The father of a Kurdish woman tortured, raped and murdered in a “barbaric and callous” honour killing was jailed for at least 20 years on Friday. Banaz Mahmod’s father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and her uncle Ari Mahmod, 51, who received a 23-year minimum sentence, were found guilty of murder last month.

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