Cathleen
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There are so many ways to go with this one, but dumb cannot be denied. Isn't one wife enough - isn't a single bybass enough? lol
Cambridge UK:
Bigamist's secret life fell apart the day his three wives came to visit
By Catriona Davies
(Filed: 11/08/2005)
A double bigamist was caught out when all three of his wives visited him in hospital at the same time.
Melvyn Reed had managed to keep his three wives secret from each other before he went into hospital for a heart bypass operation.
He had believed he could get away with having all three women visiting him separately in hospital - but they met when the visiting times got "out of synch".
Two weeks after his discharge from hospital, Reed, 59, walked into Wimbledon police station, south-west London, and gave himself up.
Reed received a four-month suspended sentence at Wimbledon magistrates' court last month and was ordered to pay £70 costs after admitting two counts of bigamy.
He married Jean Grafton in Fulham, west London, at the age of 20 in 1966 when he was working as a salesman. He and his first wife, a secretary two years his senior, had three children before the marriage broke down.
Divorce proceedings were started but never completed, and the couple stayed in contact over the years.
In 1998, at the age of 52 and while he was living in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, Reed went through a wedding ceremony with 38-year-old divorcee Denise Harrington, who worked as a sales administrator in the motor trade, at Doncaster register office.
On his marriage certificate, he described himself as a bachelor working as a regional manager in the motor trade.
A third wife was brought into the equation in 2003 when Reed, by then 57, married Lyndsey Hutchinson, 53, at a hotel on Wimbledon Common, south-west London.
The latest of the Mrs Reeds, also a divorcee, was a receptionist, and Reed was by then a shop owner.
He managed to keep all three wives ignorant of each other for almost two years.
It was only when Reed became ill and went into hospital that his deception was discovered. He told police in a statement: "Unfortunately the timing of the visits went out of sync and they all arrived at once."
Despite the exposure of his triple life, Reed has moved back in with his first wife, in Kettering, Northants.
A neighbour of the couple told yesterday's London Evening Standard: "He used to be away quite a lot. He did used to say he had a property in the North, perhaps in Doncaster. We used to joke that maybe that was where his girlfriend lived.
"Once we saw him leave the house by himself at 9am on Christmas Day. Who leaves their wife first thing in the morning on Christmas Day?"
A neighbour of Reed's second wife, who is now living in Isleworth, west London, said: "Melvyn seemed nice enough, an ordinary bloke in his 50s, balding and with a paunch. Not three wives material, that's for sure."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma...big11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/11/ixhome.html
Cambridge UK:
Bigamist's secret life fell apart the day his three wives came to visit
By Catriona Davies
(Filed: 11/08/2005)
A double bigamist was caught out when all three of his wives visited him in hospital at the same time.
Melvyn Reed had managed to keep his three wives secret from each other before he went into hospital for a heart bypass operation.
He had believed he could get away with having all three women visiting him separately in hospital - but they met when the visiting times got "out of synch".
Two weeks after his discharge from hospital, Reed, 59, walked into Wimbledon police station, south-west London, and gave himself up.
Reed received a four-month suspended sentence at Wimbledon magistrates' court last month and was ordered to pay £70 costs after admitting two counts of bigamy.
He married Jean Grafton in Fulham, west London, at the age of 20 in 1966 when he was working as a salesman. He and his first wife, a secretary two years his senior, had three children before the marriage broke down.
Divorce proceedings were started but never completed, and the couple stayed in contact over the years.
In 1998, at the age of 52 and while he was living in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, Reed went through a wedding ceremony with 38-year-old divorcee Denise Harrington, who worked as a sales administrator in the motor trade, at Doncaster register office.
On his marriage certificate, he described himself as a bachelor working as a regional manager in the motor trade.
A third wife was brought into the equation in 2003 when Reed, by then 57, married Lyndsey Hutchinson, 53, at a hotel on Wimbledon Common, south-west London.
The latest of the Mrs Reeds, also a divorcee, was a receptionist, and Reed was by then a shop owner.
He managed to keep all three wives ignorant of each other for almost two years.
It was only when Reed became ill and went into hospital that his deception was discovered. He told police in a statement: "Unfortunately the timing of the visits went out of sync and they all arrived at once."
Despite the exposure of his triple life, Reed has moved back in with his first wife, in Kettering, Northants.
A neighbour of the couple told yesterday's London Evening Standard: "He used to be away quite a lot. He did used to say he had a property in the North, perhaps in Doncaster. We used to joke that maybe that was where his girlfriend lived.
"Once we saw him leave the house by himself at 9am on Christmas Day. Who leaves their wife first thing in the morning on Christmas Day?"
A neighbour of Reed's second wife, who is now living in Isleworth, west London, said: "Melvyn seemed nice enough, an ordinary bloke in his 50s, balding and with a paunch. Not three wives material, that's for sure."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma...big11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/11/ixhome.html
