A British woman and her Pakistani uncle whom she married and had a child in an alleged illegal immigration plot could be sentenced to death by stoning.
The couple have been charged with adultery, which carries severe punishment under Shariah law, by Pakistani prosecutors and clerics after the former company director, in her thirties, married her mother’s brother during a visit to the country.
He is now believed to have returned to the UK, but his uncle was arrested by local police this week and is behind bars while the investigation continues.
A Pakistani police report alleges that the British woman willingly married him and then conceived his child to try to help him reach Britain.
But in a now-deleted video posted online, the woman said she was “pressured” to travel to Pakistan and marry him so he could try to get the “documentation” that would allow her to move to the UK.
A British woman and her Pakistani uncle whom she married and had a child in an alleged illegal immigration plot could be sentenced to death by stoning.
A Pakistani police report alleges that the British woman willingly married him and then conceived his child to try to help him reach Britain.
After the wedding in April 2021, she moved to her house in a village in Pakistan for about a month. She says he “started having sex with me” and she got pregnant.
The woman, who later returned to the UK alone to have the child, says he has now abandoned her despite promising financial help.
She said: “He told me he would help him on his trip to England and in return he would get a car, a house and a lot of money and our life would be settled.”
‘Now she no longer worries about her baby and me. It has stained my life and I need help.’
After Pakistani villagers raised the alarm with religious authorities, the uncle admitted to marrying his niece in front of local elders and Islamic clerics, according to a police report published in the Mail.
The report said the elders alleged that “the issue behind the entire episode was simply gaining entry to the UK through the British Pakistani (girlfriend).”
A legal opinion was obtained from the Department of Public Prosecutions that described the woman and her uncle as “the real culprits,” according to the report.
A Pakistani security official. After the wedding in April 2021, she moved to her house in a village in Pakistan for about a month. She says he ‘started having sex with me’ and she got pregnant
He added: ‘The relationship between the maternal uncle and the real niece has been revealed, marriage between them is not permitted in Shariah.
“Establishing marital relations on the basis of such a marriage is prohibited and falls under the category of adultery.”
Under Sharia law, convicted adulterers risk being stoned or whipped.
The report adds: “Proceedings are being opened against those accused of the crimes.”
The uncle went into hiding after being reported and never arrived in the UK, but this week he was arrested in Pakistan along with one of the witnesses to the marriage.
Speaking from the family’s terraced house 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 do not approve of the marriage and tried to dissuade her.
“We have nothing to do with her anymore and I don’t know where she lives now.”