British woman ‘facing death by stoning after marrying Pakistani uncle’
A British woman faces a sentence of death by stoning after she was allegedly forced to marry her Pakistani uncle and have his baby in an immigration scam.
The woman, who is a former company director in her thirties, married her mother’s brother during a visit to Pakistan in April 2021, according to MailOnline.
For around a month after the wedding, she moved into her husband’s home where he ‘starting having sex with her’, and she fell pregnant, she said.
A Pakistani police report alleges the British woman willingly married her uncle and conceived his child in order to help him get into Britain.
But in a video posted online which has now been deleted, the woman argues she was ‘pressured’ into travelling to Asia to marry her uncle in order to help him gain documentation for a move to the UK.
She said: ‘He told me that I would help him in his travel to England and in return he will get a car, home and lot of money and our life would be settled.
‘Now he is not bothering about his baby and me. He has tarnished my life and I need help.’
The pair have been accused of adultery, a crime which carries the punishment under Shariah law of lashing or death by stoning.
The uncle allegedly admitted, in front of local elders and Islamic clerics, to marrying his niece after his neighbours raised the alarm with religious authorities.
The police report said: ‘The matter behind the whole episode was just to get entry into the United Kingdom through the British Pakistani (bride).
‘The relationship between maternal uncle and real niece has been revealed, the marriage between them is not permissible in Shariah.
‘Establishing marital relations on the basis of such a marriage is forbidden and falls under the category of adultery.’
The uncle went into hiding in Pakistan following reports his alleged adultery. He was arrested this week along with one of the witnesses to the marriage.
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