Actress Zara Phythian faces 8 years in prison for child sex abuse

Zara Phythian, known for her role in the 2016 Marvel film "Doctor Strange", has been sentenced to eight years in jail for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, reported BBC News. Her husband Victor Marke was also found guilty of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl and has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.

BBC News quoted the judge Mark Watson as telling Phythian during the judgement, "Whilst you denied in cross-examination that you were besotted with Victor Marke, on the evidence I have heard I am in no doubt that your deviance was shaped by the influence that he had upon you from an early age." The judge also said that Marke was the "driving force behind the abuse".

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Zara Phythian and her husband Victor Marke had 14 allegations of sexual activity with the then minor, from 2005 to 2008.