012. Shafilea Ahmed: Father 'slapped daughter twice'. [Online] (Updated 20 Jul 2012)Available at: http://www.manchesterwired.co.uk/news.php/1441655-Shafilea-Ahmed-Father-slapped-daughter-twice [Accessed 18th May 2013]
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