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Ahla Arbid, 33, wanted to marry Hossain Ansari-Pour. But Ansari-Pour told a crown court last week, “Even on the first day that I met Ahla, I did tell her that my parents were looking for a wife for me.”
The parents picked out Sara Aryan-Pour. Hossain married her and arranged for her flight to London.
The court was told the spurned Miss Arbid then called the British Airports Authority and reported that the new wife was carrying “an explosive substance” on the flight. No explosive was found and the police then came to question Arbid. She said she thought she had heard the explosives report in an overheard conversation.
Arbid, a divorced mother of two, met Ansari-pour, who once worked for the BBC Persian service, on an Islamic dating website and had agreed to a temporary marriage, the court was told. Ansari-pour said he sought the temporary marriage to fill the interlude before his parents found him a wife.
Her trial continues on a charge of communicating false information intentionally.
