The husband of a pregnant teenager found stabbed to death has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

The 24-year-old husband of Sana Ali, 17, was arrested by murder squad detectives along with 16-year-old youth.

Mrs Ali and her unborn child both died following the attack at her home in Bury, Greater Manchester, on Friday.

Sana came to the UK five years ago as an arranged bride. She was married six months ago, and had to drop out of her college classes because she became pregnant.

This is not a life. She was a prisoner of her culture, forced to marry and breed when she was no more than a child. She was a prisoner of her marriage: neighbors said they didn't even know there was a young woman living in the house. And now she's dead, her and her baby, stabbed to death in her own "home".

Neighbours said they were shocked by the murder. "They are a quiet family, we rarely saw them," one resident said. "They are Muslim and sometimes they wear traditional dress, but other times they wear Westernised clothing.

"They recently had a large garage converted into a prayer room, and every couple of weeks quite a number of people came to pray. But I never saw a young girl at the house.

"A policeman told me he had interviewed 29 residents in the street and not one had seen a teenage girl or knew one that had recently got married."

She was invisible - her life meant nothing to the people around her, including the one (or ones) who killed her.

Try to spare Sana a thought tonight. Better late than never.

Labels: Arranged Marriage, England, Europe, Honor Killiing, Islam, Sana Ali