hi guys I'm NZ if you haven't heard of
NZ sha yet you will soon she has one of
the most extraordinary life stories in
politics my mom was abused and killed a
person who K killed a person who abused
her we've experienced poverty
homelessness um I'm My Own abuse my own
forc marriage at the age of 15 so yes
lots have happened from this is who
labor selected a week ago to take on
George Galloway in Bradford West no big
deal at first but that was before she
decided to reveal all about her past and
here it is when I was six my dad left my
mom for the neighbor's daughter who was
only 16 years old at the age of 8 my mom
couldn't buy her own house so um a man
bought it for her at the age of 12 my
mom sent me to Pakistan to live there
because she felt that I was risk of
being at risk of being abused by the man
who' bought the house for us what sort
of abuse might you have suffered had you
stayed as a 12-year-old girl it it my
mom when she told her story she told me
that she feared that I would have been
exploited sexual abuse I would have been
at risk of being sexually abused by the
guy who was abusing her when I was 15 I
had a forced marriage which I was
emotionally blackmailed into in
Pakistan at 18 my Mom finally snapped
and killed the man who had been abusing
her so she'd sent me to Pakistan and I'd
got married I'd come back I was saved if
you like from his um potential abuse and
then my sister was 11 years old so my
sister was coming up to her age and I
think my mom had just had enough she'd
come to a stage where she just snapped
she didn't care whether he lived or died
by the time my mom actually gave him the
F fatal do of poison which killed the
guy she didn't care whether he lived or
died how conflicted are you about about
your mother about what she did and about
why she did it my feelings aren't
conflicted I've reconciled that over the
last 23 years I'm very very clear that
there were failures by the community
Elders by the family my own extended
family by the men in society by the
community in terms of their
interpretation and how their views are
on women in society their roles the role
of women I'm very clear about that what
I'm also clear about is that my
experiences have made me the person I
am incredibly NZ claims none of that's
why she's in politics
the reason she says is called George
Galloway I actually thought that he
would change bord politics and he didn't
so is he worried because I've never
heard of her never met her never heard
her speak and neither has anyone in the
Bradford West constituency we'll see
what kind of personality she's got what
she does have is a backstory that is
almost unbelievably tortured and uh pant
and I sympathize with her for that but
that's not a qualification for being
elected to Parliament people don't know
me I think once people know me and know
what I really am about um then yeah I
think I can win hearts and Minds would
bmps are often accused of having no life
before politics not this one Kieran
Jenkins Channel 4 News Bradford