A British woman feared to be the victim of a so-called honour killing had a large bruise on her neck, her grieving husband said.
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“I have got the post-mortem report which clearly says she had a bruise mark – 19cm – that is around her neck”. She was due to fly back to the home she shared with her husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazam, in Dubai the following day.
Samia’s mother, in a phone conversation on July 11, asked her to come to Pakistan to see her ailing father.
Kazim, who had been staying in Dubai after his marriage with Samia, had earlier lodged a murder case against her parents, former husband Chaudhary Shakil and cousin Mobeen.
Kazam has branded her death an “honour killing”, a near daily occurrence in Pakistan in which a relative is murdered by another for bringing the family “dishonour”.
Samia’s father told the police that she died of a heart attack while her husband Mukhtar Kazim said she was killed for “honour” as her parents did not approve of her marriage with him.
Commenting anonymously on the report, a senior doctor at a government hospital in Jhelum said, “The cause of death looks like strangulation of the neck with a narrow rope-like object”.
Police also gave one family member in Bradford a harassment warning in September 2015 when Shahid, who was then living in Dubai, returned to the United Kingdom to patch things up with her family, claimed West Yorkshire police.
A hushed-up post mortem confirmed Ms Shahid had a red gash around her throat after she died.
Police have widened the scope of investigation regarding the brutal murder and it is highly likely that the actual cause of Samia’s death would be established in few days.
Shah continued and said she had spoken to the Pakistani high commissioner to the UK, Syed Ibne Abbas, about the case.
But they have now launched a murder inquiry and are investigating claims the family bribed officials to cover-up the post-mortem.
Her family said she died from natural causes.
Her father Mohammed Shahid, is in custody with an unnamed cousin, but her first husband Mohammed Shakeel, who she married in 2012 and left a year later, is on the run and a wanted man.
He told the Guardian: “I am sure my wife is killed by the family”.
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Postmortem reports of British woman Samia Shahid who was killed in Jhelum reveal that her body showed signs of resistance. I will do that if necessary’.
