Tycoon's son fights for life after car crash

Published on Thursday 21 May 2009 01:29

THE adopted son of Stagecoach millionaire Ann Gloag is in intensive care after a car crash in Africa.

The tycoon's spokesman said last night that she had flown to Kenya to be with her son Peter, 24.

Mrs Gloag found Peter sleeping amid rubbish in Kenya when he was ten. She adopted him and brought 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. She was awarded an OBE in 2004 for her services to charity. However, her life has often been touched by tragedy. In December 2007, her former husband Robin Gloag, 64, died after his car crashed into a field near his Perthshire home. Their son, Jonathan, committed suicide in 1999.

Mr Gloag helped set up Stagecoach before leaving the company and getting divorced from his wife. The firm went on to become one of Britain's biggest transport providers.