This guy is good

Hope the newspaper don't sue me for copying direct but am rather tired of having to hyperlink stuff.


Man busted by three wives
From correspondents in London
August 12, 2005



WHEN Melvyn Reed went into hospital for a heart bypass operation, his loved ones were anxious to be with him as he recovered.
But things got unexpectedly crowded around the bedside of the 58-year-old car salesman. And while his heart was on the mend, three others were soon broken.

For first, one of his wives turned up to comfort him. Then another. Then another. All within minutes of each other.

It was only then that the three women, who live in different parts of England, realised the bespectacled, portly businessman was a bigamist who had been living several secret lives for years.

Two weeks after he was discharged, Reed walked into a police station on the advice of his solicitor and admitted his deception.

He was later given a four-month suspended prison sentence by magistrates in Wimbledon for two counts of bigamy.

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Recalling the fateful day the three women all turned up at the hospital, Reed told police: "Unfortunately, the timing of the visits went out of sync and they all arrived at once."

His first wife -- his only legitimate one -- is said to be standing by him.