forced marriage

Jaswant Narwal, CPS national lead for "honour"-based abuse, female genital mutilation and forced marriage, said FGM was "a form of violence against women and girls".

Kaky, who now lives in Swansea in Wales, was found guilty of two charges - forced marriage and conspiracy to commit FGM.

The view that beards on women were a rare exception sometimes reinforced the stature of those women, who in the case of Saint Wilgefortis was said to receive her hair as a miraculous gift from God, escaping a forced marriage to a heathen only to then be crucified by her father in imitation of Christ.

Her sister’s pregnancy and forced marriage happened soon after her return from a so-called initiation camp.

Personally, I was relieved not to bear witness to another forced marriage between script and score.