Shafilea Ahmed, 17, penned lines including ‘we are not a happy family’ and ‘I feel trapped’ in the months before she was killed, the jury was told.

A pensioner claims he had to wait more than an hour for an ambulance after falling and suffering a five-inch gash to his head. Ismail Omar, 76, was found by his wife Khairoon on the floor of their Cheetham Hill home with blood streaming from the wound after a fall.

The sister of 17-year-old Warrington schoolgirl Shafilea Ahmed saw her being murdered by  their parents, a court was told today.

A jury has been sworn in in the trial of a man and wife accused of murdering their teenage daughter. Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his partner Farzana Ahmed, 49, of Liverpool Road, Warrington, both deny murdering 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed in 2003.