The mother of a young Afghani woman who was murdered by her husband has been accused of forcing her daughter into an arranged marriage for a $15,000 payment.
Sakina Muhammad Jan, 45, is facing a single charge of causing another person to enter a forced marriage, and faced a court hearing for the first time on Wednesday.
Police will allege Ms Jan pressured Ruqia Haidari, 21, to marry 25-year-old Uber driver Mohammad Ali Halimi in November 2019.
The couple met just four times when they were married in front of hundreds of guests just outside of Shepparton, 180km north of Melbourne, in a community hall in Mooroopna.
Sakina Muhammad Jan, 45, is facing a single charge of causing another person to enter a forced marriage, and faced Shepparton Magistrates Court for the first time on Wednesday
The marriage quickly soured after the couple flew to the opposite side of Australia to Perth just ten days after Ms Haidari finished her last year at McGuire College.
The young girl repeatedly rebuffed her husband's attempts to consummate the marriage, which saw him angrily phone her brother several times.
On January 18, Muhammad Taqi Haidari listened helplessly as the pair argued not realising this would be the last time he heard his sister's voice, the Herald Sun reported.
Mr Haidari would however, speak to his brother-in-law again, when he phoned back to tell him: 'If you're a man, come get your sister's dead body.'
During the time between calls, Halimi found a stainless steel knife from the kitchen and slit Ms Haidari's throat twice, Western Australia's Supreme Court eventually determined.
Halimi was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this year.
During the first day of a three-day hearing this week, Shepparton Magistrates Court heard Ms Jan visited her daughter in Perth to teach her how to cook and clean.
