- Tuesday, April 30, 2024
By: Lauren Codling
A mother who duped her daughter into travelling to Pakistan to enter a forced marriage was sentenced on Wednesday (23) to four-and-a-half years in prison, following the first successful prosecution of its kind in Britain. The woman was found guilty on Tuesday (22) following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court, in central England, where a jury heard how the girl sobbed as she was wedded to a male relative 16 years her senior. “You had cruelly deceived her. She was frightened, alone, held against her will, being forced into a marriage she dreaded,” said Judge Patrick Thomas QC in sentencing.…
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