Border agency staff broke up the wedding service at Manchester register office – claiming that the Portuguese bride and Pakistani groom could not even speak the same language.
The raid took place just minutes before the service was due to start at the Lloyd Street office. It is understood an interpreter was to be used during the ceremony because the couple could not speak each other’s native languages and only the groom spoke English.
Five witnesses were at the register office when police and border agency staff made the arrest. The 24-year-old bride, who wore a lilac dress and plastic tiara, is reported to have reacted indifferently as her groom was led away.
An agency source said: “She just shrugged her shoulders and didn’t really seem too bothered. “She didn’t speak English or Urdu. “He didn’t speak Portuguese but could speak English. How this courtship was supposed to have taken place is anybody’s guess.”
The 29-year-old man, who is understood to have an expired temporary visa, was being questioned and faces being deported. The couple both gave Manchester addresses
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