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| Avan Najmadeen |
The BBC News website has a report in its Stoke and Staffordshire section headlined Man jailed for life for murdering wife in immigration row.
Failed Iranian asylum seeker Dana Abdullah stabbed his estranged wife Avan Najmadeen to death "in a row over immigration", the BBC report says.
Failed Iranian asylum seeker Dana Abdullah stabbed his estranged wife Avan Najmadeen to death "in a row over immigration", the BBC report says.
Reading it you are told that the murdered lady had "refused to support his application to remain in the UK".
Read on through the piece's 15 paragraphs though till you read the very last paragraph and you'll find, almost as an afterthought, something startling:
Other motives for the murder included Ms Najmadeen "starting a new relationship and converting to Christianity", Det Ch Insp Downing said.
And there the BBC report ends.
Weirdly, the Independent has an extra angle on this that the BBC omits altogether. Its headline is Dana Abdullah: Illegal immigrant paedophile who murdered his estranged wife is jailed and its report begins by calling him "a convicted paedophile and illegal immigrant".
Why does the BBC's report omit the fact that this Iranian illegal immigrant is a convicted paedophile?
The Independent goes on to say, "Stafford Crown Court heard Abdullah had threatened to kill Ms Najmadeen before, claiming she had “dishonoured” him after converting to Christianity".
As so often, the BBC gives us half the story on these kinds of story and arranges the rest of the story with the utmost care.
