Divorced after five days: 'My sham husband made me believe he loved me'

Jane - whose real name the BBC has agreed not to publish - said she had met him on the Muslim marriage website Muzz 10 months earlier. She told the BBC she believed their relationship to be genuine and did not question what was happening when he subsequently proposed. "He made me believe that he loved me and that he wanted to build a life with me, so I had no reason to really doubt him," she said.

On 2 June, Jane - a convert to Islam - went to Brierfield in Lancashire for a nikah - an Islamic marriage contract or ceremony under Sharia law. Such contracts, however, are not the same as a civil legal marriage and are not legally recognised as marriage in England and Wales. Jane said she wanted to get married in her home city of Glasgow, surrounded by friends and family, but said her future husband objected to a wedding in Scotland.

Jane said the ceremony in Brierfield took place in the presence of two imams who acted as witnesses and the couple then spent two nights at a hotel.