‘Can’t do this in Australia’: Court weighs up jail for mum who coerced daughter into murderous marriage A woman faces deportation to Afghanistan as a court weighs up whether she goes to jail for forcing her daughter into a murderous marriage.

July 23, 2024   

(NCA NewsWire) A woman who coerced her daughter into an arranged marriage that ended with the husband murdering the bride could be jailed for the act, a court has heard.

[Sakina] Muhammad Jan, 48 of Shepparton, faced the Melbourne County Court on Tuesday.

In May, a jury found Jan guilty of coercing her daughter Ruqia Haidari, 21, into marrying Perth man Mohammad Ali Halimi in November 2019.

A criminal case of coercion into marriage is unprecedented in Australia because of relatively new federal laws banning the practice and the underground nature of such arrangements.

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