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[dramatic music] NARRATOR: In Birmingham,
England, 20-year-old Raneem Oudeh anxiously calls police.
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The husband she has
left is stalking her. She has every reason
to be frightened.
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And she goes, I
think my days are up. [dramatic music] NARRATOR: With Renee and
her mother, out together,
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both call the police. They're desperately
avoiding Janbaz Tarin. The day you leave
me, the day I kill you.
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NARRATOR: Played out on
camera, the real life drama of a husband intent
on controlling his wife.
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CLARE MACKINTOSH: CCTV
shows Tarin running from police before jumping
onto a car in an attempt
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to get away. [dramatic music] NARRATOR: Theirs is
an Islamic marriage. Is it about to end in murder?
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[dramatic music] [theme music] It had begun with a marriage
of two people in their 20s.
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The story of Raneem
Oudeh and Janbaz Train was to see a manhunt and a
late night swoop by police.
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It was to involve ancient
customs in Afghanistan, dramatic escapes
from a war zone,
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and all of the strands
of a tragedy which came together on the
streets of Britain's
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second city, Birmingham. MARK PAYNE: I want to thank
the public for their response
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to this. As a result of the
public assistance, we managed to locate
Tarin and detain him.
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[dramatic music] NARRATOR: Raneem Oudeh's
talent gave her hope of one day releasing her music.
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She had a great voice, and she
wanted to be a singer one day. NARRATOR: She had escaped
a war to get to England.
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She had old hopes in the
world when she came to UK. She thought she's
coming somewhere safe
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because of the war in Syria. NEIL LANCASTER: Raneem
Oudeh came over to the UK from war-torn Syria, fleeing
the violence over there.
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She was joining
her mother, and she was coming with her young son. EMMA KENNY: So taking
herself from that situation
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and bringing herself to the
UK, that would have been, yes, a leap of faith,
but without a doubt,
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she would have had great
hopes for the future. [music playing] NARRATOR: Raneem settled
with her family already
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living in the
affluent leafy suburb of Solihull, 7 miles Southeast
of Birmingham in England.
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She reunited with
her mother, Khaola Saleem, stepfather, Mohammed
Saleem, and her siblings.
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They had been in
the UK for 16 years. NOUR NORRIS: They love UK. They love Britain so much that
Khaola lived here for years,
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and she always was very
proud being in England. And Raneem, when she
came, she loved it.
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CLARE MACKINTOSH: She was
looking to make a fresh start, not only escaping
from the war in Syria,
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but also from the wreckage
of her previous relationship. She was ready for a new
chapter in her life.
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NARRATOR: Raneem had a son
from a relationship in Syria and planned on asking her
mother in England, Khaola
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to help her care for him. Raneem shows
resilience instantly. The minute that she
hits the UK, she's
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thinking about the future. She enrolls immediately at a
local college to learn English.
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She puts a child in nursery. It is all about
focusing on a new life with new opportunities.
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[music playing] NARRATOR: It was around 2014
when Janbaz Tarin fled the war torn region between
Pakistan and Afghanistan
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to also seek a better
life in the UK. EMMA KENNY: Raneem actually
makes Tarin when she
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enrolls at the local college. And the minute that he sees
her, he decides that he
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wants a relationship with her. He's very confident, a little
bit overconfident really.
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NOUR NORRIS: Raneem
is a beautiful soul. If you met her, you will see
her beauty from her character,
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beauty from her personality. Obviously, and she
was a very pretty girl, very attractive girl.
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NARRATOR: In a bid
to win over Raneem, Tarin begins weaving a
web of deceit and lies.
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When they first met, Tarin
lied to Raneem about his age. It would turn out to be
the first of many lies.
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NARRATOR: The lie
about his age is relevant because of
his status in England. He claimed to be under 18,
so permitted into the country
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as a minor fleeing a war zone. In fact, it's thought
he was in his early 20s. NEIL LANCASTER: And quite
arrogantly, when he sees her,
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she's very pretty. He's very attracted to her,
and he says you're to be mine. You will be mine.
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NARRATOR: Dr. Jane Monckton
Smith advises Britain's home office on the patterns
of abusive behavior
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in domestic relationships
which lead to violence. That kind of
language is actually
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telling us something
about the way that he perceives
his relationships. He perceives them as
practices in possession.
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He actually thinks that
he owns anybody that he is in a relationship with. NARRATOR: According to those
familiar with the social and
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religious customs that
Janbaz was exhibiting, ownership should not have
been part of his outlook.
