Det Ch Insp Caroline Goode, who led Scotland Yard's investigation into a 2006 "honour killing" receives the Queen's Police Medal.

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Police have declined to comment on speculation the teenager could have refused an arranged marriage and become the victim of a so-called "honour killing".

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Det Ch Insp Caroline Goode, who led Scotland Yard's investigation into the 2006 "honour killing" of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod from Mitcham, south-west London, is to receive the Queen's Police Medal.

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It is widely agreed that the root and cause of honour killing is a complex, historical phenomenon which has no justification in Islam's holy book, the Koran, and which has also been known to occur elsewhere in the world and among other religions.

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Though she had been raped and tortured, Captain Wake ordered her to be shot or, if the captain's later suggestion is to be believed, she herself shot her, since the Maquisards' sense of honour permitted her rape but not her killing.

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