Matthew Sands
This character first appeared in Rebecca's Journey the first of the side tales and Season Seven
Matthew Sands is a lawyer and is married to
Susan Sands with whom he had a son, Frank. Matthew lives with his family in Rochester, New Hampshire. Matthew is the maternal uncle of
Rebecca Sands the former
Spirit of Kindness. Both he and his wife are aware that
Rebecca Sandswas a minor spirit of virtue.
Matthew, his wife and son are committed and faithful Christians.
Matthew suffers a form of night blindness which means he can not drive at night.
When Matthew's younger sister died in England, and her orphaned niece,
Rebecca Sands, was found by members of IDEC-UK and taken to their UK base where
Rebecca Sands got rid of her low grade powers and gained her human soul. She was then meant to have been flown to New Hampshire to be collected by Matthew.
However after her plane had to divert because of bad weather, his niece got arrested in New York on trumped up charges in an unofficial competition between NYPD precincts over who could clear the most extradition warrants.
Matthew got the law firm he works for, New York head office, to get her out of custody and while a colleague drove him down to New York City arranged for his niece to be fostered by a couple he knew from way back, who had even attended his wedding.
After finally returning to New Hampshire, and after an incident where
Rebecca Sands was almost abducted by two child molesters because a bigoted woman would not let her into a church building for a youth club, on account of
Rebecca Sands parentage, Matthew and his wife legally adopted Rebecca as their daughter. This had been something he had wanted to do years before as a way of trying to deal with a family row between his sister and his father, but initially thought had no longer been an option as he thought his son might object.
When a rouge aide of
Mr Vee had Matthew's wife and, (by now), adopted daughter captured by an IDEC-US retrieval squad. He thought he would never see either again.
They were released separately, twenty four hours later, minus their clothes.
Susan Sands in her car and
Rebecca Sands dumped in a baseball park, naked tied up, gagged and blindfolded.
Because of the way his wife and daughter had been "released" he was informed by
Kathryn Cooper Chair of the executive committee of the IDEC, that the person who had mishandled the release had been asked to resign, and Matthew was invited to be part of the IDEC executive oversight committee. An invite which he accepted.
Matthew now assists, on a part time basis, with legal requirements of the IDEC.