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Tarin's belief of
ownership should not come from the Islamic
legal tradition, simply because the
concept of ownership
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does not exist within
Islam particularly when talking about marriage. There's no such thing
as Islamic ownership.
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The idea that you
enter a relationship and that you own
the other person is just a cultural
thing, which involves
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men using their power and their
control over women and women's behavior. NARRATOR: Raneem,
outgoing, approachable,
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makes friends
easily acknowledge. She's in no particular rush
to settle down with Tarin.
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She was happy just to study
and to look after her son. And she didn't want
anything else, really.
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And her mom was very happy
to help her achieve her goal. I don't think she really
wanted a man in her life.
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But he forced himself. She found herself trapped in it. And she tried to get
out of it by studying
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and developing herself. EMMA KENNY: One of the traits
that really disturbs me about Tarin is that when you
actually look at his behavior
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towards Renee at the beginning,
he set his sights on her, and then he hassles her,
and he really hassle.
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He makes it very disturbing
for her at college. It's almost stalking behavior. NOUR NORRIS: He had a
very strong character.
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And he was very,
I'm the man here. And everyone, in some
ways, thought he was great.
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He would spend a lot
of money on everybody. He would buy them lunch
for her sake and stuff.
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And he was very much
a man of control. What he wanted to do was
to ensure that his male power
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remained the
uppermost in his mind, and that she would then bow
to his manliness in effect.
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NOUR NORRIS: But he
kept coming back to her. I didn't like that. He kept calling her or wants
to see her, and all that.
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I didn't really
like that at all. And I know Raneem. She is quite soft. So he can persuade
her at some point.
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NARRATOR: Despite having
complained to tutors about his behavior,
Raneem relents
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and agrees to date around 2016. So Tarin is in a
relationship with Raneem. And the type of
person that he is,
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he's going to want to
get a firm commitment from her, something that says to
him, I now own you, officially.
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EMMA KENNY: It's hard to
understand what makes Raneem move from being in a
position of resistance,
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where she's concerned about
Tarin's behavior around her, to a position of submission
and giving in to his advances
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and ending up in a
relationship with him. NARRATOR: Less
hard to understand, when investigating what Janbaz
Tarin was saying to Raneem.
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NOUR NORRIS: We
discovered later what he said to her when he met her. This time, you're
not going to escape.
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You're mine. If you don't marry
me, I will finish all your family, not just you.
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NARRATOR: She kept that threat
from her family who were soon shocked when Tarin
convinces Raneem
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to move the relationship on. He wants an Islamic marriage. He kind of browbeats her.
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He's intense. He keeps pushing and
pushing and pushing, which he would do
because he can't relax
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until he's got that commitment. And this will be eating
him up because in his head,
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he already thinks he owns her. But he's got to have that
official stamp of ownership.
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NOUR NORRIS: I
think she was trying to be strong and clever by
going along with his plan.
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And she didn't realize
what she was walking into. As a family, we couldn't really,
in the beginning, accept him.
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JANE MONCKTON SMITH:
To men like Tarin, marriage is a practice
in possession. Once you have
married somebody, you
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then are bestowed with rights. [music playing] NARRATOR: Despite the
family's misgivings,
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Raneem and Tarin are married
in an Islamic ceremony in 2016. She is now his wife
under Islamic law,
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although, the marriage
is not legally recognized in the United Kingdom. An Islamic marriage
is a contract.
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It's no more or less, you have
to have two witnesses present. It's not a religious
ceremony at all.
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It's-- there is a religious
person in the room, but it literally takes 30 seconds.
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FAEEZA VAID: An Islamic
marriage is a marriage between two consenting parties. What is needed
for it to be valid
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is offer, acceptance,
and consideration, and both parties need to have
consented to the marriage fully
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and have capacity to do so. NARRATOR: And both
parties did consent. The day of her
wedding, I can't
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describe how beautiful she was. I just can't. She's just amazing. She had the most
beautiful personality
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and smile and eyes and hair. And me and my sisters,
when we looked at her, we nearly cried because we
knew, or we had a feeling--
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I think you have this gut
feeling that something's not quite right. She's forcing it.
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NARRATOR: Alarmingly,
on the wedding day, Tarin told Raneem what being
married now meant to her life.
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NOUR NORRIS: He sat beside her,
and he whispered in her ear. He said to her, you're mine.
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Back home, if you marry
me, you don't leave me. The day you leave me,
the day I kill you.
