COPENHAGEN, Feb 28: Denmark’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a life sentence against a Pakistani man for plotting the death of his teenage daughter because she married without her family’s consent, the court announced.

The Supreme Court judges also upheld the sentences of eight other people who were convicted in June 2006 of involvement in the murder of 18-year-old woman, who was shot twice in the heart by her elder brother in September 2005.

The eight had been sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight to 16 years.

Five of the eight were members of the victim’s family, including the victim’s brother and two of her uncles who received 16-year sentences.

The brother had testified in a lower court last year that the killing was an accident.

Ghazala Khan had secretly wed Emil Khan, who was also seriously injured in the attack, thought to have been carried out in the belief that the marriage had tarnished her family’s honour.—AFP