Judge's anger over honour violence case

A JUDGE today condemned "honour" attacks within Muslim families.

Lord Justice Wall spoke out at the Court of Appeal as a Pakistani father was refused access to his three children after a horrific catalogue of crime was revealed.

The children, a girl aged 11 and boys of nine and five, were put in the care of a white, non-Muslim family to keep them safe after their mother, now jailed, tried to set fire to one of them and burn down the house in an attempt to incriminate her sister-in-law.

The sister-in-law, a "problem to the family", fled after being beaten and her child murdered by her husband, the mother's brother. The judge said: "This court applies a human rights-based law. One which... regards parents as equals and welfare of the child as paramount."