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£1000 for a fake bride: the Scot arranging weddings for African gangsters

A grasping Mrs Fixit is working with African gangsters in a shocking fake marriage scam. Callous Janet Cathie works with the criminals to exploit immigrants desperate for passports and bribes or intimidates drug addicts.

A Record investigation has revealed Cathie has been behind at least eight sham weddings, pocketing more than £1000 a time.

She recruited most of her bogus brides from a deprived Scots housing estate after meeting them through their shared dependency on the heroin substitute methadone.

The penniless former heroin addicts were promised easy cash or threatened and bullied into marrying Ghanaian strangers they had never met.

And the wicked wedding planner married herself off at least once to an African seeking a UK passport, in 2006.

She followed that up by persuading her own daughter - a new mum - to walk down the aisle with an African stranger.

And crooked Cathie, who has gone by several different names in her life, topped the lot by being a witness at the wedding of her own live-in lover.

The extent of Cathie's fake weddings scam was uncovered by the Record after we were tipped off by staff at register offices.

Full story at the Daily Record.