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Haroon Ilyas, 42, from Crumpsall, Manchester, pictured, was with his father and brother when they tried to return a 24-year-old woman to her family so she could be married to her drug dealing cousin
A woman fleeing an arranged marriage was tracked down to a secret safe house and attacked whilst she was in hiding with her younger sister.
The victim, 24, had quit her family home with her sister after she was designated a husband who had been in prison for drugs offences.
But despite being assigned a place in hiding by social services the two young women were found just five months later and confronted by a gang of three men who had been dispatched to return them home.
The victims, who cannot be named, struggled with their attackers but managed to shut the front door in their faces before an eye witness alerted police.
The pair both escaped injury and are thought to be have been rehoused elsewhere. It is not known how the men found about the location of the safe house.
At Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester Haroon Ilyas, 42, from Crumpsall, Manchester was jailed for five years after he admitted using violence to a coerce someone into marriage and breaching a court order.
Ilyas' father Mohammed, aged 76 also of Cheetham Hill, and brother Quisam, 38, of Bury were each jailed for nine months after admitting other charges relating to the attack. Allegations against all three men of attempted kidnapping were dropped.
The court heard the victim had taken out a forced marriage protection order against her own family after learning she had been ordered to marry one of her cousins.
Miss Shirlie Duckworth prosecuting said: 'The groom she was supposed to be marrying had been remanded in custody for being concerned in supply of
