Writer Gwyneth Hughes unmasks the reality of so-called honour violence in new ITV drama
It was almost 15 years ago that writer Hughes saw Banaz Mahmod’s face in the newspaper, a victim of a so-called honour killing.
In 2006, Mahmod was raped and murdered in a plot initiated by her own father and uncle, for falling in love with a man her family hadn’t chosen, following a divorce from her violent husband 10 years her senior.
For Hughes, after watching the documentary Banaz: A Love Story, she knew she needed to turn the story into a drama.
