Asian [Read as MOSLEM] brides 'being hidden'
by Mark Hookham Westminster Reporter
YOUNG Asian women fleeing abusive relationships in Sheffield are being hidden in housing association properties because their husbands or relatives are successfully tracking them down to a refuge in the city.
Taxi drivers are taking family members who are hunting for women who have escaped domestic violence or forced marriages straight to what is supposed to be a safe bolthole, it has been claimed.
The revelation was one of a number of shocking examples included in a report on "honour crime" by the Centre for Social Cohesion.
Sana Bukhari, an outreach worker at Ashiana refuge in Sheffield, told the report's authors that it is now safer to house girls in housing association-owned accommodation.
She said: "We don't house girls in the refuge anymore, instead we house them with the local housing association because if their families are looking for them then all they have to do is roll up to the train station and ask the taxi drivers who will bring them straight here.
"All the taxi drivers know where we are and bring people looking for girls straight here."
The report - entitled Crimes of the Community: Honour based violence in the UK - has found that informal networks exist to track down and punish women perceived as bringing shame on their family and community.
It found that in many cases, runaway brides have been deliberately returned to their homes or betrayed to their families by policemen, councillors and civil servants of immigrant origin.
The report claims honour-based violence is no longer an issue of first generation migrants importing attitudes from "back home" but is "indigenous and self perpetuating" as it is sustained by third and fourth generation immigrants.
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