Testifying from behind a screen at the Old Bailey, Ms Mahmod said, "I escaped what my sister went through, that's why she's not here".

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The court heard that her father, Mahmod Mahmod and her uncle, Ari Mahmod recruited young men from the Kurdish community to carry out the murder.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Killed for loving the wrong man

Det Ch Insp Caroline Goode, who led Scotland Yard's investigation into the 2006 "honour killing" of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod from Mitcham, south-west London, is to receive the Queen's Police Medal.

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