By Ian Garland PUBLISHED: 11:07 EST, 24 May 2012 | UPDATED: 16:19 EST, 24 May 2012 'Murdered': The sister of Shafilea Ahmed (pictured) broke down in tears as she described the moment she witnessed her parents allegedly killing her sister The sister of Shafilea Ahmed told a jury yesterday that she had been ‘haunted’ by the memory of the 17-year-old’s murder at the hands of their strict Muslim parents. Alesha Ahmed, who was 15 at the time, kept quiet about what she claims to have witnessed for seven years before she finally ‘snapped’, she said. Facing the prospect of an arranged marriage and being sent to Pakistan – the same destiny which allegedly provoked Shafilea’s ill-fated rebellion – she said she too defied their parents, going to university and drinking alcohol.
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Alesha Ahmed broke down to police in 2010, seven years after Shafilea died
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