http://www.channel4.com/programmes/d...es/4od#3116215

Dispatches reveals the tragic consequences of first cousin marriage in Britain. Every year such marriages cause hundreds of children to be born with terrible disabilities; one third of whom are so ill that they die before they are five years old.

The practice is most common in Britain's Pakistani community, in which more than 50% of people marry their first cousin, and in Bradford 75% of ethnic Pakistanis follow the tradition.

A foul stone age practice which should be outlawed in the UK - it is rampant and costing us (the taxpayer) millions of £'s