The raid came after a series of articles by the Record exposed the huge fake bride racket in Scotland.
Cathie setup at least eight fake weddings. It includes her own, her live-in boyfriend's and her daughter's. She is suspected of having a hand in many more now not known.
She operated at tough Tarfside Oval estate in Pollok, Glasgow, rounding up skint single mums and drug addicts she could bully into signing up for fake ceremonies.
She charged £1000 from her clients for arranging the marriages. She also took a double fee by appearing as a witness at several ceremonies in registry offices in Glasgow and Paisley.
Some of the ill-fated women who were lured by promises of money received nothing. Cathie even paid her own daughter Amanda McCourt, only half of the promised £2000 wedding fee.
Cathie was a close associate of Lamin Manneh. He was an African who was jailed for two years at Paisley Sheriff Court earlier this year for operating a parallel scam.
Source: Glasgow Daily Record, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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