Isolated and alone, Sara says she felt powerless when the husband she was forced to marry in Pakistan became abusive. She was 21.
“He used to light a lighter on my face to scare me, [he said] ‘I will burn you’,” she says.
She says his controlling behaviour got worse when she was brought to the UK, and moved in with his parents in 2022.
Instead of the happy married life promised by her family, she was then attacked by her husband and forced to work as a slave by her in-laws.
