London: A mother who tricked her teenage daughter into travelling to Pakistan to marry an older man has been jailed for four and a half years after becoming the first person in England to be convicted of forced marriage.

Campaigners said Tuesday's landmark conviction sent a strong message to families planning to coerce their daughters into marriage, and would empower girls to speak out.

The jury at Birmingham Crown Court in central England heard the girl appeared to have been betrothed to a man 16 years her senior on a visit to Pakistan when she was 13.

The man had sex with her and the girl underwent an abortion on her return to Britain, prosecutors said.

The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took her daughter back to Pakistan in 2016 under the guise of a holiday, but after they arrived the girl was told she would be married.