{"id":1394,"date":"2017-08-31T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2017-08-31T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:30:45","slug":"how-a-nod-betrayed-dads-guilt-over-honour-killing-of-shafilea-ahmed-while-his-brutal-wife-silently-controlled-their-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/how-a-nod-betrayed-dads-guilt-over-honour-killing-of-shafilea-ahmed-while-his-brutal-wife-silently-controlled-their-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"How a nod betrayed dad&#8217;s guilt over honour killing of Shafilea Ahmed while his &#8220;brutal&#8221; wife silently controlled their deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>t was a heartbreaking moment &#8211; a mother and father being forced to deny on television that they had anything to do with the disappearance and murder of their 17-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>As they were repeatedly asked about the disappearance of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/shafilea-ahmed\" data-action=\"shafilea-ahmed\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"2\">Shafilea Ahmed<\/a>\u00a0, Iftikhar and Farzana wiped away tears and resolutely told television cameras they were being victimised and stereotyped because of their religion.<\/p>\n<p>And asked again during a television interview, if they had killed their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/teenagers\" data-action=\"teenagers\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"1\">teenage<\/a>\u00a0daughter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/iftikhar-ahmed\" data-action=\"iftikhar-ahmed\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"1\">Iftikhar<\/a>replied with an emphatic &#8216;never&#8217; as his wife sat there silent, presumably overcome by the grief of losing her eldest child.<\/p>\n<p>But there was one problem. As he protested their innocence on camera there was something Iftikhar could not hide &#8211; an almost imperceptible nod as he said &#8220;never&#8221; &#8211; his body language betraying the truth he and his wife had worked so hard to hide.<\/p>\n<p>And while Farzana sat silently, motionless, her arms folded and her face impassive, even she could not control every movement. A sideways glance at her husband as he answered the question &#8216;did you kill her?&#8217; has led to the claim that she may have been the &#8220;architect&#8221; of their years of deception, by experts analysing their words and movements for the next episode of Faking It: Tears of a Crime on Investigation Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/how-nod-betrayed-dads-guilt-11074763<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t was a heartbreaking moment &#8211; a mother and father being forced to deny on television that they had anything to do with the disappearance and murder of their 17-year-old daughter. As they were repeatedly asked about the disappearance of\u00a0Shafilea Ahmed\u00a0, Iftikhar and Farzana wiped away tears and resolutely told television cameras they were being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honour-killings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}