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NARRATOR: Was it
an empty threat, or was Raneem's life
truly in danger? [dramatic music]
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2016 and newly married
under Islamic law, Raneem Oudeh is soon
shown what it means
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to be married to Janbaz Tarin. Almost immediately
after marriage his true colors were shown.
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He was violent,
threatening, possessive. He said to her, if
you ever leave me, I'll kill you and your family.
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JANE MONCKTON SMITH:
In a strange way, he would have needed
punish for making him wait.
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So very often with
that kind of mentality, the punishment and the
abuse starts immediately.
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NOUR NORRIS: But she
kept disappearing and not wanting anyone to come
down to her house and all that.
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[inaudible] her
mum was gradually getting more upset and
worried and her days became very disturbed.
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This is, I own you now. I own you now. And you better behave yourself
because this is going to be
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the consequences if you don't. And she probably would have felt
incredibly trapped within that.
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She had a child to protect. She had herself to protect. She had her family to protect
as well because there is not
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a doubt in my mind that he
would have threatened them, and he would have made her feel
that if she attempted to leave,
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that her family would
have been in danger. NARRATOR: Now living together
in their own flat despite daily
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abusive and controlling
behavior from Tarin, Raneem puts on a brave
face for her family.
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You're talking
about narcissism and potential psychopath. He's somebody that
you would not want
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to be around because
whatever he wants he takes, whether that's
legal or otherwise.
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Raneem hid from her
family what was going on in her marriage,
something that's very common with domestic
abuse victims who
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can often be made
to feel that they brought this on themselves. She tried her best to
show us that she was fine
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and to protect us, to
protect her baby and her. She really tried to
work this marriage
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because she was worried. She didn't want it
to end because she knows this if he ends it, it
means the end of her life.
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NARRATOR: Her daily life
was about appearing to be happy doing what she wanted. Now it's important to
remember that she has
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come from a war torn country. She's seen more than
anybody should see. She now finds herself
in a violent and abusive
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relationship. But despite this,
she continues to work at college she continues
to care for her son
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and be part of her family. We have a woman
who's come from Syria. She's a single mother.
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She's been divorced. These are all problematic in
her community to some degree. And suddenly, she's married
again, and it's going wrong.
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So he knows that she's probably
unlikely to wish to divorce him because she doesn't want people
to see that the relationship is
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failing. So he's not just powerful
over in the context that he physically dominates
her, he's powerful over her
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because culturally she probably
wants the relationship to work. [music playing] NARRATOR: To keep him
away from her family,
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Tarin starts telling people
she's mentally unstable. For five months
he was actually
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trying to indicate everybody
that Raneem is crazy, and she's got mental issues. We knew he was really bad.
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But we didn't know
how bad it was. CLARE MACKINTOSH: Throughout
this difficult time
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in her marriage when
she must have felt so isolated from her
friends and family,
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unable to tell them
what was going on, she was also persevering
with her college course
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and looking after
her baby son to whom she was utterly devoted. NOUR NORRIS: So here she
was, unable to leave him
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because he was
threatening her that he's going to kill her and kill
her baby and kill her family.
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If she leaves him, he'll
find anywhere in the country if she runs away. NARRATOR: At the start
of 2017, Tarin returned
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briefly to Afghanistan. While Tarin is in
Afghanistan, Raneem discovers that her husband
has another wife and family
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in his native country. EMMA KENNY: He's got three
children and a pregnant wife in another country.
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So now we're seeing
that he is living a complete lie, a
complete fabrication of who he really is.
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CLARE MACKINTOSH: Tarin
had even spoken openly about this with neighbors,
even bragging about the fact
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that neither wife
knew about the other. He'd been brought up to think
that women are lesser beings
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and somehow they don't have
the rights that he has. And therefore, he would
want to enforce his power.
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He's telling his friends
that he's got two wives. He's joking about it. He doesn't seem to care.
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That's just who he is. NARRATOR: Leaving Tarin would
have been tough for Raneem.
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If you have an
Islamic marriage and a woman wants
a divorce, she has to go to a Sharia council or
a Sharia court, which could be
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a group of men around
the table, which makes it rather
difficult for her to get everything that she wants.
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FAEEZA VAID: Raneem's hesitation
with leaving her marriage with Tarin would have been the
same issues that all women face
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when considering leaving
an abusive situation, her personal turmoil, you know,
where she was going to go, what
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she was going to do,
she's got a child, how would she be
able to, you know, survive outside
of that marriage,
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would have all been things
that she would have considered. So I think it's really
important for us
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to understand that leaving
an abusive situation would be difficult
for anyone doing it.
