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2025-02-26 14:26:06
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c743edz4l77o
A decade-long search for the body of a woman who was murdered by her husband has resumed, police have said.
Mother-of-three Rania Alayed was killed by Ahmed Al-Khatib in 2013 in a flat in Salford, Greater Manchester, but the 25-year-old's remains have never been found.
Police have returned to a lay-by on the A19 in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, where they will sweep a wider area of land than has been searched previously.
A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesperson said the force "have acted upon information that has been available to us".
At the time, GMP said the "sickening" crime was a planned, so-called honour killing motivated by Al-Khatib's "outrage and jealousy that Rania would attempt to take control of her own life".
The prosecution at his murder trial said Ms Alayed had been killed for becoming "too westernised" and "establishing an independent life".
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Leggatt noted that Ms Alayed had suffered "years of abuse".
The judge added: "The contempt you showed for Rania in death matched the contempt of how you treated her in life."
The search for her body has been focused on the A19 lay-by after one of Al-Khatib's brothers told police she had been buried there.