Ms Begum had been living with her grandmother and another of her uncles after her parents had been issued with a Forced Marriage Protection Order. Mohammed Taroos Khan denied murder but was today found guilty after a trial at Bradford Crown Court He will be sentenced tomorrow at the same court. He looked towards the public gallery, where sobs could be heard, as the verdict was announced. Khan denied murder but was today found guilty after a trial at Bradford Crown Court. He explained to the jury that this order had been in place since 2016, after he was convicted of punching his own daughter before holding a knife to her throat and threatening to 'chop her up'. She was discovered with an 11cm-long 'Bradawl' tool - a sharpened metal woodwork implement - stuck in the right side of her chest on a light industrial estate.Ī prosecutor said the defendant had been subject to a restraining order prohibiting him from attending Ms Begum's street. The Leeds Beckett University biomedical student was found dead just over a mile from her home after a major week-long police search. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, has been convicted of killing Somaiya Begum in Bradford, west Yorkshire, in July 2022. An uncle has been found guilty of murdering his 20-year-old niece in a so-called 'honour killing' before dumping her body on wasteland after she refused a forced marriage to a cousin.
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