Bride 'delivery service' for sham marriage ring exposed when couple 'had to use iPhone app to converse because they spoke different languages'

A 'delivery service' for foreign brides was exposed after registrars became suspicious because a couple used an iPhone app to talk to each other during their wedding ceremony, a court has heard.

One bride allegedly booked a flight to Prague within hours of tying the knot while a second couple went to KFC to celebrate their union, the jury at Manchester Crown Court was told.

Prosecutors say ten women were shipped into Britain on cross-channel ferries between September 2012 and June last year before marrying Asian students who had 'questionable' immigration status.

Hamid Mushtaq, 24 (left), and Blanka Farkasova, 35 (right), are among the couples accused of arranging sham marriages in which some partners did not even speak the same language

Hamid Mushtaq, 24, and Pavlina Kratka, 28, deny conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration, as do Waqas Hussein, 25, and Blanka Farkasova, 35.

Klement Buncik, 43, who was allegedly central to the ‘trade in women’, bringing brides

'So many mistakes': Reeva Steenkamp’s parents tell of fury at judge as legal experts criticise her decision to acquit Oscar Pistorius of murder

The parents of the woman shot dead by Oscar Pistorius today spoke of their fury that the athlete wasn't convicted of her murder.
June and Barry Steenkamp blasted the judge for making 'so many mistakes' when she acquitted the Paralympian of deliberately killing their daughter Reeva.

In reaching her decision, Judge Thokozile Masipa said there wasn't enough evidence to disprove the athlete's account that he accidentally shot the model through a locked toilet door after mistaking her for an intruder.

June and Barry Steenkamp condemned the judge for making 'so many mistakes' throughout the trial which resulted Pistorius being found guilty of culpable homicide for the shooting of their daughter