(BBC) An imam has pleaded guilty after two teenagers were allowed to marry each other in a mosque.
Northamptonshire Police said Ashraf Osmani had been charged under forced marriage legislation after it was alleged he conducted a nikah wedding ceremony involving two 16-year-olds at Northampton Central Mosque.
Osmani, 52, a Bangladesh-born British national from Northampton, is the serving imam at the mosque.
At Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Thursday he pleaded guilty to charges under Section 121 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, as amended by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022, and will be sentenced on 20 November.
