Birmingham woman guilty of duping daughter into forced marriage

Jury at Birmingham crown court convicts woman in first successful prosecution of its kind in the UK

A woman from Birmingham has been found guilty of deceiving her teenage daughter into travelling to Pakistan and forcing her to marry a man nearly twice her age in the first successful prosecution of its kind.

The jury at Birmingham crown court heard that the teenager, who become pregnant by the man when she was just 13, had sobbed as the marriage took place.

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