of 'my daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love': The story of a father who beat his 17-year-old daughter to death after he found out that she has fallen in love with a British soldier.

Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British soldier in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.