Brother has two children with his own sister and is now fighting to marry her

Ana Parra and Daniel Parra say they are fighting to change Spain’s sibling marriage laws so they can legally wed

Ana Parra was just 20 when she first met her estranged half-brother, Daniel Parra – and the chemistry was immediate.

The Spanish pair, who have since had two children together, are now campaigning to change the law so they can legally marry.

Ana was always aware that she had a half-brother somewhere. As a child, she knew her father had left her to start a new life with another woman, with whom he had children.

One of those children was Daniel, who revealed: “Someone had told me that maybe I had a sister out there, but my father never told me, it was something he wanted to hide.”

Intrigued to meet her sibling, Ana found Daniel on Facebook and suggested they meet up. They both describe their first encounter as love at first sight.

“We didn’t want to realise it,” Ana confessed, “we were angry with ourselves because it was hard to admit and break that taboo – we are siblings even though we didn’t feel that way.”

Their first kiss occurred at a party they both attended. “We were partying, we approached each other slowly and gave each other our first kiss.”

Ana recalls feeling “ashamed” about what happened, but for Daniel, the moment was transformative: “That kiss broke all barriers, marked a before and after, it was like a reality check.”

A few days later, they arranged to meet again, yet were hesitant to acknowledge their romantic feelings.

Daniel admitted: “Imagine liking a girl and, for a moral reason, being forbidden to be with her. It’s really hard to deal with.”

It was only following a getaway to London, where the duo felt they could behave as a romantic pair without facing scrutiny, that they chose to make their relationship public.

Ana said: “That was the first time we can say that we behaved, in public, like a real couple. We went out to dinner, we took walks. It was like an explosion of freedom.”

Astonishingly, the pair opted to make a joint television appearance, with Anna explaining: “We didn’t feel like telling everyone our story one by one, so that’s why we decided to tell it this way.”

However, they faced waves of online hatred regarding their incestuous liaison. “There are people who have written to us on social media telling us that we’re going to burn in hell,” said Ana.

This didn’t discourage the sibling-lovers, who now share two children. Both youngsters, they claim, are “perfectly healthy”, despite the elevated risk of genetic disorders given their parents’ blood relation.

In Spain, consensual incest remains lawful. Nevertheless, Spanish Civil Code prohibits matrimony between family members.

Daniel and Ana are determined to alter this legislation and harbour hopes that they will eventually be permitted to wed.

“Societies must advance and not cling to traditionalism,” Ana proclaimed. “Homosexuals were also not allowed to marry and now they can.

“We love each other and that is what should prevail. We are not harming anyone. That is why we want people to know our story.”