The court heard that Ingram, of Sheerness, Kent, signed his marriage certificate with his stepdaughter as “Neil Carr”
After changing his identity via a deed poll so he could remarry at age 32. When his wife signed the same marriage papers as a witness, she too used the same last name.
He confessed during a police interrogation and said that money had been the driving force behind the unlawful marriage.
When Ingram initially appeared before Medway Magistrates’ Court in May of last year, he entered a guilty plea to bigamy.
However, the case was moved to the crown court for sentence because of the nature of the offense, which carries a possible punishment of up to seven years in jail.
Prosecutor Jeremy Kingsford said at the hearing last Monday that Ingram had wed his wife in January 1983 and then married his stepdaughter in violation of the law five years later.
