Gloag's ill son flown to Scotland

Published on Thursday 4 June 2009 01:12

THE critically-ill adopted son of Stagecoach millionairess Ann Gloag has been airlifted from Kenya to Scotland after he was injured in a car crash.

Mrs Gloag flew to the African country to be with her adopted son Peter Gloag, 24, after the accident on 17 May.

She returned to the UK with him a few days ago. A family spokesman said: "Peter was transferred from Nairobi to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, where his condition remains critical."

Mrs Gloag found Peter sleeping amid rubbish in Kenya and adopted him when he was ten, bringing him to Scotland in 1995. He attended Morrisons Academy in Perthshire and then Dundee High School before going on to study at Napier University in Edinburgh.

Mrs Gloag is the co-founder of transport giant Stagecoach, which she set up with her brother Brian Souter in 1980, and is one of the richest women in Scotland. But her

life has often been touched by tragedy. In December 2007 her former husband, Robin Gloag, 64, died after a crash while their son Jonathan committed suicide in 1999.