Woman shares heartbreaking tale of her aunt who was murdered by her husband despite her repeatedly reporting abuse
Mumtahina Janat, was branded a "silly woman" by a judge for telling him she believed her husband would kill her one day, help us stop this abuse by supporting our campaign
A WOMAN has shared the heart-breaking story of her aunt who was brutally murdered by her abusive husband.
In an emotional video Onjali Rauf talks about the tragic death of her family member despite her repeated attempts to warn the authorities she was being abused.
Astonishingly during one hearing Onjali claims her aunt, Mumtahina Janat, was branded a "silly woman" by a judge for telling him she believed her husband would kill her one day.
The mum-of-two was found strangled to death at her home in East London in 2011.
The 29-year-old's body was discovered by police at around 1pm, sprawled out on the bedroom floor with a scarf wrapped tightly around her throat.
A postmortem would later reveal the cause of death to be compression of the neck and asphyxia.
Her husband, Abdul Kadir was charged with her murder the very next day.
It would later take a jury less than one hour to find the 45-year-old guilty of the murder after they dismissed his claims that she perished accidentally following a row.
In a deeply moving video, Onjali recounts her aunt's story and her repeated attempts to get the authorities to believe she was being abused.
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But the fact that the instances were reported to various different agencies meant that the instances were never correlated into a consistent case.
She went on: "She was going through a divorce and she wanted everything to be final and her husband not to be able to come to the house anymore.
"In one case the judge asked her, 'why are you so afraid of this man?' He's going to anger management and doing everything that he's been told to do.'
"She said, 'because I know that he's not like that really and that behind closed doors he makes these threats and that one day he will be angry enough to carry them out. He will kill me one day.'"
Astonishingly after hearing these protestations Onjali claims the judge responded: "You're just being a very silly woman now."
Onjali shared her aunt's tragic story to help raise awareness of the , a shocking document published this year by the charity Women's Aid.
The staggering statistics reveal more than 900 women were murdered by men in the last six years in England and Wales.
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