A man from West Norwood has pleaded guilty to murder after an alleged "honour killing" in which a body was found in a suitcase in Birmingham.

On Tuesday the Old Bailey was told how the Kurdish victim, 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha, from Mitcham, had said her father Mahmod Babakir Mahmod, 50, and her uncle Ari Mahmod Babakir Agha, 52, were trying to kill her.

The prosecution said Banaz's father and uncle conspired to kill her after she shamed the strict Muslim family by leaving her arranged marriage and falling in love with a new man, Rahmat Suleimani.

Detectives launched a murder inquiry after she went missing from the family home on January 23, 2005.

Her body was only found on April 28, more than 100 miles away in Birmingham.

Mahmod and Ari Mahmod, of Sandy Lane, Mitcham, deny murdering her between January 22 and February 3 last year. Ari Mahmod and another defendant, Darbaz Maref-Rasull, 24, of Hounslow, Middlesex, deny charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

Mohamad Hama, 30, from Uffington Road, West Norwood, pleaded guilty to murder. He is believed to be a friend of Ari Mahmod.

Pshtewan Hama, 26, from Hounslow, a friend of Maref-Rasull and Rahmat Suleimani, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. He and Mohamad Hama will be sentenced at the end of the trial.

The trial continues.