UK - Time to outlaw forced marriages

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When Aisha Ali, also 16, protested at her family's plans to marry her off, her father transformed from loving parent to violent abuser. She had already seen her sisters forcibly married on what they had all been told was a family trip to Pakistan. "My dad used to always encourage me to get a job, do further education, and then he just changed and said I had to get married," she says. "He got violent, abusive, and said I'd lost the honour of our family. And once a girl does that, parents can do anything - they get the younger people in the family to do the killing, they don't do it themselves, they get the younger ones to do it."