The owner of a property company has been jailed for 18 months for engaging in coercive or controlling behaviour after failing to grant his wife a Jewish religious divorce. Alan Moher, 57, from Salford, and Caroline Moher, who have three children together, separated in 2016 and divorced in the Family Court.
But Moher did not give her a 'Get' - a document that formally recognises the end of a marriage in the orthodox Jewish faith, meaning she was unable to remarry, have more children or enter into a relationship with another man.
Ms Moher brought a private prosecution for a charge of controlling or coercive behaviour between January 2016 and January last year in what was described as 'a landmark case' by her lawyers. Moher pleaded guilty - and was told by a judge who jailed him on Friday that he 'sought to manipulate and control her'.
