Leeds brewery Northern Monk release special beer to mark forbidden love of employee's parents

It was illegal for Edmond Peters’ parents to be together. If their relationship was discovered, they both would have lost their jobs.It meant difficult decisions after Edmond’s birth – and a childhood where he could not bond with his father and was brought up by his mother alone.
Laura Reid
By Laura Reid
Published 11th Jul 2023, 11:50 BST

Fifty years on, Edmond’s employers Northern Monk have released a beer to help him share the incredible story of his parents’ forbidden love.

Edmond was born in The Gambia in 1973. “My parents were in love, but they couldn’t be together,” he says.

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“It was illegal for a nurse and a doctor to have a relationship. It meant my mum brought me up alone, and my father never had a relationship with his son.