70-year-old Saudi man divorced by his teen bride wants his dowry money back
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A 70-year-old Saudi Arabian man has been divorced from his teenage bride - thought to be only 15.The terrified youngster locked herself in a bedroom on their wedding night and two days later she fled back to her parents’ home.But the elderly man caused outrage when he claimed that the youngster's family had tricked him into paying a $20,000 (£12,479) dowry.According to local reports, the man said: 'I feel that there is a conspiracy by her mother against me.'He claimed he would go to court to retrieve the dowry from the young girl’s Saudi mother and Yemeni father and said the payment made the marriage ‘legal and correct’.
