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Daily Mirror
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Graeme Murray

Dad who strangled daughter to death told police he killed her to 'wash away the shame'

A dad who drugged and strangled his daughter to death told police in Iraq he killed her to "wash away the shame".

Victim Taiba Alali had fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend.

But when she returned to Iraq to support her country's football team in the Arabian Gulf Cup in January, her family kidnapped her.

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