Midsomer Murders (spoiler if you havnt seen it yet!!)

mata hati | 08:16 Thu 31st Mar 2011 | TV

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Anyone watch Midsomer last night?
At the end, Barnaby told the young couple who wanted to get married - "go ahead, you are not closely related". How can that be then if their mothers were sisters and mans father was a brother ?? What exactly is their relationship then?

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starone

I think that might be cousins, but I suppose it depends on what you consider to be closely related. I think that is close enough to worry about but not illegal. Any children would be twice as likely to inherit defects, but apart from that I suppose it is all right.

starone

Sorry - rethink. Does that mean the brother and sister have inadvertently got married and produced offspring - that would be a bit different I think, but cannot work out what relationship that would be.

hc4361

It was confusing.

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Francis Asis

She was Neil Pearson's daugher. His wife was her step mother. No relation at all.

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The Bingham’s daughter Maggie Viviani had a son, Ben. Their other daughter Selina Stanton had a daughter Verity. These two were thus first cousins and were the couple who wished to marry.

Whilst I would disagree with the new DCI Barnaby’s contention that the two were not “closely related” first-cousin marriage is not illegal in the UK. About 1% of marriages overall are cousin marriages, but this rises to more than 50% amongst some of the UK’s Asian population, most notably those of Pakistani origin where I believe the incidence is about 60%.

Francis Asis

Verity was Selina's STEP daughter.

New Judge

Actually, Francis, I think you're correct and I'm completely wrong. (I knew I should not have had that last glass of Shiraz!).

Of course, had I been compos mentis I should have realised that the daughter and her step-mother were not too fond of each other and that's sometimes (though not always) a clue!

Apologies.