Algid Murthre

Murder by Race Algid Murthre

Joe is a white boy who falls in love with the cousin of his best friend, an Asian boy called Mohamed. Noura returns Joe's love and Noura becomes pregnant. Noura's father finds out about the relationship and vows to kill the infidel who has defiled his daughter. The two lovers flee to London only to become entrapped in a house of ill-repute. Joe is required to work as a servant in the brothel and Noura is forced into heroin addiction and prostitution. Noura is pregnant with Joe's child and even though they escape from London back to the North, there is no way back from the complicated entanglement that engulfs them both. The retribution that is wreaked upon them as Noura's father seeks vengeance for their illicit relationship leads to Noura being murdered in an honour-killing and Joe giving himself up to the police. Noura is dead and so is their unborn child. Joe is accused of assault, theft, rape and murder. Joe's mother hopes for mercy from the courts but that is not to be Joe's fate.