Girl forced to wed man

PHONE footage showing the wedding ceremony of a 34year-old man and an underage girl has been shown in a Melbourne court as a Muslim cleric fights claims he solemnised the union.

Ibrahim Omerdic, 61, who was an imam of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque, says it was not his intention to solemnise the marriage, which was not formalised under Australian law.

Police seized footage from the husband’s phone, in which Omerdic can be heard telling the girl it was her duty to obey her husband.