Less than six months after Ruqia Haidari was forced to marry Mohammad Ali Halimi, he killed the 21-year-old at their home in Perth.
A mother should be jailed for forcing her daughter to marry the man who would become her killer, say prosecutors.
Mohammad Ali Halimi was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 19 years for the murder of Ruqia Haidari.Now her mother Sakina Muhammad Jan, 48, is the first person in Australia to be convicted of causing a person to enter into a forced marriage since it was criminalised more than a decade ago.“The community needs to know you can’t do this, you can’t operate in this manner in Australia,” prosecutor Darren Renton told the County Court in Melbourne.
Jan held a position of trust in Haidari’s life as her only living parent and the offending represented a “significant breach” of that, he said.However, Renton accepted Jan could not have known Mr Halimi was going to murder her daughter.“All the evidence was that he was being promoted as ‘a good boy’; sadly, he wasn’t.”
Jan, who continues to deny the offence, had suffered shaming from her community and been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, he said.“It’s obviously a source of great shame for her and one that she will visibly carry in her community for life.”
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