Wife’s horror after finding bigamist husband had secret life with another woman

A bigamist husband lived a secret life 100 miles away from his first wife with his new second bride.

Yve Gibney discovered her husband Maurice was married to someone else when she saw a wedding day image on Facebook, Birmingham Live reports.

The wealthy oil boss had been juggling his time between two women – Yve in the Wirral, north-west England, and teacher Suzanne Prudhoe, 100 miles away in Stourbridge, West Midlands.

Both were blissfully unaware of the other's existence and now Yve is writing a tell-all book about her experience, titled Face of a Bigamist.

Maurice received a six month suspended sentence for his crime in 2014.

The 60-year-old said: "The overwhelming emotion is one of absolutely betrayal. It's not just an affair.

"Marriage is a declaration of love and commitment. When you believe you’re in a contented relationship it’s not something you can ever contemplate.

"I was a victim of bigamy and I was emotionally scarred, but it doesn’t define me and I chose not to stay a victim.

"The best thing that came out of this, is that I and my sons are free of him."

The love rat spent £45,000 on a lavish wedding to his second wife in Oman where he was working.

Nurse Yve and Maurice met while they were both working in Nigeria and married after a whirlwind three-month romance.

The couple spent long periods of time apart during their marriage due to their jet-setting careers, but were in the middle of getting divorced when the true depths of Maurice's deception were revealed.

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Yve said: "With hindsight, for us to have lived apart we had to have a tremendous amount of trust.

"It wasn’t the traditional marriage, but for us, it worked. I trusted him and loved him unconditionally and I felt that he loved me back in the same way.

"His trips home became shorter and more infrequent which he put down to the pressures of work."

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Maurice met teacher Suzanne in September 2011. They were engaged eight months later and married in March 2013.

Describing finding the wedding photos on Facebook, Yve said: "I was looking at some of his family’s Facebook pages and I saw his sister wearing a fascinator (wedding hat) and his other sister all dressed up in wedding attire.

"I had this bizarre gut feeling that my husband had married someone else, but my friend said: 'Don’t be ridiculous'. But I couldn’t shake that feeling.

"His new family were completely unaware of my existence, he had told them we were divorced for several years and had kept it a secret to protect our son.

"In hindsight it now all makes sense. The duplicity still stings, however."

Maurice and Suzanne are still together and married.

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