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Article: You're not intelligent enough to marry, bride told.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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Byline: Gavin Madeley and Alison Smith-Squire
SOCIAL workers banned a young woman from her own wedding in an extraordinary row over whether she is bright enough to get married.
Kerry Robertson, who has mild learning difficulties, was told her wedding was being halted only 48 hours before she was to walk up the aisle with fiance Mark McDougall.
Miss Robertson, 17, had bought her wedding dress and the couple had booked the church ceremony, bought the rings and organised a reception to be held last Saturday.
But two days before they were due to say their vows in front of 20 guests, social services told the bride-to-be that she would have ...