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NAZIR AFZAL: You
know, you cannot possibly leave a relationship. It's something that's
seen as almost,
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well, sinful in some respects. And so the idea that she would
want to leave a relationship,
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people around her
clearly were supportive, but she would have probably
had this in her mind
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that it's something
that would perhaps, well, shame her family. And it's something that
she felt she shouldn't do.
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NARRATOR: With Tarin
out of the country and Raneem's family
now aware of the abuse
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that's been going on, the family
persuade Raneem to leave him. Everyone was telling her
to do it for a long time,
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and to protect her
baby and protect us and to protect herself. The type of person
that he is, he's
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not going to take
this well, and he is not going to just go away. She builds up to
telling him it's over.
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She actually doesn't want to
be married to him anymore. He is still constantly
trying to control her.
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He's making threats to her. He's making threats
to her family. He's relentless. He's obsessive.
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NARRATOR: Raneem was
out of her depth, unable to control a
truly dangerous man. JANE MONCKTON SMITH: As
soon as Raneem said to him
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she wants the
relationship to end, the risk has gone sky high. And I think that she knew
that as well at some level.
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She knew how dangerous he was. He'd shown her. [music playing] NARRATOR: It's 2018, a
failed Islamic marriage
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has left Raneem Oudeh
determined to leave her husband Janbaz Tarin. Back from Afghanistan, visiting
his other wife and children,
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Tarin repeats his threat to
Raneem, a threat she believes is all too real. She said to me, aunty.
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I said, yes. She goes, I think
my days are up soon. I said, what do you mean? She goes, I think
he's going to kill.
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NARRATOR: Her aunt, Nour
Norris and her mother, Khaola Saleem are watching
over Raneem's every move
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to protect her. NOUR NORRIS: She had a very
strong mother behind her, who supported her all the time.
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And she took care
of her and her baby. NARRATOR: Tarin did appear
ready to take a step away.
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But appearances were
part of his deception. CLARE MACKINTOSH: Tarin refuses
to accept that his relationship
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with Raneem is over. A family meeting is
held in which Tarin agrees to stay away
from her, but he
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doesn't honor that commitment. He hassles her and
subjects her to constant controlling behavior.
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So he's going nowhere. He's absolutely fixated
on her, and he's not going to let her go.
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This is really indicative of
what we see in certain crimes towards women. She's in a fight for
her life at this point.
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NARRATOR: During
this time, Raneem is still living in their
flat with her young child.
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She is fully aware that
ending their marriage is sending Tarin into a
downward violent spiral.
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The police attended the
property on several occasions. Neighbors made reports of
screaming and arguments.
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NOUR NORRIS: The neighbors
had to chase him with a stick because he was hurting her.
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NEIL LANCASTER: It was a
tumultuous rest of the year, with a litany of abuse,
threats, assaults.
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He even tried to break
into her mother's house. Police were called
and did intervene
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on a number of occasions. However, she often declined to
substantiate those allegations.
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JANE MONCKTON SMITH:
She tells the police that she feels in danger. But the same with
a lot of victims,
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she doesn't necessarily want
to go the extra step of saying, right, I'm dragging you
in front of the courts,
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I am making a
complaint against you because that might raise
the risk even higher.
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NOUR NORRIS: Every person who
has been abused out there, they always call for
help, not on the phone,
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but they call for help
even through anything they do in their life. Any clue they give you,
they are calling for help,
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and they don't know
what they want. NARRATOR: By early summer 2018
matters were coming to a head.
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Raneem still lived in the flat
that she had shared with Janbaz Tarin in Solihull, Birmingham.
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In theory, he had moved out. In practice, he was seldom
away from her front door.
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And matters were about to
become more complicated. She's terrified. She's telling friends
that she feels
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her life is going to end soon. CLARE MACKINTOSH: By
this point, Raneem had been completely
honest with her family
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about the reign of terror
that she'd been subjected to. And so she had her
family's full support.
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Her mother said, come on, we're
going to do this properly. We're going to
get a court order.
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They went to court and applied
for a non molestation order. NARRATOR: The mere act of
Khaola helping her daughter out
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as any mother would
do has put her firmly in the sights of Janbaz. EMMA KENNY: So he starts
to stalk her, follow her.
