A Assassin is suing ITV, claiming a crime drama based mostly on his “honour” killing of his niece has blackened his identify.
Ari Mahmod ordered a few cousins to get rid of Banaz Mahmod, 20, following she remaining an abusive organized marriage.
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All four and her father were jailed for everyday living in 2007 and 2010.
In 2020, the horrific criminal offense was dramatised in Honour, starring Keeley Hawes.
Banaz, of Mitcham, South London, was raped, crushed and throttled and her body buried in a Birmingham backyard.
Mahmod, 68 — at the time a senior member of London’s Iraqi Kurdish neighborhood — has now has launched a Large Court motion for libel and defamation.
It will come in spite of terrified members of his victim’s household, fearful of his wrath, nonetheless living beneath witness safety.
A relatives resource claimed: “He’s never demonstrated any remorse and is presumably now attempting to make income out of how he has been portrayed.
“His characterisation appeared correct.”
ITV has instructed main London legislation company Osborne Clarke to defend the motion, and declined to comment yesterday.
