Bradford Woman Jailed for Drugging Daughter

27 July 2012, 19:38 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

A grandmother from Bradford has been jailed for four years for kidnapping and drugging her own daughter after she refused to marry the man her family wanted her to.

Mother-of-eight Shamim Akhtar, 59, was jailed with her son, Shamrez Khan, and her son-in-law, Zahid Mahmood, by a judge who heard that they abused Naila Afsar, then 23, out of “some misplaced sense of warped family honour”.

34 year old Khan, was given a five year sentence and 37 year old Mahmood, was jailed for four years at Burnley Crown Court.

Sentencing Akhtar, Judge Simon Newell told her: “She's your youngest daughter and your role was to care for her, support her and look after her best interests.

“Instead you chose to control, drug and abuse her in the interests of the family reputation.''

Akhtar, of Kirkwall Drive, Bradford, was found guilty of kidnap, false imprisonment and two counts of administering a drug after a four-week trial at Preston Crown Court earlier this year.

Khan, of Moore Avenue, Bradford, and Mahmood, of Empress Street, Accrington, Lancashire, both pleaded guilty to the same offences part-way through the same trial.