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He even breaks in to
her mother's home. But her and Raneem, Khaola
and Raneem, their relationship
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was beyond mother and daughter. [music playing] [dramatic music] NARRATOR: In August 2018,
after another series
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of violent arguments
involving police intervention, Raneem finally moves
out of the flat
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that she had shared with Janbaz
Tarin and in with her mother. Tarin continues to harass.
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He warns Raneem she's
breaking the sacred vows of her religion. Even though she's
living with her mother
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so it gives him less
opportunity to be aggressive towards, at every
opportunity he has,
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he uses that kind of control. Now this is really worrying. Because if you have ended a
relationship with somebody
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and they continue that
stalking behavior, it's because they're
going somewhere with it.
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They're not leaving it behind. And it's not because they
think they're necessarily
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going to get you
back, is that they're building to a crescendo,
usually of violence.
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What we're finding is that
ultimately domestic abuse is about power and control.
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So the perpetrator
will use whatever they can to justify
the abuse that they are
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inflicting on the other person. So in Tarin's case,
he chose to use religion in order to justify
his wrongful actions.
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On the 10th of August, Tarin
confronted Raneem and smashed up her mobile phone. NEIL LANCASTER: She's terrified.
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She's telling friends
that she feels her life is going to end soon. It comes to a point
where her mother assists
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to get a non molestation
order, preventing him interfering with her. The problem is in this
situation the power is all
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with Tarin because
he is the one who knows what he's going to do. He is the one who's
inside his head.
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They have only got
the law on their side. So they use what weapons they
have to keep themselves safe.
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They want a court order. They want something that
they hope will keep him away. It's all they've got, really.
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What else have they got? Raneem got the court order,
and she told the solicitor everything that happened to
her, A to Z. At that point,
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she wasn't scared at all. She had this strength that was
in her to say, and she did it.
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CLARE MACKINTOSH:
The non molestation order prevented
Tarin from coming within 100 meters of his wife.
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This gave Raneem a much
greater sense of security. She finally felt as
though she was safe.
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[dramatic music] NARRATOR: The August
16, 2018 court order issued against Tarin
meant that Raneem
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felt some degree of
comfort and safety, optimism for her future. NOUR NORRIS: She was free.
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She was free, and
you can see that from her eyes and her beauty. I was really happy
and excited for her.
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And she was telling me,
I'm looking for a job, and this is what I'm
going to do next year.
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I had my certificate. And I had really good results. And I'm moving on. I'm going to do this.
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I'm going to do that. She was on and on,
going about it. [dramatic music] NARRATOR: The safety of the
court order was short lived.
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Tarin was at breaking
point and losing control. EMMA KENNY: I imagine that
Tarin will have been absolutely
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infuriated and enraged
that she has dared to seek a non molestation order. NAZIR AFZAL: The
thing about honor
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is that it escalates
very quickly. So if somebody goes and seeks
help from the authorities,
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or he goes to the
police, goes to the court to get a non molestation
order as she did, actually, he
00:26:20
sees that as even more shame. He sees that as something that
actually denies him the ability
00:26:25
to do what he wants to do. And if anything, it
aggravates the situation, and clearly in his mind,
that's exactly what happened.
00:26:33
NOUR NORRIS: When she
had the court order, he had had in his mind,
that's it, she's going.
00:26:38
He stepped up his
harassment of Raneem, stalking her wherever
she went and even sleeping outside her mother's
home for 12 consecutive nights.
00:26:47
She must have felt terrified. EMMA KENNY: It's hard to imagine
the nature of a human being who
00:26:52
chooses to spend
12 nights sleeping outside his ex-wife-to-be's
mother's house because she's in there.
00:26:59
To publicly display that
level of stalking just demonstrates that he
doesn't care about rules.
00:27:05
Now, that's a really
important point to note. This is a man who could not
care less about the rules
00:27:10
around him. And that's what's so dangerous
about an individual like Tarin. He simply doesn't
follow any rules, which
00:27:16
makes him really dangerous. NARRATOR: Tarin had
become a predator, one about to move in for the kill.
00:27:26
CLARE MACKINTOSH: On
the 26th of August, Raneem spent the
day with her mother. They visited family.
00:27:33
They had a nice day,
but unbeknownst to them, Tarin was stalking their
every move in a white van
00:27:41
he'd borrowed from work. NARRATOR: That evening,
Raneem and her mother go to a nearby shisha lounge.
00:27:48
Tarin follows them. EMMA KENNY: Remember,
at this point, they have a non molestation
order against Tarin.
