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A cruel family who left an arranged marriage bride in a vegetative state by 'dousing her with chemicals' and 'force-feeding her pills' have been jailed.
Ambreen Fatima Sheikh was 30 when she was given the anti-diabetes drug glimepiride, which induced catastrophic brain injury, after she was brought to the UK from Pakistan following an arranged marriage.
She was also doused in a caustic substance, probably some kind of cleaning fluid, as she was abused in the house in the days leading up to her admission to hospital on August 1, 2015.
It was initially thought Ms Sheikh, now 39, would die - but when her ventilator was turned off in hospital, she began to breathe for herself.
The court heard that she has been left unaware of herself or her environment, without motor response or response to pain, and will never recover. Prosecutors said she only survives by being fed through a tube and will eventually die as a consequence of what happened to her, although this may not happen for many years.
Sentencing judge, Mrs Justice Lambert said she rarely left the house and never by herself. She had no independent income, no friends in the UK and could speak only a little English.
The judge said: 'It is difficult to imagine a more serious injury, short of death.'
Husband Asgar Sheikh pictured at Leeds Crown Court
Brother-in-law Shakalayne Sheilkh has been handed a sentence of six months suspended for two years
Mother-in-law Shabnam Sheikh has been jailed for seven years and nine months
Sister-in-law Shagufa Sheikh has been handed a sentence of 18 months, suspended for two years
A cruel family who left an arranged marriage bride in a vegetative state by 'dousing her with chemicals' and 'force-feeding her pills' have been jailed.
Ambreen Fatima Sheikh was 30 when she was given the anti-diabetes drug glimepiride, which induced catastrophic brain injury, after she was brought to the UK from Pakistan following an arranged marriage.
She was also doused in a caustic substance, probably some kind of cleaning fluid, as she was abused in the house in the days leading up to her admission to hospital on August 1, 2015.
It was initially thought Ms Sheikh, now 39, would die - but when her ventilator was turned off in hospital, she began to breathe for herself.
The court heard that she has been left unaware of herself or her environment, without motor response or response to pain, and will never recover. Prosecutors said she only survives by being fed through a tube and will eventually die as a consequence of what happened to her, although this may not happen for many years.
Sentencing judge, Mrs Justice Lambert said she rarely left the house and never by herself. She had no independent income, no friends in the UK and could speak only a little English.
The judge said: 'It is difficult to imagine a more serious injury, short of death.'
Husband Asgar Sheikh pictured at Leeds Crown Court
Brother-in-law Shakalayne Sheilkh has been handed a sentence of six months suspended for two years
Mother-in-law Shabnam Sheikh has been jailed for seven years and nine months
Sister-in-law Shagufa Sheikh has been handed a sentence of 18 months, suspended for two years
