Refresh: The uncle was considered the prime mover by the court and has therefore received the longest sentence. The media focused rather exclusively on the father, but I believe there were actually some indications of reluctance on his part.

No-one has actually been charged with rape so far as I know: this crime has been inferred from recording Mohamad Hama’s conversations while he was in remand, although we have been told that the suspects in Kurdistan bragged about it.

Which then also makes it a complete mockery of the father’s concept of family honour, however brutish it may have been.

You would have thought these cousins and thugs would therefore not have found any safety in Kurdistan.

Refresh – there were a couple of hired thugs, but a couple of her cousins were also involved in murdering her. I won’t quibble about who exactly was responsible for the rape, though. In my eyes, all of them are, since they inflicted it, or allowed it to happen.

However I think there is an inaccuracy in your post. The rapists and perpetrators were thugs called in by the father.

One presumes in a twisted world of honour killings, the rapists themselves should now be targets for bringing dishonour on that family. And of course the father would, I imagine, himself have lost all honour he thought he was protecting by letting his daughter be raped.

I think you know what I mean.