To D Case in Newquay - so you are comfortable with horrific abuse towards vulnerable women, just so long as its not in our country? This is not progress.

At least in our country, following these sorts of court decisions, some of these abused women stand a chance of surviving and having justice served. Could they even hope to achieve anything similar in their own country?

How can you educate people in a way of life that will not tolerate such abuse if you (i) deport the offenders back to a country where such abuse is tolerated, or worse (ii) do not allow them to come to this country to experience a different way of living in the first place?

Everyone who lives in the UK is subject our laws and breaking these laws should result in the same punishment as it would be if the offenders were native. The courts have made a brave and just decision and one can only hope that it reverberates around the communities where these barbaric practices occur.

G Morgan, Gsy, UK,

we are constantly being told by the hand wringing, tissue tearing holy than thou's that we must honour and respect the customs of those who have chosen to move to our country !!!

david c, purbeck,

These people should be deported not just jailed and never allowed to return to Britain again. If they want to live by backward customs then they can do so in Pakistan where they will be welcomed. And they say slavery is dead!!

George, Glasgow, UK

How is it we allow people from countries who openly practice barbarity toward women ot come here in the first place?. People from these countries should not, under any circumstances be allowed here. It is terrible that we have whole communities openly living here and carrying out barbaric and cruel acts on defenceless women. They must be thrown out and back to the lawlessness of the countries they come from.

D Case, Newquay,

I cannot accept what this family did and they should go to jail and I hope they do to send a strong message to like minded people - this sort of action/inaction is simply unacceptable.
Accepting cultural differences is all very well but what they did is illegal in this country and they should have respected our laws - if they can , good, if not, - bye !

Tony , Cardiff,

unbeleivable. i don't understand why some cultures still perpetuate the violence on new wives and daughter in laws that they themselves must have experienced in their youth. it's an abomination.

bonnie, johannesburg, s africa

jail them and throw away the key! these backward, violent, women hating communities must get the message that liberal 21st century Britain will not tolerate the worst excesses of their culture and when found out will feel the full force of our laws.

Tony Walker, Warrington, England

"She married her cousin" - Talk about keeping it in the family, it seems the violence was also kept in the family. At last though Justice has finally shown a hand that makes sense. Family violence will still occur and we need to punish all those responsible for it, not just the one who does the beating. Ok so the jail system is full, so why are we jailing people for speeding and other NON criminal crimes when there are serious crimnials out there

marcus saw, horndon on the hill, uk

These people disgust me.

V, Leed,

The cruelty of ordinary people is simply mindblowing.

Ian Burgess, Bristol,

Hooray, justice finally prevailed. Am I my brother and in this instance sister's keeper. An unequivocable YES.

evienita, Charlotte, USA