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<h6 class="article__headline-section"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>British dad reported missing by his partner was found days later in Utah with a new wife</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline-section"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Decorator Malcolm McGregor, 38, from Motherwell, said he was visiting a relative 34 miles away &#8211; but police later discovered he had traveled over 4,500 miles to Utah</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline-section"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Childhood sweetheart Cheryl Cowie, 37, reported him missing when he failed to return from visiting a relative 34 miles away, on July 20</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline-section"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Days later photographs of his wedding to Utah woman to marry Bell Valek, 35, appeared online</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="article__headline-section"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">McGregor and Cheryl Cowie, who share two children, had been together for 20 years, after meeting as teenager</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">s</span></h6>
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<h6 class="article__content article__content--intro"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297809" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Malcolm-McGregor-and-Bell-Valek-1.jpg" alt="Malcolm McGregor and Bell Valek 1.jpg" width="960" height="960" />Malcolm McGregor was found when images of his marriage to Bell Valek in Utah were posted online</strong></h6>
<p class="article__content article__content--intro">A British man reported missing by his partner of 27 years turned up days later, married to another woman in Utah.<br />
Decorator Malcolm McGregor, 38, told childhood sweetheart Cheryl Cowie he was visiting a relative 34 miles away. Instead he flew 4,568 miles to marry Bell Valek, 35.<br />
Malcolm McGregor&#8217;s long-term partner Cheryl Cowie, 37, reported him missing when he failed to return from a short trip.<br />
The family called filed a missing person&#8217;s report after he vanished from the home he shared with Cowie in Motherwell, Scotland.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297810" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Sheryl-Cowie-1.jpg" alt="Sheryl Cowie 1.jpg" width="720" height="720" />Cheryl Cowie [photo], McGregor&#8217;s long-term partner had filed a missing person&#8217;s report after he failed to return from a short trip, <span style="font-size: 10.72px;">ostensibly</span> a mere 34 miles away, to visit a relative</h6>
<p>McGregor&#8217;s new hideout was discovered when he posed in wedding snaps posted online a few days after cops were alerted to his disappearance.<br />
Friends said Cheryl was clearly in anguish after seeing the marriage PDAs showing her partner with his new wife who had taken his surname.<br />
A friend of Cowie&#8217;s said: “To say his family are devastated is an understatement.<br />
“They just don’t know what’s got into him.”<br />
McGregor, who has two kids with Cheryl, said he was going to Kilmarnock on July 20 but failed to return home to Motherwell.</p>
<h6 class="rail__item-content"><img class="alignnone wp-image-297817" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Malcolm-McGregor-and-Cheryl-Cowie-4.png" alt="Malcolm McGregor and Cheryl Cowie 4.png" width="708" height="659" /><strong>Malcolm and Cheryl had been together for 20 years, since they met as teenagers</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297812" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Malcolm-McGregor-and-Bell-Valek-2.jpg" alt="Malcolm McGregor and Bell Valek 2" width="862" height="849" /></strong><strong>Malcolm and Bell reportedly met on Facebook a couple of years ago, but tied the knot just days after his arrival in the US in July</strong></h6>
<p>Police established the supposedly missing man had traveled “overseas” and was “safe and well”<br />
Still “Cheryl couldn’t get hold of him anywhere,” source close to the pair said.<br />
“His car was supposedly dumped near his sister’s home and police were looking everywhere.<br />
“Then they came to tell her that Malcolm had been in touch saying he was safe, so they could do no more.”<br />
It is believed McGregor got to know Bell using his private Facebook account and may have been in touch with her for “as long as two years”.</p>
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<h6 class="rail__item-content"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297813" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Malcolm-McGregor-and-Bell-Valek-3.jpg" alt="Malcolm McGregor and Bell Valek 3" width="721" height="723" />After seeing photos of Malcolm and his new bride, Valek Bell together on social media, a family friend said his previous partner and kids were &#8216;devastated&#8217;</strong></h6>
<h6 class="rail__item-content"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-297818" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Malcolm-McGregor-and-Cheryl-Cowie-5.jpg" alt="Malcolm McGregor and Cheryl Cowie 5.JPG" width="684" height="771" />Cheryl seen here with Malcolm is said to be stunned by her long-term lover&#8217;s brazen duplicity. The pair share two children after a 20-year relationship</strong></h6>
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<p>It is believed Malcolm met Bell on Facebook. A friend speculates that Bell, his new: “wife has Mormon stuff over her Facebook, so maybe that has affected him.”</p>
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British dad reported missing by his partner and kids in Scotland turns up days later in Utah with a brand new wife, starting a new life! Malcolm McGregor wed Valek Bell within days of stepping into US
