A mother who forced her daughter to marry a relative almost twice her age has been convicted in the first successful prosecution in England.
The woman duped the then 17-year-old into travelling to Pakistan to wed the man, who was 16 years her senior.
Years before the ceremony, the girl was entered into a "marriage contract" with the man and became pregnant aged 13.
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court found the mother guilty of two counts of forced marriage. [BBC] Read more
