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Scottish Muslim Faces Jail
A devout Muslim who tried to hire a hitman to avenge a perceived stain on his family’s honour was facing a possible lengthy jail term yesterday after being found guilty of incitement to murder. Mohammed Arshad, 49, a businessman and leading member of the Tayside Asian community, was outraged by his daughter’s secret wedding and wanted his new son-in-law "removed from this earth".
That's Urdu for "bumped off"...
Arshad, of Landsdowne Square, Dundee, put a price of £1000 on the head of Abdullah Yasin, 26, who had married his daughter, Insha. He gave a £200 advance payment to the man he wanted to arrange the murder and organise attacks on his new son-in-law’s family. But the supposed hitman was an undercover detective and the conversation was secretly taped.
Oops!
Some details of how he was trapped emerged during his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, but the question of how the police came to be involved remained unanswered. John Simpson, defending, said the tape did not prove Arshad was trying to have his son-in-law murdered.
"Lies, all lies"
I guess "having him removed from the face of the earth" could also involve having him shot into orbit, or teleported to Dimension 96, or levitated to one of the moons of Jupiter...
He claimed there was no "conspiracy" before the police egged on Arshad but the jury rejected his argument and, after three hours of discussion, returned a unanimous verdict of guilty. They also found Arshad guilty of making a threatening telephone call to Mr Yasin, who was living in Walsall, West Midlands.
"MacYasin? This is McArshad. You mess with my daughter and I'll have you teleported to the moons of Jupiter, you bastard!"
The trial heard that Mr Yasin and Insha, a supermarket worker, carried on their affair at a distance, calling each other on mobile phones.
"Can you hear me now?"
She told the court that he had tried to get his family and the Arshads to agree to a marriage, without success. Fearing that the woman might be sent back to Pakistan, Mr Yasin married her in secret at a register office in Edinburgh in September 2001.
Ah, daddy’s Pakistani, that explains the killing part. Of course, if he was really devout he’d have killed his daughter.
The court heard that, in a culture of arranged marriages, Mr Yasin had broken the rules. He had married a younger daughter before her older sister had a husband. Although a Muslim, he was Indian-born and was from a different caste and had done it all in secret.
Well, ok, that makes it understandable then.
Posted by: Steve 2003-11-07
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