The cousins fled to Iraq after the murder Two cousins have been found guilty of murdering a relative because her family did not approve of her boyfriend.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, an Iraqi Kurd from Mitcham, south London, was strangled in January 2006 and her body buried in a suitcase in Handsworth, Birmingham.
Mohammed Saleh Ali and Omar Hussain, both 28, of no fixed address, had denied murder at the Old Bailey trial.
The 20-year-old’s father Mahmod Mahmod and uncle Ari Mahmod were jailed for her murder in 2007.
Saleh and Hussain, who also denied burying Ms Mahmod’s body, conspiring to kidnap her boyfriend Rahmat Suleimani and threatening to kill him, fled to Iraq after the murder.
In a letter handed to police weeks before she died, she had named Hussain and Ali as men “ready and willing to do the job of killing me”.
Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, had told the court that the victim had complained to police that she and her boyfriend were in danger in the run-up to her death.
She was also recorded on a phone saying her father tried to make her drink brandy and bring a suitcase with her for a car journey.
Mr Temple told the court she realised what was in store for her and fled.
But by 24 January she had disappeared and was later found dead.
Boyfriend Mr Suleimani narrowly escaped an abduction attempt after friends came to his aid, the court heard.
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