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Margaret visited the local hospital, West Middlesex in Hounslow, to see her mother who had just had a major operation, and finding that she was still partly suffering from the effects of the anaesthetics she decided to have a coffee and to wait an hour before going to see her again. While waiting she got into conversation with an attractive young man, who asked if he could join her for coffee and she found he was visiting his father who was recovering from pneumonia. They liked one another immediately and decided to meet again next day when visiting their respective parents and continued meeting every day until his father left hospital ten days later. He told her his name was Dave Bryant and that he lived at the opposite side of the catchment area of the hospital in Kew, while she lived in Hayes, and as they parted they made a date to go dancing together a few days later. Margaret’s mother returned home after another week and made steady improvement, so Margaret found she was free to meet Dave regularly, and as she felt she was now in love with him and he had declared his love for her, they started to have regular sex. A year later having told her mother how much in love she was and describing how wonderful Dave was, she brought Dave home to meet her mother, to tell her that they were going to get married, and the young couple were astounded at her reaction, which was almost a total collapse.
Margaret’s mother immediately recognised Dave as her own son, who looked exactly like his father from whom she had separated nineteen years before. At the time of parting the father had taken the son, Dave or David as he was known then, while she took Margaret.The father moved to live in Yorkshire with his son and they thought they would never meet again. Fate stepped in however as he was offered a very good job which entailed moving back to the west of London and which was too good to turn down, so he accepted and settled in an area where he thought he would be far enough away from his previous wife that they would never meet.
Margaret and Dave refused to separate, in spite of being brother and sister even though they were warned that any children would probably be born mentally defective. Dave’s father was now involved and the doctor was consulted to no avail, a psychiatrist failed to get them to change their minds, social services also failed and eventually the police were called in to give an ultimatum. Next day the young couple just disappeared and were not seen again by any of the people involved.