'Just finish it here,' Shafilea Ahmed's mother told her husband as they suffocated her with a plastic bag, daughter tells courtYounger sister Alesha broke down in tears as she described the moment Shafilea was allegedly killed for being 'westernised' Shafilea's eyes were 'really wide... You could tell she was gasping for air', Alesha said Jury hears victim 'wet herself because she was struggling so much' Shafilea lost 5st after drinking bleach in fear she was going to be left in Pakistan by her family She went to the bathroom 'and a few minutes later everybody heard a scream,' Alesha said Shafilea argued with mother after she was seen out of the house without wearing a shawl, court told Parents Iftikhar and Farzana deny murdering their daughter in 2003 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148774/Shafilea-Ahmed-trial-Mother-said-Just-finish-moments-suffocating-daughter-court-hears.html#ixzz1vuQMrH8T

The mother of a girl allegedly murdered for defying her strict Muslim parents began the fatal attack with the words 'Just finish it here', a court heard yesterday. As Shafilea Ahmed's younger brother and sisters watched, an argument which began over the 17-year-old wearing a skimpy T-shirt ended with her parents pushing a plastic bag in her mouth and suffocating her on the settee, the jury was told. Her younger sister Alesha, then just 15, said she saw Shafilea's eyes bulging as she gasped for breath and kicked out while Iftikhar Ahmed and his wife Farzana held their hands over her face. She told the jury that after the couple pushed Shafilea's limp body on to the floor, her father punched the teenager once in the chest at the family home in Warrington. That evening, she said, their 13-year-old brother Junyade told his surviving sisters: 'She deserved it.' Shafilea's remains were found on a riverbank in Cumbria five months later. But it was not until 2010 that Alesha – now 23 – came forward to give her account of the killing. Giving evidence from behind a screen at Chester Crown Court for a second day, Alesha said her sister wanted to continue in the sixth form of her secondary school to further her ambition of becoming a lawyer. However her parents objected because of the westernised lifestyle she and her friends there had led, so she went to a nearby college instead. Shafilea also got a part-time telesales job after lessons, the court heard, and would be picked up by one of her parents every evening On September 11, 2003, said Alesha, she accompanied her mother to bring Shafilea home. The 17-year-old was wearing a lilac V-neck T-shirt and white trousers made from stretchy material with ties at the hips, while she was carrying a cardigan. Asked about their mother's reaction by prosecutor Andrew Edis, QC, she answered: 'She wasn't happy about her being in just a T-shirt.' When they got home, Mrs Ahmed spoke to her taxi driver husband, and the argument about 'her not wearing her jumper' continued in the living room, she added. The mother then passed Shafilea's bags to her son to search for money and boys' numbers, which was normal practice. After he found cash including a £20 note, the argument escalated, Alesha added, as the siblings plus their two younger sisters – aged 12 and seven – looked on. Then, she told the jury: 'My mum said "Just finish it here" to my dad.' She said her mother had spoken the words in Urdu. Alesha said her mother then pushed Shafilea on to the settee before both parents started hitting her and one said: 'Grab a bag.'

Alesha said she went upstairs to the bedroom the sisters shared before sneaking back down and seeing her mother in the kitchen, sorting through old 'flowery' sheets, bin bags and rolls of tape. Later, through the curtains, she glimpsed her father carrying a dark package up the driveway with his arms outstretched, 'like a cradle', she said. 'The way he was carrying it, it just looked like it was my sister.' Tragic: Shafilea had been a keen student at her school in Warrington, Cheshire, and enjoyed trips to shopping centres and wearing Western clothes Shortly afterwards, she heard a car leaving. She said the siblings were all crying and upset – apart from Junyade. 'My brother said to me and my sisters that she deserved it.' Alesha said she was told to say Shafilea had run away from home. The next day, however, she 'blurted out' to three friends that her father had killed her sister and chopped up her body, but begged them to keep it secret. After school, for the first time ever, she changed into clothes belonging to Shafilea and went with friends to a park, drinking cider and alcopops, she said. But rumours were already swirling around that Shafilea had been 'chopped up' and 'buried in the family's back garden', so she returned home. Shafilea was reported missing after teachers heard the rumours but, when questioned by police, Alesha denied saying she had been killed. Asked by Mr Edis what she thought would happen to her if she had repeated her account to police, she answered: 'The same thing that happened to my sister.' She said her parents warned their children to 'be careful' of what they said inside the house in case listening devices had been planted by police. It was only in 2010 after Alesha was arrested over a robbery at the family home during which her mother, surviving sisters and brother were tied up that she told police she had seen Shafilea's killing. Mr Edis has told the court Alesha admits her role in the robbery and has been given no 'inducements' to give evidence against her parents. Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his 49-year-old wife deny murder. The case continues.