Jasmin Osman was sent to a boarding school in Somaliland when she was 19

Police failed to investigate the families of the young British women sent to a school in Somalia where they were beaten and prepared for forced marriages, The Times can reveal.

Seven victims, aged between 17 and 22, were rescued in 2017 from a “correctional religious school”. They were chained to walls and whipped for forgetting verses of the Koran.

After being flown back to Britain, the young women were all interviewed by police. However, despite it being illegal to force someone to marry, or to use deception to take someone abroad for a forced marriage, officers decided that none of the allegations required the arrest of any family members.

One of the victims said yesterday that she felt she had been abandoned by officers, who