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July 20, 2016updated 21 Jul 2016 8:51am

Mail Online breached Editors’ Code with inaccurate ‘Islamic honour killing’ headline

By Dominic Ponsford

Mail Online breached the Editors’ Code with a headline which described a woman’s murder as an “Islamic honour killing”.

The article, published on 25 May, carried the headline: “Mother of four stabbed to death while her family were at a funeral ‘may have been murdered in Islamic honour killing'”.

Complainant Miqdaad Versi said the headline was inaccurate because “honour killings” have no basis in Islam.

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