Naseebah Bibi, who beat her victims and treated them "like dogs", was said by a judge at Preston crown court to have psychologically and physically traumatised the women, condemning them to live in fear.
She used her house in Blackburn, Lancashire, as a prison and factory, forcing her oldest son Fahim's wife to make clothes for 13 years and keeping the money from their sale. Nagina Akhtar was given little more than a month off for the births of each of her three children, and was beaten into doing cleaning and cooking chores when the clothing business collapsed.
Bibi was convicted earlier this year of falsely imprisoning Nagina between 1993 and 2006, Tazeem Akhtar from 2001 to 2003 and Nisbah Akhtar between 2005 and 2007. The women had come to Britain after arranged marriages to three of Bibi's six children, who are their cousins.
None of them spoke English, and Bibi's trial in April heard that they had seldom been allowed to leave the house. The brutality came to light after Nagina's three-year-old son told staff at his nursery that his grandmother had caused the severe bruising they had noticed on his mother's hands.
The judge said he had taken account of cultural differences and accepted that Bibi followed her own parents' views on arranged marriages. But he said: "That can be no excuse for the degree of cruelty and imprisonment to which the victims were subjected."
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