A FATHER has been cleared of terrorising his daughter after she married against his will.

Manzoor Hussain, 50, was found not guilty, on the direction of Judge David Pirie at Burnley Crown Court, of putting daughter Kenuse Begum Hussain in fear of violence between February and April last year.

Hussain denied the allegation. Hussain, of Percival Street, Accrington, was bound over in the sum of £250 for 12 months, to keep the peace, in particular towards Mrs Hussain.

The jury had heard claims the defendant nearly knocked his daughter down in his car, threatened to kill her and held what she believed to be a knife against her when she was pregnant.

Mrs Hussain had earlier divorced after a marriage arranged by her father and then married the man of her choice. Her father wanted her to get married in Pakistan, the court was told.

The alleged victim's claims were dismissed by Hussain's barrister who claimed her husband had attacked the defendant and stolen from him and that was why she had complained to the police about her father.

Mrs Hussain, of Monk Street, Accrington, said it was not true the defendant was telling her what her husband had just done to him.

She denied her father had a facial injury and said Hussain was swearing because she had taken that road to go home and he said it was "his road".

She said she stood in shock as her father got out of the car and swore at her. She said she felt something sharp against her side and thought it could be a knife.

Asked by prosecutor John Chaplin why she thought her father had behaved in the way she alleged, Mrs Hussain said it was because she had married against his will.