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I'm Sarruti. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded. In September 2003, 17-year-old

Shafelia Armed disappeared, seemingly from her family home in Warrington,

Northwest England. Shafelia was the eldest of five children, four girls and one

boy born to British Pakistani parents, Iftica and Fasana Armed. She was a

bright and ambitious girl who worked incredibly hard at school, had a part-time

job, had a good group of friends and dreamt of one day becoming a barrister.

To the outside world, Shafelia would have seemed like the perfect daughter but

not to Iftica and Fasana. To them, Shafelia was a serious problem. Today we're

talking about an issue that is personally for me incredibly near to my heart,

the idea of honour-based violence and murder. And I guess we could call it a

cultural phenomenon that we see predominantly in South Asian and Middle East in

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