Woman who forced daughter to marry her killer should be jailed to deter others, Victorian court told

Sakina Muhammad Jan, 48, to be sentenced on Monday after becoming first person found guilty of forced marriage

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The first person to be found guilty of forced marriage in Australia - and whose daughter was killed by the man she wedded - needs to be imprisoned to deter others from engaging in the practice, a Victorian court has heard.

A Victorian county court jury in May found Shepparton woman Sakina Muhammad Jan, 48, guilty of coercing her 20-year-old daughter to marry an older Perth man in 2019, who murdered her in January 2020.

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