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Twins marry each other
Sophie Goodchild and Amy Iggulden11.01.08
The British couple have now been granted an annulment after a special High Court hearing. Judges ruled the marriage had never validly existed.
Full details of how the brother and sister fell in love and married have been kept secret, along with their identities. But the Evening Standard has learned that they were separated soon after birth.
Each was then adopted by different families but neither was told they had a twin. The couple had no idea they were blood relatives until after their wedding.
The case was heard recently in the High Court's Family Division. Experts warn that it highlights the need for the rights of children to know the identity of their parents to be strengthened.
Professor Lord Alton, who uncovered the case, said new reforms drawn up by ministers threatened to undermine existing rights. The changes, now being debated in the House of Lords, would also relax rules on who can have fertility treatment.
Critics say they will weaken further the link between children and their biological parents - and even effectively end the need for fathers.
Lord Alton said: "The right for children to know the identity of their biological parents is a human right. There will be more cases like this if children are not given access to the truth. The needs of the child must always be paramount."
The Government has been facing fierce opposition over sweeping changes to fertility laws in the Human Embryology and Tissues Bill. Under the proposed law, fertility clinics will not be able to bar single women and same sex couples from treatment. Instead, doctors must ensure that patients can offer "supportive parenting".
Ministers have already been forced to rewrite the Bill following objections by peers to the original wording. It had stated that children born through fertility treatment needed a "social network", not a father and mother.
The Lords will vote on the revised bill on Tuesday.
Those pushing for the role of fathers to be recognised as vital include Baroness Ruth Deech, a former head of the Government's fertility watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
However fertility treatment pioneer Lord Winston said that the call for a such a "father clause" would discriminate against career women.
He said: "This is prejudiced against women who have paid their taxes, been well educated and delayed motherhood because they are working hard. If they are left without a partner and still want a baby [with a donor], this would prejudice their treatment and ask doctors to make a value judgment about them."
Lawyer Natalie Gamble, an expert on fertility regulations, said: "Equality rules mean clinics have to give treatment to single women and same sex couples anyway. The Government doesn't need to enshrine this in new laws."
Annulments are usually heard at county court, but can go to the High Court if cases are particularly complex. Marriages can be annulled if one of the parties was under 16 at the time of the wedding, if it was a bigamous union, or if the couple are closely related.
The latest figures, for 2005, show 251 marriages were annulled that year. There is no breakdown of how many cases fell into each category.
The siblings had no idea they were related.
The harrowing story of twins who were separated at birth and married each other without realising they were brother and sister was revealed today.
When the unnamed couple realised the shocking truth about their relationship, they had their marriage annulled at a secret High Court hearing. A judge ruled the union was legally invalid.
The couple's plight was revealed by the former Liberal Democrat MP Lord Alton, who is fighting for children to have greater rights to know the identity of their biological parents.
The peer, who raised the twins' story during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, said: "I learned of this heartbreaking story from the High Court judge who dealt with the case.
"We were having a casual conversation about the potential problems for donor- conceived children accidentally marrying each other and he said this could also happen in naturallyconceived children."
The judge told Lord Alton that the twins had been parted at birth and adopted.
Neither knew they had a twin and when they met as adults they did not realise they were related but felt "an inevitable attraction".
The discovery mirrors a storyline in teen soap Hollyoaks where a brother and sister slept with each other without knowing they were related
It was only after they married, according to Lord Alton, that they became aware of the "appalling" truth and sought to have their union dissolved. Marriages can be annulled in cases where there is a "prohibited degree of consanguinity" - blood relationship.
The case came before a judge, sitting in private, in the High Court Family Division where, according to Lord Alton, "he had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation".
No other details about the couple, their relationship, or the annulment have been made public but the peer added: "It was appalling for this couple to discover they were married to a close relative.
"And I believe the Government will leave itself open to class actions in the future if it collaborates in keeping information of this kind from children who have been donor-conceived."
Lord Alton and his supporters want the genetic history of a child recorded on its birth certificate.
The matter will be debated next week at the next reading of the controversial bill.
He said: "One of its provisions is to deny the child's right to know about its biological identity.
"This means the state is colluding in a deception. The Government has drawn up legislation that will deny you this knowledge until you are 18. But you could be married by then, or have fallen in love with someone.
"This will lead to these heartbreaking situations.
"If you start trying to conceal someone's identity, sooner or later the truth will out.
"And if you don't know you are biologically related to someone, you may become attracted to them and tragedies like this may occur."
Audrey Sandbank, a family therapist and author of Twins and Triplet Psychology, said the twins are likely to have felt "like soulmates" when they met for the first time because of their shared genes.
"This is a terrible trauma for them. They lost each other as babies and now they have lost each other again. They have been bereaved twice."
Pam Hodgkins, chief executive of the charity Adults Affected by Adoption, said there had been previous cases of separated siblings being attracted to each other.
"We have a resistance, a very strong incest taboo where we are aware that someone is a biological relative. But when we are unaware of that relationship, we are naturally drawn to people who are quite similar to ourselves.
"And of course there is unlikely to be anyone more similar to any individual than their sibling."
Mo O'Reilly, director of child placement for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, said such an incident was traumatic but very rare.
"Thirty or 40 years ago, it would have been more likely that twins be separated and brought up without knowledge of each other."
But she claimed that there was far more openness today with adopted children about their birth parents and background.
Last year, a German brother and sister who were separated as children and fell in love after being reunited campaigned for the right to continue their relationship. Patrick Stubing was jailed for two years for incest after he had four children with Susan, who by then he knew to be his sister.
The 29-year-old locksmith was given up for adoption as a baby and did not meet his real mother or sister until he was 18.
The couple, who live near Leipzig, claim they fell for each other when their mother died and are fighting to have the laws regarding incest changed.