UK: Kurdish man sentenced to 20 years for 'honor killing' of daughter

The father of a Kurdish woman tortured, raped and murdered in a "barbaric and callous" honor killing in Britain was jailed for at least 20 years on Friday. Banaz Mahmod's father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and her uncle Ari Mahmod, 51, who received a 23-year minimum sentence, were found guilty of murder last month.

A third man, Mohamad Hama, 31, pleaded guilty to murder and will spend at least 17 years in jail. The 20-year-old was raped and garrotted during an ordeal lasting more than 2-1/2 hours at her family home in south London last year. (Reuters)