• Phone threats to burn his family out of their home
• Racist stickers placed over his office
• A rock through the window of his home.

His attackers were found to be carrying literature containing his name and address with the caption "Dead enemies are the best propaganda", and describing Jewish students as "hooked- nosed vermin".

"We won't be able to walk down the street holding hands and kissing," I told him. "That can never happen. And if anybody finds out, the ultimate price we'll have to pay is our lives."

Jack and Zena, two people living in a Yorkshire town, both from a working-class background, met and fell in love. Nothing wrong with that; except that Zena came from a Pakistani family, strict Muslims, in which a woman was expected to marry the man chosen for her.

Zena chose instead to go with the man she loved. Although she was aware that this was going to upset her family, neither she nor Jack knew exactly what they were bringing down on their heads.

Within hours, they learned that Zena's family had not only hired a private detective but also a bounty hunter to track them down: with one aim - to kill them both. This was no idle threat; a relative of Zena's had been attacked with a hatchet for a relationship his family had disapproved of. Jack's mother - already ill - was assaulted and threatened, her house smashed up.

This is a true story about two young people who have committed no crime other than to fall in love. It is a story that tells us very clearly that there is no such thing as a multicultural society; at least, not until words such as "assimilation" and "respect" have real meaning in people's day-to-day existence. Until then, Jack and Zena live in hiding, in fear of their lives, with only their love to hold them together.