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Belfast: Detective Concerned Over Unsolved Potential “Honor Killing” of Shafilea Ahmed

Belfast Telegraph: “Maddie investigator Dave Edgar recalls the horrific cases that still haunt him”
— “Shafilea Ahmed, 17, who vanished from her home in Warrington, Cheshire on September 11 2003”
— “Dave suspected an ‘honour killing’ but the killer or killers were never brought to justice.
— “A coroner ruled last year that Shafilea was murdered after rejecting an arranged marriage.
— “Before her death, Shafilea drank bleach in an act of self-harm.
— “Dave said: ‘It’s the one that got away for me, and the one I’ll always be bitter about.'”
— “‘It was horrific to find her body so badly decomposed in that river. Honour killings these days are getting out of control.'”