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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