A teenage girl was gagged, tied up and thrown into a swamp to drown in an honour killing over her Western behaviour, a court in the Netherlands heard.

Ryan Al Najjar’s body was found gagged, with her hands bound behind her back, ankles taped together, and submerged in a wetland in Lelystad last May.

The 18-year-old had been missing for a week when a passerby discovered her remains.

The Public Prosecution Service formally designated the teenager’s killing as an honour crime.

Her brothers, Mohamed, 23, and Muhanad Al Najjar, 25, have now been put on trial for her murder.

Meanwhile, her father, Khaled al-N, will be tried in absentia after fleeing to Syria.

Prosecutors accused him of ordering Ryan’s killing because she ‘brought shame to the family’ by behaving too ‘Western’ and dating.

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