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UK convicts couple for arranging marriage of teenage sons in Pak
short by Soheib Ahsan / on Saturday, 16 May, 2026
UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) convicted a British-Pakistani couple on Friday for taking their teenage sons to Pakistan for marriage. "The [couple from Nottingham] took the boys to Pakistan when they were 17 with the specific purpose of finding them someone to marry," CPS said. The couple was given two-month suspended prison sentence and 100 hours of unpaid community work.