
According to the Telegraph, the NHS has been told to “stop discouraging cousin marriage”:
The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) told NHS staff “it is unacceptable to discourage close relative marriage in a blanket way” because parents are only at a “slightly increased” risk of having a child with a genetic disorder.
It said genetic counsellors should meet the couple and their relatives to advise them on how to “consider arranging future marriages outside of the family”.









Deng Chol Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver as she talked to her best friend on the phone, three months after Majek is believed to have illegally entered the UK on a small boat.



