A British woman, married to the son of Al Qaeda [Images] leader Osama bin Laden, is filing for divorce as she is worried about the safety of her husband who has received death threats, a media report said Wednesday.

Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother and parish councillor from Cheshire, said she has asked Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, for divorce, adding that they hoped to remarry next spring, the report said.

Felix-Browne, who uses the Islamic name Zaina Mohamad, claimed that they married in an Islamic ceremony in April after she met bin Laden's son in Egypt in September last year.

"There are people who objected to him marrying a British woman," she told The Times. "We had to get divorced because he had threats to kill him if he did not leave me. I told Omar that I wanted a divorce.

"Omar is devastated that it has happened but it had got to the point where I could not let him risk his life and liberty. Omar has said we will be back together. The people who have forced us to get divorced will have to stand before Allah and explain what they have done."

Felix-Browne, who has been married five times previously, said that her son Dean, 27, had delivered a letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday explaining the background for their divorce and asking for his permission to remarry.

She said that two factions within Saudi Arabia had been threatening her husband, the fourth son of the head of the al-Qaeda terror network, and had harmed his scrap metal business.