Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Melissa, who attended Great Sankey High School with Shafilea, has now told of Shafilea’s predictions for her future, and has disclosed the history of abuse at the hands of her parents.
Melissa, a key prosecution witness who is now a school teacher, said: “At one point, her parents found numbers of boys on her phone and her mother tried to strangle her, leaving scratches and bruises around her neck.
“They kept her off college for a week after that, probably to let the bruises go down.”
‘Once, she told me she’d been dragged out of bed by her parents in the middle of the night and they both beat her. She wasn’t sure why.”
In February 2003, she tried to help Shafilea escape aged 16, arranging for her to climb through a window into a waiting friend's car before spending ten days with her and in a bed and breakfast.
She was forced to return home after her father intercepted her on the way to school and she was "rooted to the spot", shaking and too frightened to run away.
Seven months later, her parents stuffed a plastic bag in her mouth and suffocated her, burying her body by a river bank in the Lake District.
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