By Rebecca Seales PUBLISHED: 06:12 EST, 8 April 2012 | UPDATED: 06:46 EST, 8 April 2012 Trapped: Mrs Shah - who has adopted a pseudonym for her own protection - was forced into marriage at just five years old, despite living in an ordinary British town (picture posed by model) A successful businesswoman has told of her agony after being forced into an abusive marriage at the age of five - despite living in Britain. Samina Shah, who is now in her 40s and too frightened to reveal her real name, spoke out after revelations that Britain's Forced Marriage Unit had handled the case of another five-year-old girl last year.
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Victim tells how her childhood was shockingly ended by the ceremony she mistook for a birthday party
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Forced abroad to live with her husband in Pakistan, she suffered years of abuse before finally finding the strength to seek a divorce
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Now a successful entrepreneur, she wants to show girls in her position there is light at the end of the tunnel
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