{"id":3336,"date":"2008-08-07T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/07\/duo-accused-of-hiding-victim-cleared\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:10:09","slug":"duo-accused-of-hiding-victim-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/07\/duo-accused-of-hiding-victim-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Duo accused of hiding victim cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>Men walk free due to \u2018lack of evidence\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>TWO MEN accused of helping hide the body of an honour killing victim have been cleared.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Dashti Babaker, 21, and Amir Abbas, 31, walked free from the Old Bailey after the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence against them.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They had been accused of helping in the honour killing of Banaz Mahmod who was killed and buried in a suitcase in the garden of a Birmingham house. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Dashti Babaker, cousin of Banaz, and his friend Amir Abbas, were alleged to have joined the plot in order to curry favour with community elders.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Babaker, 21, of Redcar Street, Camberwell, south east London, and Abbas, 31, of no fixed address, both denied perverting the course of justice and a separate count of &#8220;preventing the lawful and decent burial of a corpse&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men walk free due to \u2018lack of evidence\u2019 &#13; TWO MEN accused of helping hide the body of an honour killing victim have been cleared. &#13; Dashti Babaker, 21, and Amir Abbas, 31, walked free from the Old Bailey after the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence against them. &#13; They had been accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}