ITV’s true-crime drama Honour has just landed on Netflix and already it’s stormed straight to the top of the streaming platform’s most-watched list.
The gripping two-part story is based on the murder of 20-year-old British Muslim woman Banaz Mahmod in 2006. Tragically, she was the victim of an honour killing.
Now, four years after it originally aired on ITV, Brits are heartbroken all over again as they revisit the story.
Honour on Netflix: Banaz Mahmod’s murder dramatised
Banaz was murdered in January 2006 aged 20 at the request of her father and uncle. They had become enraged after Banaz left an arranged marriage and then entered into a new relationship with a man named Rahmat Sulemani. Tragedy struck as a result of them being seen kissing outside a London tube station.
In her father and uncle’s eyes, this brought dishonour to the family and was reason to have Banaz killed.
The series features Keeley Hawes as DCI Caroline Goode, Line of Duty’s Mark Stanley as DC Andy Craig and Outlaws star Rhianne Barreto as Banaz’s sister. The show explores the police investigation as well as how in many ways it failed Banaz.
In real life, Banaz visited the police in October 2005 to report fears that she was being followed. She said a group of Kurdish men were reporting her movements back to her father. She also provided the names of those she suspected might be trying to harm her.
Tragically, police didn’t act on her fears. Instead, just four months later, Banaz’s boyfriend, Rahmat, reported her missing in January 2006. Her remains were then found buried in a garden in Birmingham a few months later. She had been raped, strangled and buried in a suitcase.
Some of the men she’d named during her initial reporting to the police were ultimately found responsible for her murder.
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