Saba Jabeen, 36, has not seen her son and two daughters since 2017

Hundreds of women brought from Pakistan to Britain to provide men with families risk never seeing their children again after being sent home and abandoned, The Sunday Times reveals today.

The brides come to the UK in arranged marriages and raise children before their husbands or in-laws tire of them or decide they are no longer of use. The men often trick the women into returning to Pakistan for a holiday or to see a sick relative. They are then abruptly divorced and discarded like “used commodities” thousands of miles from their children, who grow up being told their mother is dead, mentally ill or chose to desert them.

The Home Office routinely blocks mothers who try to re-enter the country. Most came to the