A FATHER threatened to kill his daughter and tried to run her over in his car after she refused to marry the man he wanted, a court has heard.

Manzoor Hussain,50, almost mowed down Kenuse Begum Hussain in his car, repeatedly threatened to kill her and held what she believed was a knife against her when she was pregnant, a jury was told.

She had earlier gone through an arranged marriage to her cousin in Pakistan, returned to England with her father after two weeks and then divorced, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Hussain wanted her to get married again in Pakistan, but she married a man of her choice instead.

Mrs Hussain's allegations were dismissed as lies and exaggeration by her father's barrister, Charles Brown, who claimed her husband had attacked the defendant.

Hussain, of Percival Street, Accrington, denies putting his daughter in fear of violence, between February and April, last year.

Mrs Hussain, giving evidence through an interpreter, said her father had followed and sworn at her in Accrington town centre and used the word "indecent."

She told the jury she had been on her way home from work when she saw her father in his car. He was swearing and got hold of her.

Under cross-examination, Mrs Hussain said it was not true the defendant was telling her what her husband had just done to him.

She denied her father had a facial injury and said Hussain was swearing because she had taken that road to go home and he said it was "his road".

She said she stood in shock as her father got out of the car and swore at her. She said she felt something sharp against her side and thought it could be a knife.

Mrs Hussain said she believed that because Hussain had threatened on numerous occasions he would kill her one day.

Mr Brown alleged the complainant's husband had also taken property from the defendant as well as assaulting him.

Mrs Hussain said it was not true. She agreed her husband was later arrested and their home in Monk Street, Accrington, searched, but no police action was taken.

The complainant said it was true there was a dispute between herself and her husband about the retention of some passports which her father had handed to the police.

Mrs Hussain said she had not reported her father's alleged actions to police until April because by that time he had "gone over his limits," in harassing her.

Asked by prosecutor John Chaplin why she thought her father had behaved in the way she alleged, Mrs Hussain said it was because she had married against his will.

She said her father had wanted her to get married in Pakistan but she had not wanted to.

(Proceeding)