A Nigerian schoolgirl will tell the British House of Lords on Tuesday of her terrifying ordeal during one of the biggest ever mass abductions carried out by the Boko Haram terrorist sect.

Victoria Yohanna, 15, was one of more than 400 people taken prisoner during an attack by a Boko Haram raiding party on the north-east Nigerian town of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad in January.

Their captors ordered them to convert to Islam on pain of death and tried to marry them off as bush-wives to Boko Haram fighters.

Victoria, who managed to escape, will describe her experiences to an audience at the House of Lords at an event to mark the launch of a major new report on the persecution of Christians worldwide. It has been compiled by the charity Aid to the Church in Need.

It is believed to be the first time that one of Boko Haram’s thousands of schoolgirl victims has travelled to Britain to give evidence about their ordeal. The group’s use of women as chattels and sex-slaves gained worldwide attention last year when it kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the north-east Nigerian town of Chibok, most of whom are still missing.

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