(WA Today) A young Perth Uber driver who slit his wife’s throat two months into their forced marriage told the woman’s brother to “come get your sister’s dead body” as she lay bleeding on the kitchen floor.
The reality of forced marriages in Australia was thrust into the spotlight at Western Australia’s Supreme Court on Thursday as details of the couple’s loveless marriage were read out during the first day of the 25-year-old man’s sentencing.
The court heard Mohammad Ali Halimi and Ruqia Haidari migrated separately to Australia from Afghanistan looking for a better life.
Halimi, whose father was killed by the Taliban when he was a child, settled in Perth while Ms Haidari moved to Shepparton, a rural town about 200 kilometres north-east of Melbourne.
