year-old divorcee and her 23-year-old eldest daughter are living in a state of fear because the former claims that she has been receiving death threats from five people. The woman, known only as MQ, has claimed that she has been told by her neighbors that her ex-husband has offered SR10,000 to have her and their eldest daughter killed. This is because she had complained about him to the police over visitation rights to her children. Her two children living with her ex-husband, an 18-year-old son and 20-year-old daughter, have also threatened her because they have taken the side of their father, she claims. MQ also claims that she is being threatened by her eldest daughter's husband and his son because of a dispute over her daughter's inheritance. She claimed that her daughter's husband has stolen SR71,000 from her inheritance. MQ said she was married to her husband when she was 13-years-old and gave birth to their three children. They divorced after eight years of marriage. She alleged that her husband had prevented her from seeing her children for more than 15 years by moving to Taif. She said she eventually discovered that her eldest daughter was at university and started visiting her. When her husband learnt about these visits, he stopped all their children from going to school so that they could not see her, she claimed. As a result, MQ said that she then decided to visit her children at her ex-husband's home, but he did not want this and threatened to kill her. “Despite his threats, I traveled all the way from Makkah where I live, to visit my children at their father's house in Taif. But he threw me out at knifepoint. I then turned to the police who protected me until I left Taif. This left me with no option but to file a lawsuit against him at the court which issued a verdict allowing me to see my children once a month under the protection of the police,” she said. MQ also claimed that her ex-husband married off their two daughters without her knowledge. She said the husband of their eldest daughter allowed her to see her. However, he died of cancer. Her eldest daughter, who had two children, then married her late husband's brother. MQ said she found herself at “square one” because she discovered that the new husband was only after her daughter's inheritance. She claimed that he started placing pressure on her daughter to give him a general proxy to look after her inheritance. He allegedly exploited the proxy and transferred SR71,000 from her share to his account and left her to live with her father. MQ claimed her ex-husband “tortured” their eldest daughter and her two sons. MQ said she asked her daughter's husband to come to speak to her about the inheritance money, but instead he took his two sons and fled. MQ claims that this was when she started receiving threatening messages from her daughter's husband and son. MQ then reported them to the police in Al-Sharayea and lodged a lawsuit against him with the Shariah Court, asking for a divorce from her daughter. Maj. Abdulmohsen Al-Maiman, spokesman of the Makkah Police, said the police had received the case file with the mother's evidence. He said the police are investigating the case.
