{"id":535,"date":"2014-03-11T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T11:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2014-03-09T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:14:41","slug":"22-reports-of-honour-based-violence-and-forced-marriage-cases-in-bournemouth-and-poole-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/22-reports-of-honour-based-violence-and-forced-marriage-cases-in-bournemouth-and-poole-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"22 reports of honour-based violence and forced marriage cases in Bournemouth and Poole last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOUR-BASED violence and forced marriage cases were reported 22 times in Bournemouth &amp; Poole last year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorset.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorset Police<\/a>\u00a0have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>This information has been released to coincide with a conference taking place at Salterns Hotel, Poole, on Thursday, marking International Women\u2019s Day.\u00a0Among those set to speak at the conference, organised by Safer Poole Partnership to highlight the spectre of honour-based violence and forced marriage, is Jasvinder Sanghera \u2013 founder of national charity Karma Nirvana \u2013 and the Metropolitan Police\u2019s Detective Inspector Clive Driscoll.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Driscoll led the inquiry into the honour killing of Surjit Athwal, which took place in India in 1998. To date, those responsible for committing the actual killing have evaded justice \u2013 although Surjit\u2019s husband and mother-in-law were jailed in 2007 for ordering the murder.\u00a0This was the first UK conviction for an honour killing where no body was ever recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Dorset Police\u2019s serious crimes manager Detective Chief Inspector Jez Noyce, and the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for Wessex, John Montague, will also speak at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bournemouthecho.co.uk\/news\/11057983.22_reports_of_honour_based_violence_and_forced_marriage_cases_in_Bournemouth_and_Poole_last_year\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOUR-BASED violence and forced marriage cases were reported 22 times in Bournemouth &amp; Poole last year,\u00a0Dorset Police\u00a0have confirmed. This information has been released to coincide with a conference taking place at Salterns Hotel, Poole, on Thursday, marking International Women\u2019s Day.\u00a0Among those set to speak at the conference, organised by Safer Poole Partnership to highlight the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,53,4,10],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}