http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2282623,00.html
Andrew Norfolk
"A police chief accuses the Government of abandoning young women to a life of violence
THE lives of young women might be ruined by the Government’s failure to make forced marriages illegal, a senior police officer has warned. Commander Steve Allen of the Metropolitan Police said that a decision by ministers last month to drop proposed legislation had been greeted by some ethnic minorities as a signal that forced marriage was acceptable."
Wicked wedlock
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2282799,00.html
"Forced marriage is a crime and should be recognised as such. Forced marriage is an abuse of fundamental rights and a form of domestic violence which cannot be justified on religious or cultural grounds. So said Baroness Scotland of Asthal, the Home Office minister, when she began examining ways to strengthen the law against a practice that condemns many young British women to lives of abuse, misery and virtual slavery. Her eventual answer — that extra training for professionals will suffice — has come as a devastating disappointment to many in the communities affected."