00:27:54
That means that they believe
that he's not going to be coming anywhere near them.
00:28:00
NARRATOR: He breaches the
molestation order of just 10 days and goes into the bar.
00:28:04
[dramatic music] EMMA KENNY: Imagine the terror. In that moment, not only do
they know that he's there,
00:28:15
and he's a threat, they know
that nothing they have done has stopped him,
not even the police.
00:28:20
CLARE MACKINTOSH: And after
watching them for a while, he confronts them, and
an argument breaks out.
00:28:25
[dramatic music] At that point, he
lost his patience, especially seeing her
having her free life back
00:28:34
and just looking beautiful
and walking to her happy. He started to abuse her. He decides that he's going to
be very publicly attacked them.
00:28:44
EMMA KENNY: He tries to
take the phone off Raneem. So we imagine at
this point that he's
00:28:48
got some ideas that maybe she's
betraying him in his mind. You know, he wants
to check on her.
00:28:53
JANE MONCKTON SMITH:
He actually assaults Khaola and Raneem, publicly. He threatens to kill
Raneem in front of people.
00:29:02
This is a man who feels
completely justified because he legally owns this
woman, which gives
00:29:10
him rights, which
means that he is justified in what he's doing. The idea that
religion was the reason
00:29:18
why he felt the need to
be able to control her is just nonsense. It's a total utter red herring.
00:29:23
JANE MONCKTON SMITH: So
he's not particularly worried about people hearing
him give these threats
00:29:30
and actually hitting them. But it's more than
possible that he had actually already
decided that this is
00:29:38
the day he's going to kill her. NARRATOR: After Tarin
assaults both women and threatens to kill them, he's
thrown out of the shisha lounge
00:29:46
by staff. And at 10:30 PM, Raneem
calls the police. Much of what followed is
captured by security cameras.
00:29:53
Now, Raneem and
her mother know that they really are in danger. So after Tarin's gone.
00:29:58
They start phoning the police,
asking them for directions, what do we do now? CLARE MACKINTOSH: She explains
that Tarin has assaulted
00:30:04
her and her mother, that they
have a court order against him and he's breached it.
00:30:08
And there does seem to
be some confusion and quite a bit of chaos around
what they should do
00:30:12
and where they should go. The problem was-- and that was that they really-- they didn't find the court
order on their system.
00:30:22
And they asked, has he left? Yes, he's left. So to them, it's not problem. NARRATOR: Because of the
argument inside the shisha
00:30:29
lounge, Raneem and her mother
are also asked to leave and are now standing
outside waiting
00:30:34
for the police to arrive. That night, particular
night was so cold. Though it was in
the end of August,
00:30:41
I've never experienced
a night like that. They couldn't even
bare the coldness. So they got into the
car after half an hour
00:30:49
of waiting for the
police and went. CLARE MACKINTOSH:
The police do attend, but sadly by that
point, Raneem felt
00:30:57
so frightened of being there
that she and her mother had already left the scene.
00:31:03
NARRATOR: Terrified
for her life, Raneem calls the police
again just after 11 o'clock
00:31:08
to say that they've
left the lounge and are on the way to
her mother's house. At the same time,
Tarin is arming
00:31:14
himself with a lethal weapon
from his family's store. NOUR NORRIS: He went off
to his father's shop,
00:31:20
who has very strong knives. They use it for cutting
some of the meats in there. And he got a 13-inch knife.
00:31:31
He then tucks it
down his waistband and gets back into his van. He then goes back to
the shisha lounge,
00:31:37
but Raneem has already gone. So he's out, and he's looking
and he's hunting for them,
00:31:41
with one thing on his mind. NOUR NORRIS: He quickly
drove to my sister's house and waited behind the tree,
waiting for them to come.
00:31:52
There's no police chasing him. He was on the loose. He was doing whatever
he wants to do.
00:31:57
NARRATOR: Mother and daughter
know they're in danger. EMMA KENNY: There does seem
to be a mismatch of urgency
00:32:02
when it comes down to the
police's response and reaction to Raneem and her mother.
00:32:07
They're obviously
very distressed. They're obviously very worried
about their personal safety.
00:32:11
But the way that it's
dealt with is the police suggests that they're
going to take a statement
00:32:15
the following morning. CLARE MACKINTOSH:
Just after midnight, the police called Raneem back.
00:32:20
They told her to get inside
the house, to lock the doors, and to call them
if Tarin came back.
