- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
GUILTY FORCED MARRIAGE VERDICT WILL HELP GIRLS SPEAK OUT: CAMPAIGNERS CAMPAIGNERS welcomed last week’s landmark conviction relating to forced marriage, saying it sent a strong message to families planning to coerce their daughters into marriage, and would empower girls to speak out. In the first successful prosecution of its kind in Britain, a mother who duped her daughter into travelling to Pakistan to enter a forced marriage was sentenced last Wednesday (23) to four-and-a-half years in prison. The woman was found guilty last Tuesday (22) following a trial at Birmingham crown court, where a jury heard how the girl sobbed as…
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