The parents of Shafilea Ahmed have been found guilty of her murder.
The 17-year-old went missing from her home in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2003 and was found dead on the banks of the River Kent in Cumbria six months later.
Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, had denied her murder but the jury at Chester Crown Court returned guilty verdicts against them both.
The couple suffocated Shafilea with a plastic bag in an apparent "honour killing".
The prosecution claimed she was killed by her parents because she brought shame on the family.
Shafilea's sister Alesha, now 23, told the jury her parents pushed her on to the settee in their house and she heard her mother say "just finish it here".
The parents then forced a plastic bag into the teenager's mouth and killed her in front of their other children.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19068490#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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