00:32:26
NARRATOR: When the call came
in, Raneem and her mother were approaching their home.
00:32:31
NEIL LANCASTER: Unfortunately,
what she doesn't know is that her husband is
there waiting for her.
00:32:35
EMMA KENNY: Tarin has turned
up, waited in the bushes, armed with a steak knife,
and he has one intention,
00:32:40
and that is absolutely
to murder Raneem. And anything or anyone
that gets in the way
00:32:46
will suffer the
same consequences. Whilst Raneem is speaking
to the police on the phone,
00:32:51
her mother starts to
become hysterical. And it turns out that Tarin
has hid in some bushes,
00:32:56
and he's coming towards them. NEIL LANCASTER: She's screaming
down the phone, he's here,
00:33:00
he's here, I can see
him, I can see him. The police can hear the screams
as she's being attacked,
00:33:06
and he attacks them viciously
with the kitchen knife, stabbing them both repeatedly.
00:33:12
This was the most
awful frenzied assault with the absolute aim
of killing Raneem.
00:33:19
[dramatic music] Her mother came in to try
and protect her so she became collateral damage as well.
00:33:26
He was determined that she
was going to be stopped. Both women tried
desperately to fight back.
00:33:32
They just couldn't. He managed to grab
hold of Raneem. He was stabbing her. Mother tried to intervene
in order to stop this.
00:33:39
He just turned his
attention to her. EMMA KENNY: The last
part of this attack is actually witnessed
by Raneem's half sister.
00:33:45
She comes out of the door. Obviously, she'll have
heard the screams, just as her half sister
and her mother are dying.
00:33:52
Imagine that scene,
watching Tarin running away. The man that they've been
concerned about for months
00:33:58
and months, and
there, he's finally done what they were afraid of. He killed both of them in a
frenzied attack in the street.
00:34:07
[dramatic music] NARRATOR: Leaving both
women fatally wounded, Tarin flees the scene.
00:34:14
He went to change his clothes. He bought some food. And then he went into hiding.
00:34:20
NARRATOR: Birmingham
as a relatively large expat Afghan community. Tarin felt he could
find somewhere to hide
00:34:26
and then flee the country. Police had a double murder
and a manhunt on their hands.
00:34:38
[dramatic music] Janbaz Tarin was a wanted man. He had married in
an Islamic ceremony
00:34:48
only for his Birmingham,
England based wife to discover that he
was already married
00:34:51
with a family in Afghanistan. He had lied to her
and to her mother. August 26, 2018, and
they're dead at his hands,
00:35:01
whilst he is on the run. This is a man who's quite
used to living on the edges, running, and hiding.
00:35:09
He's got lives going on
in different countries. He's got families in
different countries.
00:35:14
This is not unusual for him. He probably thought,
I'll just do that, and then I'll go off and start
another life somewhere else.
00:35:21
They won't catch me. [dramatic music] NARRATOR: The streets
and neighborhoods of Britain's second city
became the hunting ground
00:35:29
for a killer. The search itself
presented dangers. Police decided that they needed
the help of the community
00:35:36
itself to first track him down. Warning not to approach him,
they released images of Tarin
00:35:42
to help the public
recognize him. CLARE MACKINTOSH: Tarin was
on the run for three days,
00:35:47
becoming one of Britain's
most wanted criminals. A 5,000 pound reward was
offered for information
00:35:54
leading to his arrest. NAZIR AFZAL: When
he was on the run, the police appealed
for help, particularly
00:35:58
from the Afghan community
of which he was a part. And the community would be
rather confused, I imagine.
00:36:03
Some of them would be very
supportive of what he had done. They would perhaps feel
a sense of ownership
00:36:09
that he's one of us, therefore,
we should look after our own. Thankfully, there were
others undoubtedly
00:36:14
within the community
that saw, well, we apply the rights of
this country, namely
00:36:18
the British rules. And therefore, we should
support the police. We should be able to
provide information.
00:36:23
CLARE MACKINTOSH: And it
was a tip-off from a member of the public that
resulted in police
00:36:28
finding him hiding in a
storage area of a cornershop. NEIL LANCASTER:
Following a tip-off,
00:36:33
police went to Naga Food Store
in Sparkhill in Birmingham. He's soon found, and
there is a chase.
00:36:39
CLARE MACKINTOSH: And
Tarin once again went on the run, this time on foot. [dramatic music]
00:36:45
CCTV shows Tarin
running from police before jumping onto a car
in an attempt to get away.
