British woman ‘pressured to marry her Pakistani uncle and have his baby so he can move to Britain’ faces death by stoning
A British woman and her Pakistani uncle whom she married and had a child in a suspected illegal immigration plot could be sentenced to death by stoning.
The couple have been accused by Pakistani prosecutors and clerics of adultery – which carries a severe penalty under Sharia law – after the former company executive in his 30s married her mother’s brother during a visit to the country.
She is now believed to be back in Britain, but her uncle was arrested by local police this week and remains behind bars as investigations continue.
A Pakistani police report claims the British woman voluntarily married him and later fathered his child in an attempt to help him enter Britain.
But in a now-deleted video posted online, the woman said she was ‘pressured’ to travel to Pakistan to marry him so he could try to secure ‘documentation’ that would allow him to go to Britain to move house.
A British woman and her Pakistani uncle whom she married and had a child in a suspected illegal immigration plot could be sentenced to death by stoning
A Pakistani police report claims the British woman voluntarily married him and later fathered his child in an attempt to help him enter Britain
After the wedding in April 2021, she moved into his house in a village in Pakistan for about a month. She says he “started having sex with me” and she became pregnant.
The woman, who later returned to Britain alone to have the child, says he has now abandoned her despite promising to help her financially.
She said: ‘He told me I would help him get to England and in return he would get a car, a house and a lot of money and our lives would be sorted out.
‘Now he doesn’t worry about his baby and me anymore. He has tainted my life and I need help.”
After villagers in Pakistan raised the alarm with religious authorities, the uncle admitted to marrying his niece in front of local elders and Muslim clerics, according to a police report released to the Mail.
The report stated that the elders claimed: ‘The business behind the whole episode was just to gain entry into Britain through the British Pakistani (bride).’
A legal opinion was obtained from the Ministry of Prosecution, which described the woman and her uncle as “the real perpetrators”, the report said.
A Pakistani security official. After the wedding in April 2021, she moved into his house in a village in Pakistan for about a month. She says he “started having sex with me” and she became pregnant
It added: ‘The relationship between a maternal uncle and a real cousin has been revealed, the marriage between them is not allowed in Sharia.
‘Entering into marital relations on the basis of such a marriage is prohibited and falls under the category of adultery.’
Under Sharia law, convicted adulterers can be stoned to death or flogged.
The report adds: “A case is being registered against the suspect for the crimes.”
The uncle went into hiding after reporting the crime and never reached Britain, but this week he was arrested in Pakistan along with one of the witnesses to the wedding.
Speaking from the family’s semi-detached home in Britain, the woman’s father said: ‘We have heard what is happening in Pakistan but we have not heard from her.
‘We didn’t want her to marry him. We did not approve of the marriage and tried to talk her out of it.
“We have nothing to do with her anymore and I don’t know where she lives now.”