The Mirror reports. “We fell in love,” said Brenda. “One night he took me for a drink and we ended up kissing.”But the romance didn't receive everyone's blessing - least of all the police.In 1997, the loved-up couple headed to Warrington registry office in their home town to tie the knot, however Clive was arrested on the basis that there was a "lawful impediment to their marriage".Clive was warned that marrying his mother-in-law could land him in jail for up to seven years.Because Brenda’s first husband Richard had passed away and Irene had gone on to remarry, the couple had wrongly assumed they would be free to get married.Instead, they settled to Brenda taking Clive's surname by deed poll.But this wasn’t good enough for the smitten.
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