"He knew nothing about the death until after Somaiya had been killed." The barrister said: "Mohammed Taroos Khan accepts that Somaiya Begum, his niece, was murdered but he did not murder her. In the opening speech for the defence, Mr Zafar Ali told the jury there would be times in the trial "when you feel anger and time when you feel utterly sick." He said the decomposition of her body meant pathologists could not establish the cause of death but there was an 11cm-long metal spike embedded in her chest which had punctured her lung. Mr Pitter said: "That obviously, the prosecution say, was Somaiya." The barrister said the defendant was caught on CCTV pulling up to a gap in a wall on Fitzwilliam Street and dragging a large and apparently heavy item onto the wasteland. Mr Pitter said the prosecution's case was that Khan arrived at Binnie Street on 25 June and interactions were captured on CCTV between Khan and Ms Begum that led to her being killed and taken from the house. He said this was court-imposed after her father attempted to arrange a marriage to her cousin in Pakistan "by threat of violence." Mr Pitter told the court that Miss Begum had been living in Binnie Street with another uncle, Dawood Khan, and her grandmother as part of a Forced Marriage Protection Order. The body of Somaiya Begum was found on Fitzwilliam Street.
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