British Man Faces Jail After Keeping Wife as a Slave

Londoner Safraz Ahmed, 34, faces jail after pleading guilty to keeping his wife as a slave
The Independent
Mar. 28, 2016

A Londoner who brought his Pakistani bride to the UK to use her as a slave and beat her so badly she tried to end her life faces jail.

Safraz Ahmed, 34, was charged with conspiracy to hold a person in domestic servitude, initially denying the offence.

But he later changed his plea to guilty, and faces jail when he is sentenced at Woolwich Crown court later this month.

The case marks the first British conviction for slavery involving a man and wife.

Ahmed married Sumara Iram in 2006 in an arranged marriage in her home city Gurjat, in the Pakistani state of Punjab.

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