A 13-YEAR-OLD EAST END GIRL BECAME PREGNANT IN A S

A 13-YEAR-OLD EAST END GIRL BECAME PREGNANT IN A SECRET LOVE

NEST AFTER RUNNING AWAY WITH HER MARRIED LOVER.

THE COUPLE LIVED AS MAN AND WIFE IN A SOUTH COAST HOTEL FOR

10 DAYS OVER EASTER THIS YEAR.

BUT THE ILLICIT PASSION ENDED WHEN SUFAN ALI WAS ARRESTED FOR

ABDUCTION.

AND SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD TODAY (TUESDAY) THE

SCHOOLGIRL BECAME PREGNANT AFTER THE JAUNT BUT LATER HAD AN ABORTION.

THE COURT HEARD THE SCHOOLGIRL WILLINGLY ELOPED WITH

24-YEAR-OLD SUFAN ALI – AFTER BEING BEATEN BY HER FAMILY BECAUSE OF

HER LOVE FOR HIM.

ALI ADMITTED ABDUCTING THE CHILD AND HAVING UNLAWFUL SEXUAL

INTERCOURSE WITH HER.

HE WAS JAILED FOR 12 MONTHS, SIX OF WHICH WERE

SUSPENDED.

JUDGE DEREK CLARKSON SAID THE CASE WAS ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ WITH

REGARD TO THE KIDNAPPING BUT HE HAD TO SHOW ‘PUBLIC DISAPPROVAL’ OF

UNLAWFUL SEX.

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AND AFTER HEARING ALI AND THE GIRL’S FAMILY WERE FROM

BANGLADESH – WHERE A MAN CAN HAVE TWO WIVES AND GIRLS MARRY AS YOUNG

AS 14 – THE JUDGE SAID HE HAD SYMPATHY FOR THE CASE.

BUT HE ADDED: ‘SHE MAY HAVE GONE WITH YOU OF HER OWN FREE

WILL BUT YOU THEN USED HER AS YOU WOULD A WIFE.

‘IT WAS TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE THAT NO PRECAUTIONS WERE MADE

DURING SEX AND SHE BECAME PREGNANT AS A RESULT.

‘IT CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED JUST BECAUSE SHE CONSENTED.

A MAN HAS

RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE GIRL HE SEES.

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AND THE JUDGE WENT ON: ‘THOSE WHO LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY MUST

ABIDE BY ITS RULES, LAWS AND CONVENTIONS.

THIS MAY NOT HAVE STRUCK

YOU AS CRIMINAL – BUT IT WAS VERY CRIMINAL.

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EARLIER THE COURT HEARD ALI HAD ASKED PERMISSION TO MARRY THE

GIRL.

LATER SHE TOLD HER FAMILY WHO LIVE IN BOW, EAST LONDON, SHE WAS

GOING OUT FOR A KEBAB BUT DISAPPEARED WITH ALI TO HASTINGS FOR 10

DAYS.

ALI DROVE HIS YOUNG SWEETHEART TO THE COAST WHERE THEY BOOKED

A DOUBLE ROOM IN A HOTEL.

AND WHEN HE GOT A JOB THEY MOVED INTO A

FLAT ABOVE THE RESTAURANT WHERE HE WAS WORKING.

BUT THE RESTAURANT OWNER BECAME SUSPICIOUS AND CALLED THE

POLICE.

MISS SUSAN EDWARDS, PROSECUTING, SAID: ‘THE GIRL WAS AT LEAST

AN EQUAL PARTNER IN THE PLAN TO LEAVE HER FAMILY.

THERE WAS NO FORCE

USED AT ALL.

‘PERHAPS THE GREATEST TRAGEDY OF ALL IS THAT DURING THEIR

STAY IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND ALI DID NOT TAKE ANY PRECAUTIONS DURING

SEX AND BY THE TIME OF HER RETURN THE GIRL WAS PREGNANT.

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AND SHE SAID ALI, WHO HAS A WIFE IN BANGLADESH, MET THE GIRL

LAST YEAR WHEN HE STAYED FOR A WHILE WITH THE GIRL’S FAMILY.

‘THERE WAS SOON A BOND BETWEEN HIM AND THE GIRL.

IT WAS

OBVIOUS SHE HAD AN INFATUATION FOR HIM AND HE WAS VERY AFFECTIONATE

TOWARDS HER – BUT THE FAMILY DISAPPROVED.

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MR SIBGHATULLAH KADRI (CORRECT), DEFENDING, SAID THAT ON THE

DAY OF THE ABDUCTION, ALI WENT TO THE GIRL’S HOUSE TO SAY GOODBYE.

BUT SHE WAS DESPERATE TO GO WITH HIM.

‘AND HE TOOK HER VERY

RELUCTANTLY.

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HE DESCRIBED THE GIRL’S MISSING 10 DAYS: ‘THE GIRL WAS ONLY

13 YEARS OLD BUT SOMEHOW ALI FOOLED THE HOTEL INTO BELIEVING THEY

WERE A MARRIED COUPLE.

‘THEY GOT A DOUBLE ROOM WITH A DOUBLE BED TO MAINTAIN THE

DECEPTION.

ALI SHOULD HAVE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR BUT GAVE IN TO HIS

PASSIONS – AND SLEPT WITH HER.

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MR KADRI SAID AT THE HOTEL AND LATER IN THE FLAT THE COUPLE

SLEPT TOGETHER SEVERAL TIMES.

AND HE CLAIMED THE MAN WAS A VICTIM OF A ‘CLASH OF CULTURES’

BECAUSE IN THE EAST HE WOULD BE ALLOWED A SECOND WIFE AND GIRLS

MARRIED AS YOUNG AS 14.

‘AND MAYBE THIS YOUNG MAN STILL REMAINS IN THE OLD WORLD OF

HIS FATHERS.

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