An uncle has been found guilty of murdering his niece in an “honour killing” after she refused to take part in a forced marriage. Biomedical student Somaiya Begum, 20, was found dead just over a mile from her home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, last July after a major week-long police search.
She was discovered with an 11cm-long 'Bradawl' tool - a sharpened metal woodwork implement - stuck in the right side of her chest on an industrial estate. Her uncle, Mohammed Taroos Khan, 52, denied murder but was found guilty on Tuesday after a trial at Bradford Crown Court. He will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Somaiya had been living with her grandmother and another uncle at the time of her death due to a court-mandated Forced Marriage Protection Order, the court heard. Prosecutors said Khan had cut a set of keys to the three-bedroom house on June 25 last year before killing Somaiya in a "traumatic" attack.