00:36:52
The fight that ensued
resulted in incapacitant spray being used. But eventually, Tarin was
brought under control.
00:37:01
He's detained,
and he's arrested. [dramatic music] [groans] That's it. Yeah, it's not
going to wash out.
00:37:12
[interposing voices] Open your eyes. NARRATOR: Nour Norris
accepted the police invitation
00:37:17
to speak for her
family, a family that had lost a young
woman and her mother, who had fled to
England because it was
00:37:23
safer than a war zone in Syria. They were the
support of our family. They were the soul of everybody.
00:37:31
Losing them is one thing, but
being gone in the way they did, is another thing. But one particular
single man who
00:37:43
thought that their
life should be his and because you can't have
them, they have to go.
00:37:53
He broke us all apart really. I can't explain to you the
pain we live every day.
00:37:58
[dramatic music] He wanted to take her life
because he didn't love her. He just thought she's
one of his things.
00:38:09
He owned her. She can't go for someone else. She can't be free. JANE MONCKTON SMITH:
This man was always
00:38:18
going to kill somebody, and
that somebody, more than likely, was always going to be
one of his partners.
00:38:24
[music playing] NARRATOR: Shocked and
devastated by the loss of Raneem and Khaola, the family
are slowly coming to terms
00:38:32
with their life without them. NOUR NORRIS: Life goes on. And those people who are
gone, they wouldn't want us
00:38:40
to be here not happy and sad. I have to be strong for
them and to carry a message.
00:38:50
Because if they were
here, if they come back, they'll do these things. They will try to
make an awareness
00:39:00
to what happened to them. CLARE MACKINTOSH:
Khaola's husband, Mohammed Saleem described what
a wonderful woman his wife was.
00:39:08
She always worked to make the
home a happy place for him and for her children. She sewed, she
baked, she cooked.
00:39:16
She was a wonderful woman. NARRATOR: Determined not to
let the murders be in vain,
00:39:20
Raneem's aunt is
highlighting domestic abuse to raise awareness to help other
women trapped like her niece.
00:39:27
We need to protect
women by allowing their voice to be heard,
by making a better system.
00:39:35
Those vulnerable woman we
need to give them wings. We need to make them
stronger not weaker.
00:39:41
Domestic abuse is
certainly a societal problem and a social problem. And it does not have one type
of perpetrator and victim model.
00:39:51
Unfortunately, anyone can
be the victim of abuse. And anyone can be the
perpetrator of abuse,
00:39:57
Muslim or not. What happened here is
the perfect storm of some, you know, over
entitled, psychopathic,
00:40:08
narcissistic individual, who was
always going to be dangerous. But we are not going to let
him take our life away from us.
00:40:19
NAZIR AFZAL: The case
of Raneem and Tarin is certainly tragic
in so many ways. Particularly in the UK,
sadly, this is a problem.
00:40:28
However, the vast majority
of domestic abuse cases in this country range
from physical abuse
00:40:35
to emotional abuse to
coercive control in many ways. And we need to be looking out
for all these forms of abuse
00:40:43
because none of them are OK. NARRATOR: On the 17th
of December, 2008, Tarin pleaded guilty to murder
in Birmingham Crown Court
00:40:52
and was sentenced
to life imprisonment and will serve at least
32 years, a much longer
00:40:57
than average minimum tariff. CLARE MACKINTOSH: There
were numerous aggravating factors that resulted
in such a long sentence.
00:41:04
These included the
sustained premeditation. Tarin had stalked Raneem
on numerous occasions.
00:41:12
It also included the frenzied
nature of the attack, the defensive wounds that were
evident on the victim's body,
00:41:19
and the frenzied way in which
he'd carried out his attack. Now, this crime scene was
described by the detective
00:41:25
in charge, a man who has
investigated more than 100 murders, as being one of the
most disgustingly violent
00:41:33
he's ever encountered. Now for a man with that
pedigree to say those words is indicative of just what
we we're dealing with here.
00:41:41
MARK PAYNE: This was a
premeditated, cowardly attack by a man with a history
of violence towards women.
00:41:49
He hunted down the victims. He took a weapon to the scene. He hid in waiting
for them and then
00:41:58
jumped out and inflicted savage
unsurvivable wounds on them. I want to thank the public
for their response to this.
00:42:07
As a result of the
public assistance, we managed to locate
Tarin and detain him.
00:42:14
And he's now safely behind
bars where he belongs. [dramatic music]