London: A husband has been barred from having sex with his wife because she has mental age of a child and doesn't know that she can refuse, as reported in the Daily Mail.
The unidentified Bangladeshi man, who lives in east London, is already in a relationship with the wife’s cousin, as Islamic culture allows polygamous marriage.
He has two children with her but still demands the right to have sex with his first wife.
As reported, the husband claimed that he has “the right under his Islamic culture to have sex with the mentally-disabled woman aged 39 whenever he pleases.”
With a mental age of four to eight, the wife has been taken into care under the Mental Health Act and all their four children have also been taken into care because she does not have the ability to care for them.
However, the husband, who has been married to her for 18 years, wanted her back home so he could have sex with his two wives on alternate days, said the judge.
On Thursday, a Family Division judge refused this in an anonymised judgment. The judge concluded that polygamous marriage was valid under Islamic law but invalid in the UK.
