Mother jailed for four-and-a-half years for duping daughter into forced marriage

A mother who duped her teenage daughter to go to Pakistan and forced her to marry has been jailed for four-and-a-half years, in the first successful prosecution of its type.

The unemployed woman, whom a judge said acted with "cowardice" and "deceit", was convicted Tuesday of tricking the victim to go to Pakistan for a false marriage and forced marriage and also convicted of perjury for lying about the incident in the High Court.