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Desperate plea
Family of cancer patient with days to live plead for expat daughter to be allowed to fly to Scotland to say goodbye
Updated: 23:26, 17 Jul 2021
HEALTH secretary Humza Yousaf has ordered a review into the case of an expat Scot who was refused exemption from self-isolation rules to see her terminally ill father.
Laura Soutar, 27, who works in Dubai, is quarantining in Majorca after the Scottish government refused to let her return home without following Government Covid rules.
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Her dad Iain Soutar, 64, is receiving palliative care after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The family fear Laura’s return could be too late to give her dad “a final hug”.
BBC News
By Connor Gillies
image copyrightSoutar family
image captionThe Soutar family have appealed for dad Iain to be quickly reunited with both of his daughters
The family of a cancer patient with days to live have pleaded that his expat daughter be allowed to fly home to Scotland immediately to say goodbye.
Iain Soutar, from Milngavie, is receiving palliative care after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
His Dubai-based daughter Laura is quarantining in Majorca after the Scottish government refused to exempt her from self-isolating in Scotland.
The family fear her return could be too late to give her dad a final hug .
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