{"id":143263,"date":"2018-06-19T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/abusive-birmingham-husband-beat-wife-and-locked-her-indoors\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:00:59","slug":"abusive-birmingham-husband-beat-wife-and-locked-her-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/abusive-birmingham-husband-beat-wife-and-locked-her-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Abusive Birmingham husband &#8216;beat wife and locked her indoors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06bj9rh.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionViolent husband kept wife virtual prisoner for 16 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A husband who regularly beat his wife and kept her locked indoors during their 16-year marriage has been jailed.<\/p>\n<p>Aziz Rehman, 47, would only allow partner Zeenit Bibi to leave their home in Collingbourne Avenue, Hodge Hill, Birmingham when on the school run.<\/p>\n<p>He would wedge twigs in the front door whenever he went out so he could tell if she had left the house.<\/p>\n<p>Rehman was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday to three years and nine months in prison.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midlands Live: Mum &#039;appealed to PM&#039; on cannabis; &#039;Wall collapse&#039; death investigated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A jury found him guilty in May of assault and coercive control. <\/p>\n<p>Mrs Bibi, 36, who married Rehman in December 2000, told the BBC she wanted other victims to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#039;t think anybody was going to believe me, which was one of the reasons that I left it so long, because in the outside world he made it look like we were the perfect family,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nobody deserves this kind of life - talk about it, let somebody know.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  West Midlands Police<figcaption>Image caption                                      Aziz Rehman hit his wife on the head with a dumbbell                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rehman, who denied the charges, ran their home like a &quot;prison&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>One regular visitor told police how the curtains were always drawn and described Rehman as an &quot;oppressor&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman, who owns Arden Superstore and off licence in Arden Road, Saltley, hit his wife on the head with a dumbbell during one attack.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Bibi alerted West Midlands Police in July 2016 while her husband was out of the country and he was arrested following his return to the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionViolent husband kept wife virtual prisoner for 16 years A husband who regularly beat his wife and kept her locked indoors during their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}