His family have disowned him and he no longer has any contact with any of them.

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He disowned his son when he was captured by the Germans in the second world war.

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Might Mr Fischer find himself disowned by his party over one of his first decisions in office?

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But after the Labour Party referred the allegations to the police, Mr Thompson disowned most of them.

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Several members of the Tsarnaev family have condemned and disowned the brothers, but their parents have insisted they must have been framed.

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King was disowned by many of his supporters, was denounced as a traitor to the nation and his speaking fees dried up.

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But Pakistan denies he is a citizen, and believes he has separated from his wife and has been disowned by his family.

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But Mr Salmond insisted it was accurate - and disowned by Scotland.

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Earlier in the campaign, there was a row over the use of posters (disowned by Ms Moratti) that depicted Mr Berlusconi's eternal courtroom adversaries in the state-prosecution service as terrorists.

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His own story -- an immigrants' son, adopted and then disowned by one of the richest families in Perugia, suffering from fugue states and sleep-walking -- makes him one of the more interesting characters in the case.

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