EXCLUSIVE The chilling true story behind Netflix drama Honour: Detective who led probe into murder that inspired hit series reveals how she battled to uncover the truth and find Banaz Mahmod's killers By Vivek Chaudhary Published: 08:15, 22 August 2024 | Updated: 08:18, 22 August 2024 e-mail View comments The detective who led the investigation into the brutal murder of a young Iraqi-Kurdish woman by her family has revealed astonishing details of how she uncovered the crime which is currently being dramatized in a moving Netflix series. Viewers have been left in tears after watching Honour, a two-part series based on the murder of Banaz Mahmod in 2006 who was aged 20 at the time. She was killed on the orders of her father Mahmod Mahmod and uncle Ari Mahmod who recruited other family members and friends to carry it out in a so called 'honour killing.
' Banaz fled an abusive arranged marriage, which she had at the age of 17, after being continuously raped and beaten by her husband, who was ten years older. She returned to live in the family home in south London and then fell in love with a Kurdish man, Rahmat Suleimani. She was deemed to have brought 'shame' on the family with her father and uncle hatching an evil plan to have her killed in the most savage way possible to restore their 'honour' and 'reputation' within the community.
Viewers have been left in tears after watching Honour, a two-part series based on the murder of Banaz Mahmod, aged 20 at the time (pictured) Mahmod .