| The uncle and brother of a young Muslim woman have been jailed for a total of seven years for abducting her and forcing her back to her Yorkshire home after a row over an arranged marriage. The victim, Abda "Bibi" Bashir, 21, was taken from the streets of Dundee in Scotland and driven back to her Sheffield home, where she was held overnight. She managed to escape after dropping a note begging for help from an upstairs window to alert passers-by, who called in police. Taxi driver Lal Hussain, 64, of Goddard Hall Road, Fir Vale, Sheffield, was jailed for two years and his nephew Abdul Mutalub Bashir, 31, of Rothay Road, Grimesthorpe, received five years. Sentencing the men at the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Nimmo Smith, said: "This court does recognise we live in a multi-cultural society and due allowance must be made for ethnic, religious and cultural differences. In a way though, there is no need for such allowances to be made because the situation that arose here is one found in many families, regardless of ethnic, religious and cultural differences. That is the situation where a child of the family becomes adult and decides to leave home and lead her own life as she chooses." |