Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

the CPS will not answer the question

it would probably help if you told the whole story ...... i don't pretend to know it, nor even what you mean by ASIAN, as that covers several billion people, let alone from what unimpeachable source you have gleaned your so-called facts

probably because it's nothing to do with the CPS in the first place!

TANKER - perhaps it's because if our Government tried to stop it all the human rights nutters, such as Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, would be stirring up all sorts of sh-- about it.

Priceless! I could listen to TANK all day :O)

how can they jail FOSTER FOR RUNNING away with is girl friend who did not object
and says she loves him and still says she will wait for him

yet hundreds of young Asian girls are sent back home to marry some one they have never met then return to the uk
are you saying the government police close their eyes and to scared to do anything
if the people running the law in the uk are to scared to speak out then they should resign

doog if its human rights then FOSTER should be set free
no one should be above the law .

BUT SOME ARE

MrT .... i know you find it more difficult that most, but try following one line of questioning at a time instead of hopping aroung like jimminy cricket

cynic it is the CPS who decide if some one as broken the law .

cynic if the uk has laws then it should apply to all .
even if it upsets certain people if they do not like the uk laws
then leave the uk or abide with the laws of the land

i'm almost certain that you're wrong, as you are most times ..... unless i am much mistaken, the CPS is not pro-active and will only decide whether or not to prosecute when another party - e.g. the police - have presented a case to them

Its all in the header........

goldfinger - 09 Jun 2005 12:25

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF............................... ends

Plus Ian (management) comments that he regulary policies this thread.

Hilary if you dont like, go away.

you dont have to read whats said here.

Alternatively use the filter function that the management have provided you with .......or are you scared of missing something.

A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK's youngest victim of forced marriage.

She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government's Forced Marriage Unit in the last year.

The figures have emerged as the public consultation into criminalising forced marriage in England, Wales and Northern Ireland comes to an end.

Amy Cumming, joint head of the Forced Marriage Unit, said 29% of the cases it dealt with last year involved minors.

"The youngest of these was actually five years old, so there are children involved in the practice across the school age range," she said.

To protect the child, the authorities have not disclosed details of the case or where the marriage took place.

But the case comes as no surprise to the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO), which deals with more than 100 cases of forced marriage a year.
just for you CYNIC

cynic do you ever read what is going on in the uk or do you refuse to read the truth
and facts

TANKER you got that wrong, it Hays you are refering to.

Well it sounds like the post above is being investigated. It says ", the authorities have not disclosed details of the case".

That sounds like a 'case'.

Forced marriage: Girl aged five among 400 minors helpedBy Poonam Taneja

BBC Asian Network

from the bbc

so it must be true

stuart hall sentence to be looked at perhaps my letter as been looked at

one thing's for sure and true and that's that MrT blathers away at nineteen to the dozen under some illusion that he is the truth and the light ...... others may be more cynical and have their doubts

A 13-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal injuries four days after a family-arranged marriage to a man almost twice her age, a human rights group said.

Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen's Hajja province, the Shaqaeq Arab Forum for Human Rights said, quoting a medical report.


She was married the previous Monday in a traditional arrangement known as a 'swap marriage', in which the brother of the bride also married the sister of the groom, it said.

Sigrid Kaag, regional director for UNICEF, said in a statement that the United Nations child agency was 'dismayed by the death of yet another child bride in Yemen'.

'Elham is a martyr of abuse of children's lives in Yemen and a clear example of what is justified by the lack of limits on the age of marriage,' SAF said in a statement.

A medical report from al-Thawra hospital said she suffered a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding.


The Yemeni rights group said the g


no child should have to put up with this . the men should be hung