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Wife and daughter of ‘honor killing’ defendant tell Houston jury about rapes, beatings and attempted drowning
August 3, 2018
"The first wife and daughter of a 60-year-old Conroe man convicted last week of capital murder in two 2012 “honor killings” took the witness stand Friday, and both testified he raped them and subjected them to years of persistent, brutal abuse.
Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan’s eldest daughter said she married out of desperation in 1999 to get out of his house only to learn — after her father drugged her and shipped her off to his homeland in Jordan — that her father had shot and killed her new husband.
Irsan’s first wife and his daughter, who is set to resume testimony on Monday, are expected to be the last two prosecution witnesses in the penalty phase of his Houston capital murder trial....
Halting, tearful testimony Friday about rapes and attempted murders brought several people in the courtroom gallery to tears. A female juror held her head in her hands. Irsan showed little reaction, besides occasionally shaking his head in denial.
When Irsan’s daughter came off the witness stand for the day, relatives of her slain husband and those of the two 2012 fatal shooting victims lined up to hold and hug her.
The first witness to take the stand was Irsan’s first wife, Robin Dahl, who told the jury that on the day she met the defendant in 1979 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he raped her. Irsan took her home, compelled her to marry him and in the ensuing 16 years of marriage in the Midwest, Texas and Jordan, he beat her, threatened her with guns, knives, a rope and a chain saw — which she understood he intended to use to cut her into pieces and bury her remains in the backyard, she said....
When Irsan brought home a second wife, he gave her electric shocks with a device he set up and instructed Nesemah to sit on her back while he tied the woman up with rope. And then he beat his wife with a 2-by-4....
Dahl and Irsan’s eldest daughter Nesemah, who grew up in Texas and Jordan, then took the stand for about two hours, describing what she called “a miserable life” at her father’s home where he repeatedly brutalized her mother....
“I was in the bed and he came behind me and he said, ‘This is something normal. This is what dads do.’ He flipped me over and he raped me,” she said, wiping her eyes. He then told her to take a bath and he tried to drown her in the tub, she told jurors. She fought back and sustained a head injury, she testified.
“He wanted to make it look like it was a suicide or an accident, but he couldn’t because there was a big bulge on my head,” she said...."
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...e-13130101.php
They have to throw away the key on this one......
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August 3, 2018
"The first wife and daughter of a 60-year-old Conroe man convicted last week of capital murder in two 2012 “honor killings” took the witness stand Friday, and both testified he raped them and subjected them to years of persistent, brutal abuse.
Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan’s eldest daughter said she married out of desperation in 1999 to get out of his house only to learn — after her father drugged her and shipped her off to his homeland in Jordan — that her father had shot and killed her new husband.
Irsan’s first wife and his daughter, who is set to resume testimony on Monday, are expected to be the last two prosecution witnesses in the penalty phase of his Houston capital murder trial....
Halting, tearful testimony Friday about rapes and attempted murders brought several people in the courtroom gallery to tears. A female juror held her head in her hands. Irsan showed little reaction, besides occasionally shaking his head in denial.
When Irsan’s daughter came off the witness stand for the day, relatives of her slain husband and those of the two 2012 fatal shooting victims lined up to hold and hug her.
The first witness to take the stand was Irsan’s first wife, Robin Dahl, who told the jury that on the day she met the defendant in 1979 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he raped her. Irsan took her home, compelled her to marry him and in the ensuing 16 years of marriage in the Midwest, Texas and Jordan, he beat her, threatened her with guns, knives, a rope and a chain saw — which she understood he intended to use to cut her into pieces and bury her remains in the backyard, she said....
When Irsan brought home a second wife, he gave her electric shocks with a device he set up and instructed Nesemah to sit on her back while he tied the woman up with rope. And then he beat his wife with a 2-by-4....
Dahl and Irsan’s eldest daughter Nesemah, who grew up in Texas and Jordan, then took the stand for about two hours, describing what she called “a miserable life” at her father’s home where he repeatedly brutalized her mother....
“I was in the bed and he came behind me and he said, ‘This is something normal. This is what dads do.’ He flipped me over and he raped me,” she said, wiping her eyes. He then told her to take a bath and he tried to drown her in the tub, she told jurors. She fought back and sustained a head injury, she testified.
“He wanted to make it look like it was a suicide or an accident, but he couldn’t because there was a big bulge on my head,” she said...."
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...e-13130101.php
They have to throw away the key on this one......
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