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Daily Mail
January 12, 2014
A conwoman who posed as a ‘simple and sincere’ potential bride in order to trick men out of money on an Asian marriage website has escaped jail.
Sidra Fatima, 33, carried on her cruel charade for nearly two years, and in that time managed to pull the wool over the eyes of seven men, getting them to part with over £35,000.
But the mother-of-two from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire today avoided jail, being given a 12-month suspended sentence despite the judge saying her suitors ‘had to put up with humiliation, debt and misery’.
Fatima said she was divorced and looking for a husband ‘who knows the meaning of love’ on dating website Shaadi.com.
But she was already married, setting up the scam with her husband Raja Haider Ali, 45.
Once they found a victim Fatima would arrange to meet him and occasionally meet their families.
Ali would often chaperone Fatima while pretending to be her cousin or brother.
John Harrison, prosecuting, today told Bradford Crown Court that Fatima even had two profiles on the website to enable the defendants to catch more hopeful men in their trap’.
At the top of one of her pages Fatima described herself as ‘simple and sincere’.
Mr Harrison said: ‘The various suitors were not told that Fatima and Ali were married. Following the initial meeting, Fatima would agree to marriage.
‘She would then insist that the complainant hand over money to pay for the wedding and also to purchase items to for the wedding to give to her in the form of a dowry.
‘After purchases had been made and money handed over, Fatima would terminate the relationship, either by telling the complainant that she no longer wished to pursue the relationship of by simply not returning his phone calls.
‘The defendants made significant sums from this fraudulent activity.’
On one occasion, when a suitor asked for his money back, Ali threatened him, telling him he had murdered 20 people in Pakistan and showing him a picture of an AK-47 machine gun on his phone.
Some of the young men they targeted were left ‘burdened by debt’ as a result of the scam.
Reading from one victim impact statement Mr Harrison said: ‘[The victim] is still traumatised and embarrassed and has lost the faith and confidence in himself.’
Reading from another, he said: ‘She [Fatima] convinced him that she was a good person. He was convinced she was telling the truth and spent all his savings on her.’
