Their comments came during their explanation regarding the life sentences handed down to her parents earlier this year.
“The defendants Abbas Shabbar and Shaheen Nazia literally accompanied their daughter to her death, and it is not excluded that the mother was the material executor,” said the 600-page explanation of the sentencing, which also saw her uncle get 16 years.
The mother is a fugitive from justice somewhere in Pakistan, while the other family members are in prison in Italy.
The judges also said they had ruled out the motivation of the murder being Saman’s alleged refusal of an arranged marriage with an older man in Pakistan.
They instead believe the killing had been a “spur of the moment” decision in apparent anger at the young woman wanting to leave home and go to live with her boyfriend in a Western-style arrangement.
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