A HUSBAND who subjected his teenage wife to a terrifying rape ordeal during their arranged marriage has been jailed for five years.

The 19-year-old victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was attacked at her family home in Huddersfield while other relatives were downstairs, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

The 25-year-old husband followed his wife upstairs when she went to bed and told her: “'I'm going to do it and you can't stop me.”'

During her ordeal the teenager, who later moved into a hostel, had a hand put over her mouth as she attempted to scream.

She was also bitten and hit in the face causing her nose to bleed.

Prosecutor Caroline Wigin said after the attack in January the teenager went downstairs, but the family were reluctant to allow her to report the incident.

The teenager then barricaded herself in her room using a wardrobe.

She left the house the next morning to seek help from a doctor.

“'At that time she was effectively isolated from her family because no-one in her family was prepared to support her in her complaint,”' Miss Wigin told the court.

A doctor who examined the teenager found substantial bruising on her body as well as a bite mark.

“This offence has had a devastating effect on the 19-year-old complainant who had to live at a hostel since this offence,” said Miss Wigin.

But Miss Wigin said there was hope of a reconciliation with her family after they later gave their support to her complaint and her father severed relations with the family of her husband.

The court heard the teenager was 17 when she went to Pakistan and met her husband for the first time on her wedding day.

But Miss Wigin said the arranged marriage was unhappy from the start and the teenager later tried to stop her husband getting a visa.

The 25-year-old, who was a man of good character, entered the country in November last year, but Miss Wigin said the marriage continued to be unhappy.

Her husband pleaded guilty to a charge of rape last month and the court heard that the victim was anxious that he now give her a religious divorce.

Jailing the husband Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC told him: “If you have any honour left you will give your wife a divorce.”'

The judge made a recommendation that the husband should be deported after serving his prison term and he also made an order banning him from having any contact with his wife.

“'You took, with considerable violence, your wife against her wishes and you raped her,”' said the judge.

“The evidence is of force, smothering, biting and assault.

“This was not a forced marriage. This was a marriage which was arranged, sending that 17-year-old to Pakistan to marry you her first cousin.” He said the teenager clearly had no love for the defendant and had regretted every moment of the marriage.

He said the family had initially offered no support, but added: “It is to be noted however that having recognised the distinction between their duty to their daughter and their duty to their culture (the) family are now very much recognising the trauma and ordeal to which everyone has subjected this young woman.

“The reality is that at the end of the day, believing whatever you believed, you raped a 19-year-old in appalling circumstances,” said Judge Durham Hall.

Barrister Abdul Iqbal, for the husband, said his client now accepted that he had behaved in an “'abominable way”'.

Mr Iqbal said there was considerable pressure from all concerned for the marriage to work, but his client accepted that what may prevail elsewhere in the world was absolutely unacceptable here.