Domestic Goddess
11-08-05, 07:47 PM
THE MAN WITH THREE WIVES
A man has been exposed as a double bigamist after his three wives showed up to visit him in hospital.
Melvyn Reed was recovering from a triple bypass heart operation when his deception was exposed.
The 59-year-old was trying to pass off his third wife, Lyndsey, as a hospital visitor to his second, Denise, when his first and only legal wife, Jean, appeared.
The wives reportedly held a meeting in the parking lot soon after and learned they were all married to the same man.
The company director from Kettering turned himself in to police in Wimbledon, south London, on May 12.
He was charged with two counts of bigamy and pleaded guilty at Wimbledon Magistrates' court on July 19.
Reed was given a four-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £70 in costs.
Solicitor Laurence Grant said Reed felt his first wife was not strong enough to cope with a divorce so he stayed married to her and "kind of fell into the other relationships".
He married his first wife, Jean Grafton, in 1966, then left her without divorcing her.
He went on to marry Denise Harrington in 1998, then married Lyndsey Hutchinson in 2003.
His first wife is said to be standing by him and sharing a three-bedroom home with him.
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I think the three women should lynch him. I wonder if he's particularly good looking or rich? I would LOVE to have been a fly on that hospital wall!
A man has been exposed as a double bigamist after his three wives showed up to visit him in hospital.
Melvyn Reed was recovering from a triple bypass heart operation when his deception was exposed.
The 59-year-old was trying to pass off his third wife, Lyndsey, as a hospital visitor to his second, Denise, when his first and only legal wife, Jean, appeared.
The wives reportedly held a meeting in the parking lot soon after and learned they were all married to the same man.
The company director from Kettering turned himself in to police in Wimbledon, south London, on May 12.
He was charged with two counts of bigamy and pleaded guilty at Wimbledon Magistrates' court on July 19.
Reed was given a four-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £70 in costs.
Solicitor Laurence Grant said Reed felt his first wife was not strong enough to cope with a divorce so he stayed married to her and "kind of fell into the other relationships".
He married his first wife, Jean Grafton, in 1966, then left her without divorcing her.
He went on to marry Denise Harrington in 1998, then married Lyndsey Hutchinson in 2003.
His first wife is said to be standing by him and sharing a three-bedroom home with him.
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I think the three women should lynch him. I wonder if he's particularly good looking or rich? I would LOVE to have been a fly on that hospital wall!