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Rebecca Musser, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, testified about the sect's views on marriage in the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop.

Jessop, a member of the polygamous sect, is charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.

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Non-Muslim inmates at the high-security Long Lartin jail have been forced by the gangs to stop playing "Western" music and take down pictures of women from their cells, according to one former prison officer there.

The officer, speaking to Radio Five Live's Donal Macintyre show, told how younger prisoners were targeted for forced conversion to Islam by the gangs.

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