January 26, 2004

• Too well-dressed to be abused
  From a correspondent in Madrid
  January 23, 2004
  
  

  A MOROCCAN man has been released after a Spanish court ruled his wife was too well-dressed during the trial to be a victim of domestic violence.
  
  Barcelona judge Francisco Collado said Latifa Daghdagh's "physical appearance during the three-day hearing, not only made up, but also dressed differently each day, with rings, fancy bracelets and earrings and large glasses ... does not coincide with the image of a woman who has suffered months of aggression."

  
  

  Daghdagh, 22, claimed she was beaten by her husband for six months before she finally fled, pregnant, to a women's shelter in Madrid.

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