Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod

When Rahmat Sulemani reported his girlfriend Banaz missing, it quickly became clear to DCI Caroline Goode that something was very wrong. In fact, Banaz had contacted her local police station multiple times before, even listing the names of the men she expected to murder her in a so-called honour killing. Her parents didn’t seem worried about her whereabouts, but Banaz had already accused them of being in on the conspiracy.

DCI Goode’s homicide team took on the investigation before they even had proof that a murder had taken place. What emerged was a shocking story of betrayal and a community-wide web of lies, which would take the team from the suburban streets of south London to the mountain ranges of Kurdistan, taking covert recordings and piecing together cell phone data to honour Banaz’s memory and finally bring the killers to justice.