(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece had no motive, unlike her father who was “humiliated” after her failed forced marriage, a jury has heard.
Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, in June 2022.
The 20-year-old student’s body was found on waste ground in the city, 11 days after she went missing.
Mr Khan’s barrister told Bradford Crown Court the prosecution had not shown why his client would have killed her.
Zafar Ali KC reminded the jurors that Miss Begum’s father — the defendant’s brother, Mohammed Yaseen Khan — had been made subject to a forced marriage protection order after he tried to make his daughter marry her cousin in Pakistan when she was 16 years old.
