Shafilea Ahmed's sister has denied telling a friend she was beaten by her parents and that they threatened to kill her.

21-year-old Mevish Ahmed was giving evidence for a second day in the trial of her parents Iftikhar and Farzana who are accused of murdering 17-year-old Shafilea at their home in Warrington in September 2003.

Andrew Edis QC for the prosecution, told the jury about an incident in April 2009, when Mevish Ahmed was arrested on suspicion of stealing money from the family home.

He said: "You spoke to Shahin and told her that afterwards you were beaten by your mother and your father, thrown on the floor and they said that you should go to Pakistan right now and talked about finishing you and threatened to kill you."

Miss Ahmed said: "No, I fell outside the house."

The prosecution claims that Miss Ahmed had fallen out with her parents but "returned to the family" after they promised to withdraw the theft allegation.

On Monday Chester Crown Court heard extracts of writings made by Miss Ahmed which appeared to corroborate statements her sister Alesha earlier made to the jury about Shafilea's treatment by her parents and the night of her death.

Mevish Ahmed described the documents as "free writing" and said they were all pieces of "fiction".

Earlier in the trial, older sister Alesha Ahmed claimed her parents pushed Shafilea on to the settee in their house and forced a plastic bag into the teenager's mouth, suffocating her in front of their other children.

The couple deny murder.