The horrific honour killing of Shafilea Ahmed is to come under the spotlight again more than 21 years after she died.
The teenager was murdered in 2003 but it took eight years and a robbery at the family home before her killers were brought to justice.
Now an hour-long documentary, A Murder Without Honour, on ITV on Tuesday at 9pm will examine the crime in detail as part of ITV’s True Crime Presents series.
We take a look at a murder that shocked a nation and a young teenager whose life was cut short so tragically.
Shafilea Ahmed was a bright 17-year-old girl who was studying for her A-levels and had hopes of becoming a lawyer.
Born on 14 July 1986 in Bradford, she grew up in Warrington, Cheshire, where she suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her parents.
The eldest of five children, she had three sisters and a brother.
She first came to the attention of the authorities at the age of 10, when she and her sister Alesha briefly went missing.
By year nine of secondary school, the teenager was regularly turning up late to school.
When questioned about it by school staff, the teen said her parents were forcing her to do housework and domestic chores.
By this time, Shafilea’s desire to live a westernised teenager’s life was causing considerable conflict at home.
In Year 11, teachers and friends reported that Shafilea would attend school crying, saying her mother would slap her and throw a slipper at her.
In May 2002, social services were alerted when Mrs Ahmed and her five children were reportedly thrown out of the family home by her husband.
That same summer, Shafilea had started to have relationships with boys of which her strict Muslim family disapproved.
She started sixth form in September 2002 but soon would be absent from school for long periods of time.
In October 2000, she appeared in school with a cut lip and injuries to her neck which she had received from her father as her mother held her down.
Between November 2002 and January 2003, she was subjected to an increasing number of assaults and in February 2003 she ran away from home asking social services to to find her accommodation.
However, on 10 February that year she was snatched on the street by her father and a few weeks later was dispatched on a plane to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
During the trip, she drank bleach in protest at the forced marriage and her condition deteriorated so she was “no longer wanted as a bride”.
She returned to the UK and spent eight weeks in hospital as a result of the damage to her throat.
When she was discharged, she got a job in telesales and enrolled at college in September 2003.
But the same month, she went missing and when the alarm was eventually raised by her teachers a nationwide hunt began.
In February 2004, Shafilea’s dismembered remains were found on a flooded bank of the river Kent in Sedgwick, Cumbria, 70 miles away from her home in Warrington.
A police appeal was launched to help find Shafilea Ahmed after she disappeared (Photo: Phil Noble/PA)Why did Shafilea Ahmed’s parents kill her?
Shafilea’s parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed were briefly arrested along with other members of her family after the teen went missing but they were then released without charge.
At an inquest into the teenager’s death in 2008, a coroner ruled she had been unlawfully killed.
And then in August 2010, Shafilea’s sister Alesha was arrested after an armed robbery at the family home. In the police interview, Alesha admitted she and her siblings had witnessed her parents murder Shafilea.
Iftikhar, a taxi driver, and Farzana, a housewife, were rearrested in September 2010 and a year later were charged with her murder.
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