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It is understood Sarah Gloag, who is Dame Ann’s stepdaughter and daughter-in-law, attended voluntarily at Livingston police station in West Lothian with Dame Ann’s son-in-law Paul McNeil.

Thought they were from Scotland, not Norfolk?

14 thoughts on “Eh?”

  1. The allegations are believed to relate to people who were brought to Scotland as part of Dame Ann’s charity work with the Gloag Foundation

    Send them back then.

  2. Btw thankfully they only threatened these ridiculous charges against an 81 year old woman for 10 months before dropping the prosecution due to it being complete fucking bollocks:

    Human trafficking charges against Stagecoach tycoon are dropped

    9 October 2024

    Scotland, eh?

  3. “ Sarah Gloag, who is Dame Ann’s stepdaughter and daughter-in-law”

    Gosh, it is correct; her son (by her first marriage) married her second husband’s daughter (from his first marriage). After the parents were married, so they were already step-brother and -sister. I didn’t realise that was possible. Interesting family.

    Sadly he came to an unfortunate end.

  4. RichardT

    Seems to be a bit of a Jocko thing. I know a couple of families where that happened and both from up those parts.

    Perfectly legal, because step-brothers & step-sisters are related in name only, I am told.

  5. @Ottokring

    I believe it’s more complicated than that as there is a clause about it not being allowed if the younger person had, before reaching age 18: lived in the same household as the older person, and/or been treated as a child of the older person’s family.

    I recall hearing about one couple where the boy was prosecuted for incest after their respective parents married and moved in together making them step siblings under 18 living in the same household. It made no difference that they were a couple before their parents met. The law is an ass.

  6. Probably an Internet fact but I have heard that Perthshire has the highest per capita RR ownership in UK.
    Due to the cash difference between a 4 bed des res in Londonistan and retirement bungalow in Aberfeldy.

  7. One of my great-great-uncles was in a legally incestuous marriage, but the woman he was married to was in a legal marriage. At that time – before 1905 – it was legal for a woman to marry her dead sister’s widow, but it wasn’t legal for a man to marry his dead wife’s sister. Weird!

  8. jgh – what were the provisions for marrying a dead brother’s widow? Asking for a friend and ‘the big guy.’

  9. The 1907 Act did exactly what it said and no more. It was amended by the Deceased Brother’s Widow’s Marriage Act 1921 to allow a widow to marry her deceased husband’s brother.[36][37] This was a response to First World War deaths to encourage remarriages, reducing war widows’ pensions and increasing the birth rate.[37].

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceased_Wife%27s_Sister%27s_Marriage_Act_1907#cite_note-22

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