'Westernised' girl killed by Muslim father
A Muslim teenage girl murdered in an "honour killing" was the victim of a clash of cultures, police said today.
Strict Kurdish Muslim Abdalla Yones cut the throat of his 16-year-old daughter Heshu because he believed she had become too westernised.
He was jailed for life today after admitting the murder of A-level student Heshu, who had planned to run away from home after starting a relationship with an 18-year-old Lebanese Christian boy.
Police said she appeared to have been the victim of serious domestic violence before the murder.
And they revealed a letter which Heshu wrote to her parents, apparently just days before she planned to run away.
It read: "Bye Dad, sorry I was so much trouble.
"Me and you will probably never understand each other, but I'm sorry I wasn't what you wanted, but there's some things you can't change.
"Hey, for an older man you have a good strong
punch and kick.
"I hope you enjoyed testing your strength on me, it was fun being on the receiving end. Well done."
Yones, 48, a political refugee who had fled the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq 10 years ago, was the first person to plead guilty to murder in a so-called honour killing case.
Police believe there were 12 such killings in Britain last year, including six in London, and have vowed to investigate other members of the community who may have colluded to help cover up the death.
Yones tried to kill himself immediately after the murder by cutting his own throat and then throwing himself from a third floor balcony at the family home in Acton, west London, on October 12 last year.
He initially claimed members of al Qaida had broken into his home, killed his daughter and attacked him before throwing him over the balcony.
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