British woman married Pakistani uncle, had his baby to help him get into UK: Report

A British woman with roots in Pakistan married her Pakistani uncle and had a baby with him, as per a Daily Mail report. The two now face the risk of being sentenced to death by stoning.

The Daily Mail reported that the woman and her uncle have been accused of adultery by Pakistani prosecutors. The woman, a former company director in her thirties, married her mother's brother while visiting Pakistan. Notably, adultery is considered a serious offence under Shariah law, and the culprits can be stoned to death.

The man was arrested a few days back and is in a Pakistani jail, while the woman has reportedly returned to the UK.

As per a Pakistani police report, the British woman married her uncle out of her own free will and conceived his child to try to help him get into Britain. However, the publication reported that a video on social media, which has now been deleted, showed the woman saying that she was forced to travel to Pakistan and marry the man so he could secure "documentation" to move to the UK.

The wedding took place in April 2021, after which the woman moved into his home in a village in Pakistan. She stayed with him for around a month and says her uncle "started having sex" with her, and she became pregnant.

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The woman claims that he abandoned her and her child after she moved back to the UK to have the baby. "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," she said.

"Now he is not bothering about his baby and me. He has tarnished my life and I need help."

Woman and her uncle the 'real culprits'

The Daily Mail quoted a police report according to which the villagers alerted the religious authorities about the marriage, after which the uncle admitted to marrying his niece. 

As per the village elders, "The matter behind the whole episode was just to get entry into the United Kingdom through the British Pakistani [bride]."

The police report carried a legal opinion obtained from the Department of Prosecution, which calls the woman and her uncle "the real culprits" and "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."