Force the girl to test her virginity, father: I wanted to protect her.

Crying in the courtroom at Kingston Croa Court, he claimed he wanted to see if the girl was raped.

Ali Safaraei said this case had destroyed his family. According to 56-year-old, he tried to keep the teenager Sophia Safaraei away from any danger and bad friends and social media but failed.

According to the indictment, Ali and his wife, Mittra Eidian, 42, tried to search the 18-year-old and threatened to kill her boyfriend, Bailey Marshall-Telfer, after they discovered their relationship.

When he got home, Mitra told him he had found a boy in their house in Clapham, south-west London, but had left.

But Ali denied that he forced his daughter to test her virginity: I told him to do a check. I didn't mention the word virgin. The official mentioned it, not my words, he put it in my mouth, just mentioned the word control. My daughter told me that she had not touched her and that she could prove it but that she later changed her mind. ”