While Julia Wandelt, a troubled young woman, perhaps warrants some sympathy, the same cannot be said of many others who continued to perpetuate her fiction.
Despite a two-year age difference, the insistence of her own Polish family and even the cold, hard evidence of a DNA test - Julia Wandelt remained resolute.
Breaking her silence to the Mail on the bitter rift that has emerged this week between her family and the one her son is marrying into, Caroline said: 'He's in Gordon's clutches.'
The '£31,500 wine heist', as the latest theft has been dubbed, could have come from Hollywood scriptwriters - involving disguises, an adapted 'swag coat' and a high-speed car chase
Behind Holly Ramsay and Adam Peaty's nuptials lies a family drama which resulted in the groom's mother - and nearly every member of his family - excluded from the ceremony.
The home video was just a few seconds long; a girl in her bedroom. No name, no location, just a few words in English, but not enough to determine the child's nationality. Nothing identifying at all.
As a family-run business, Parlour Farm Kitchens proudly trumpeted its craftsmanship, quality and sustainability. But now the firm has gone bust, leaving behind debts of more than £2 million.
For a moment, as she sat in a courtroom in North Wales last week, Sarah Gunther had to fight the urge to leap from her seat, throw herself at the young man standing in the glass-panelled dock.
