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short description of her kidnapper, to the police, who were trying to trace the call. She also provided the police with the identity of Khan, whom she deduced had ordered her kidnapping. Khan had for the past five years been obsessed with marrying her, and according to Ashraf, harassed and tormented her during this period.
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at the behest of Khan, and that she had suffocated by accident while in the car boot. Khan denied ordering her murder and stated his intention was to have her kidnapped and tortured, not murdered. The motive for this was Ashraf's refusal to marry him. The two suspects had met while Nyfløt worked at a petrol station in
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Thursday 14 May 2011 Nyfløt and Khan were convicted respectively on the counts of second-degree murder and kidnapping of Faiza Ashraf. Neither of the two was convicted of premeditated murder. They were sentenced to 8 and 17 years in prison, respectively. However, both sentences were cleared for an
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Wednesday 10 February, police arrested 25-year old Håvard Nyfløt, on suspicion of carrying out the kidnapping. He later revealed under interrogation that Ashraf was dead and gave the police the location of the body. Nyfløt stated that in order to pay off his gambling debts, he had kidnapped Ashraf
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was missing. Police stated that they believed she had been kidnapped. All traffic coming through Asker was stopped and checked by heavily armed police, That afternoon, Police arrested 28-year-old taxi-driver
Shamrez Khan in Oslo. Ashraf had named him as possible accomplice in her kidnapping in her
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who felt strongly that the court had made the wrong decision, and during the second trial, both men were convicted of premeditated murder and kidnapping and had their sentences increased to 19 years for Khan and 18 years for Nyfløt. In addition, both men were to pay NOK 200,000 in compensation to
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After a short while, Nyfløt stopped the car and informed her that he was being paid by a third person to kidnap her, and that he was to be paid NOK 100,000 for carrying out this out. He also promised not to harm her, before continuing the journey. Ashraf then passed that information, along with a
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After driving to the forested area of Solli in Asker, about 25 minutes out of Oslo, Nyfløt opened his trunk and found Ashraf unresponsive. He then dragged her body to a previously dug shallow grave about 200 metres from a popular ski-trail. Afterwards he vacuumed the trunk and used a makeshift
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