Their Love Crossed the Cultural Divide -- And for 13 Years They Lived On the Run, Under Threat of Death From Her Family.Then, Just As They Thought They Were Safe, Came the Cruellest Twist of All
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BEFORE he goes to sleep, Jack Briggs goes through his nightly ritual. First, he checks there is a knife within easy reach beside his bed and a baseball bat beneath it.
It has been the same routine ever since he ran away with his sweetheart, Zena, 17 years ago. She came from a Muslim family and was supposed to wed a cousin in an arranged marriage -- not Jack, a white British man ten years her senior.See the full content of this document
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Their Love Crossed the Cultural Divide -- And for 13 Years They Lived On the Run, Under Threat of Death From Her Family.Then, Just As They Thought They Were Safe, Came the Cruellest Twist of All
And so it was that, under threat of death, the couple fled their homes and have been in hiding ever since.
Now, for the first time, the Mail can reveal that the couple, who had battled not just prejudice but violence, have separated after the strain of so many years of clandestine existence finally proved too great.But remarkably, says Jack, that changes nothing. Their lives are still in danger.'The threat to me and Zena is still there, and I don't think it will make a jot of difference when her family finds out that we have split up,' he says. 'In their eyes, the damage has been done.'It goes back to the whole honour-based culture. We have put a mark -- a st...See the full content of this document
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