Honor Killing???

TNR posted a link to the following gruesome discovery. His comments are as follows:

Honor crime again?

Even a few years ago we never heard of so many cases of beheading but now there seems to be a community of new immigrants that is fond of that kind of crime…. And then when they write about a circular scar on her forehead, did she get that from banging her head on the floor five times a day?

Woman whose severed head was found on a beach was ‘attractive brunette in her 20s or 30s’
By JENNIFER SUGDEN – Daily Mail.co.uk

2 April 2008

A woman whose severed head was found in a bag on a Scottish beach was an attractive brunette who died very recently, police have revealed.

But the identity of the woman, aged in her twenties to thirties, remained shrouded in mystery tonight.

Two young sisters, aged eight and 11, discovered the head wrapped in a plastic bag while out playing on Tuesday morning.

A hand was found soon afterwards in the same area, and yesterday police announced a second hand had been found on the same patch of beach later in the evening.

As officers struggled to identify the victim, the children’s mother yesterday said the two girls had been deeply traumatised by what they had seen.

She said: “They are terrified the same person who killed this woman is going to come back for them because they found her.”

Police confirmed yesterday that the victim was a European woman.

They said the condition of the head and the hands clearly indicated that she had died recently. As yet her other body parts have not been found.

Detective Chief Inspector Graham McMillan of Tayside Police said: “She is a European woman aged in her twenties to thirties. She has brown hair and brown eyebrows and her hair is of shoulder length.

“Her complexion is pale and she has some freckling across her cheekbones.

“She also has a one-and-a-half inch circular scar on her forehead just below her hairline.

“Unusually for a woman her ears were not pierced.”

He said her nails were short but well manicured. He said police were hoping to release an artist’s impression of the mystery woman, whom he described as “attractive”, at some point today.

He said: “At this point we have no clue as to her identity or where exactly she has come from.

“Her description does not match any reports of missing people we have at this time. It may well be she has not been reported missing yet.”

He added that they would be examining dental records and that all her teeth were intact.

Det Chief Insp McMillan said officers had conducted a full search of the rest of the beach but that as yet they had found no other body parts belonging to the woman.

He said they were now doubtful of finding any more parts.

Police have appealed to anyone who is concerned for a missing person to contact them immediately. He said inquiries were international at the moment.

At this point he said he was unable to confirm how long the woman’s head had been in the bag but said it was unlikely that it had been there for a long time because the body parts were so well preserved.

He said he could not confirm whether the woman had any rings on her fingers and that they were still waiting for results in terms of exactly how long she had been dead or whether or not she had been dumped in the sea.

Det Chief Insp McMillan said they were consulting with experts about tidal movements to assist them in this.

He confirmed one of her hands, also found on Tuesday, was found in a black plastic bag similar to the one in which the head was found.

He refused to say whether the hand found later in the evening was also contained within a plastic bag.

Officers were yesterday continuing to conduct door-to-door inquiries to find out whether anybody had additional information about the grisly find.

Det Chief Insp McMillan said it was still being treated as a suspicious incident rather than a murder inquiry at this point.

He said: “The key now is to establish her identity and then we can move onto how and when she died.”

He said the support from the public had been promising but that as yet there were no clear leads.

The two children, aged eight and eleven, who made the shocking discovery at around 10am on Tuesday have been removed from the area by Angus Social Services and are currently being offered counselling by police and social workers.

Yesterday morning their mother Sarah, aged in her late thirties, said her children had been left traumatised by what they had seen.

She said: “They are terrified the same person who killed this woman is going to come back for them because they found her.”

Yesterday Det Chief Insp McMillan said the children were still very upset by what had happened.

Arbroath councillor Jim Millar said: “I have met with the mother of the two children who made the grim discovery and it has been a very traumatic experience for the whole family.

“They understand and have a great deal of regret for the murdered woman but have asked people to realise that this incident has also had a very profound effect on them.

“The children know exactly what they found. They are under no illusions.”

Local resident nurse Lesley Boath, 45, who has lived in Arbroath for 20 years, said: “I heard the children screaming when they found the head and wondered what on earth had happened.

“I cannot believe that some poor woman’s head has been washed up on this beautiful coastline.

“My heart goes out to her and her family and I just hope that she has found peace now.”

She said the small coastal community had been shaken by the grim discovery and that nothing like that had happened in the town before.

The discovery is the second such find in the area in the past 13 months. In March last year, the lower part of a man’s left leg was discovered washed up at nearby Broughty Ferry.

The beach was reopened to the public yesterday after police finished their searches.

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