Full interview: Forced marriage survivor speaks about her ordeal

A woman who was violently beaten by her father for fighting against a forced marriage has teamed up with Norfolk Police and a national charity to try to stop other girls going through the same experience.

Rashid was a week away from her 18th birthday when she was taken to Pakistan for what she thought was going to be a family holiday.

Instead she was told she was to marry her cousin. She had never seen him, met him, spoken to him, or even knew he existed, yet had been promised to him at the age of just 13.

Rashid - who describes herself as a survivor and not a victim - very quickly decided she could not let herself go through with it.

But her resolution did not go down well with her father.

Rashid's mother helped her to flee Pakistan but, with no way of supporting herself, she had to return to her family home and the abuse continued for another two years.

She eventually left home at the age of 20 and never returned.

Rashid now works as a laywer for one of the region's police forces.

Now she is joining forces with Norfolk Police and the Freedom Charity in the fight against forced marriages.

Today a new law was brought in finally making them illegal in the UK. Forcing a British man or woman to marry outside of this country, or forcing a person into a marriage in the UK, will carry a maximum sentence of seven years in jail.

According to Aneeta Prem, of the Freedom Charity, it is a move which will help people in this region as well as across the rest of the country.

In Norfolk alone, police have received 63 calls linked to forced marriage in the past four years.

But officers believe it is an under-reported crime and hope the change in law will encourage more people to come forward.

Click below to watch Malcolm Robertson's report.

Or watch the full, moving interview with Rashid here.