Chilling story of Samia Shahid, the British beauty therapist ‘raped and murdered in honour killing after being lured to Pakistan by claims her dad was dying’
The second husband of Samia Shahid, from Bradford, reveals that his wife feared for her life before flying to Pakistan to visit her father who she was told was critically ill
THE husband of a British woman "raped and strangled" in a horrifying honour killing has revealed his wife feared for her life before making the trip to Pakistan.
Samia Shahid, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, had been told that her father was critically ill and she needed to fly out to see him before he passed away.
Speaking on BBC2 programme Murdered for Love?, Samia's close friends and her second husband Syed Mukhtar Kazam have told how the beauty therapist believed she was in danger when she boarded the plane.
And tragically, six days after landing in Punjab, Pakistan, in July 2016, the 28-year-old was brutally raped and strangled in a revenge "honour-style" killing.
Samia's body was discovered at the home of her first husband and cousin Mohammed Shakeel - an allegedly abusive spouse who she divorced before remarrying in 2014.
And now her distraught partner Syed, who Samia started a new life with in Dubai, believes her father knew about her murder.
He said: “How could a father do that to his daughter?
"He raised up a child all his life, loved and cared so much for the child, and finally he just decides that she’s no more his daughter.”
Syed reveals their marriage became weighed with Samia's desperation to rekindle her relationship with her parents.
Her father Shahid was originally arrested over his daughter’s brutal murder along with first husband Shakeel.
Shahid, who died in January, faced being charged but was later released due to lack of evidence.
One of Samia's friends reveals in the BBC documentary how worried she was about the trip, saying: “There was a lack of reassurances around the real nature of her visit.
";It showed she feared for her life and she had no guarantees that she was going to come back.”
The pal added: “She hugged me and said ‘nothing is going to happen to me I hope’ and that was the last time I saw her.”
Another friend said : “She wasn’t a daft girl. The question is why did she go? Why?”
Samia sent a terrifying text to one of her close friends which read: "Pray I come bk alive on 21jul my psyco cuzzan u see.”
The BBC programme claims Shakeel admitted killing the Brit when she refused to leave Syed and re-marry him.
Shakeel was allegedly angry about the divorce because he wanted to move to the UK and become a British citizen.
A police report states that he "raped and strangled" Samia after she refused to tell him where her passport was.
According to the BBC, Samia managed to momentarily escape the attack and run into the hall in Shakeel's home where she was confronted by her father.
The programme claims the victim's father gave Shakeel a "nod" before her former husband wrapped a scarf around her neck and strangled her to death.
Her family had claimed that Samia died following a heart attack, until a post mortem revealed that he had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
Shakeel remains in jail on suspicion of her revenge killing.
Samia had wed her ex as part of an arranged marriage but soon infuriated her family when she sought and was granted a divorce from the abusive man.
She then went on to fall in love with and marry Syed in 2014.
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Samia’s mother Imtiaz Bibi and sister Madiha Shahid, also from Bradford, do not feature in the documentary.
The pair are believed to be wanted for questioning by Pakistani detectives for “acting as accessories” to Samia’s murder.
The BBC programme was originally scheduled for January but the broadcaster postponed the show out of respect after her father's death.
Murdered for Love? Samia Shahid is on BBC2 tonight at 9pm.
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