A British woman murdered in Pakistan has been pictured with the second man suspected of killing her, after it was revealed that police ignored her pleas for protection having receiving multiple death and rape threats.
Law graduate Mayra Zulfiquar, 24, has been pictured with prime suspect Zahir Jadoon, who is reported to have repeatedly threatened to kill her over a dispute.
However, police are said to have ignored her repeated requests for help with regards to death threats she was receiving from the suspect, according to Dawn.com.
Ms Zulfiquar, originally from Feltham in south west London, had also alleged that the other suspect - Saad Butt, 28 - had tried to sexually assault her after she refused to accept his marriage proposal. She is reported to have been friends with both men.
British woman killed in Pakistan; police suspect two men whose marriage proposals she rejected
A family source claims that the murderer is a local gangster, and the victim had already approached police thrice about him.
May 7, 2021 07:51 BST
Mayra Zulfiqar, a British woman of Pakistani origin, was found in a pool of blood in her flat in Lahore on Monday, days after she was allegedly threatened by two local men for refusing their marriage proposals.
Punjab Police say that Zulfiqar s initial postmortem report indicates that the law graduate from London had two bullet wounds, one on her neck and another on her arm. There were bruises on her right hand and left foot as well, as per a report in Pakistani newspaper Dawn. Her body was found by her uncle Mohammad Nazeer, after her father, who lives in west London, called him to say she had been killed.
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Police are hunting at least four suspects after a young London woman was shot and strangled while visiting Pakistan.
Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, was recently threatened with “dire consequences” by two men after she refused their marriage proposals, according to legal documents filed by her family.
She had told relatives she feared for her life after she refused to marry either of the men and had called on an uncle to intercede.
However, the law graduate from Middlesex University, who had moved from the UK around two months ago, was found dead at her apartment in the eastern city of Lahore.
The 26-year-old lady, a British law graduate, moved to Pakistan about two months ago after attending a friendâs wedding and deciding to stay.
A British law graduate has been reportedly shot and strangled at her rented home in Pakistan after telling her uncle two love rivals had been trying to force her to marry one of them.
Mayra Zulfiqar is a 26-year-old lady, who hails from Feltham, south-west London, she was allegedly âthreatened and harassedâ by the men before her body was found at her home in the Defence district of Lahore, Pakistan on Monday.
She moved to Pakistan about two months ago after attending a friendâs wedding and deciding to stay.
London Woman Strangled, Shot to Death in Pakistan After Turning Down Marriage Proposals
On 5/6/21 at 11:21 AM EDT
Police in Lahore, Pakistan, are searching for two men after the fatal shooting of a woman who reportedly refused marriage proposals from each of them.
Mayra Zulfiqar, a 24-year-old Londoner and law school graduate, was found dead in a pool of blood in her rented flat in Lahore on Monday. The young woman had been threatened by two men, according to legal documents cited by the BBC, after she denied marriage proposals from each of them. Punjab Police Superintendent Sidra Khan, citing an initial post-mortem report, told reporters Zulfiqar bled to death after she had been shot in the neck and arm, and police believed she had also been strangled.