A father faces jail for psychologically abusing his daughters in the first case of its kind.

Salamat Khan, 63, exerted such domineering control over his household that his children felt like they were “living in a prison”.

The father-of-nine had already married off three of his daughters to selected husbands, but “cast out” two of his daughters, when they married men that he did not “approve of”.

As a result, Khan claimed the sisters were “dead to the family” and tried to stop two other unmarried daughters leading a Westernised lifestyle.

At Manchester magistrates’ court he was found guilty of engaging in coercive behaviour towards two of his daughters, as well as his wife, between December 2015 and June 2018. He will be sentenced at Crown Court next month where he faces up to five years in prison.