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A bigamous man had been given a suspended sentence for being financially supportive to his in laws (28 March 2013)

Date: 28/03/2013
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, A bigamous man had been given a suspended sentence for being financially supportive to his in laws

A businessman running a ceiling fan company had been tried for bigamy for marrying four different women but was let off with suspended sentence when he insisted that his Romanian wife’s family were financially dependant on him.

Peter Lloyd, 53, has admitted marrying his Thai girlfriend Malee three years before even he had divorced his first wife Karen. He went on to marry a further two women while still married to his Thai bride. That union was only dissolved in 2012. Since his second marriage was itself bigamous he was not charged for his subsequent marriages.

The father of three and churchgoer in the quiet Berkshire village of Twyford where he lives presently was spared a prison term after a judge heard that he was supporting the parents of his fourth and current wife, Georgetta.

Lloyd said that the details of his bigamy only emerged after a close friend reported against him because he (Lloyd) had given evidence in a major fraud case against him.
Kautilya Pruthi, 41, from Wandsworth, south-west London, was reported by Lloyd to police after he found out that Pruthi was conducting a Ponzi investment scheme fraud. In the same case Pruthi was later jailed for 14 years for masterminding one of the biggest Ponzi scams in the country and duping more than £115 million from victims. His victims included actor Jerome Flynn and cricketer Darren Gough.
Lloyd’s bigamy was reported by Pruthi as a revenge for the testimony of Lloyd, prompting authorities to investigate.
Reading Crown Court heard that Lloyd lost half a million pounds himself in the Ponzi scheme and was struggling to support his family while also sending money to his latest set of in-laws in Romania because they were in “in poor health and poverty-stricken circumstances”. Judge Zoe Smith gave him a six month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, after hearing statements from his three children.
Defending family lawyer said that his client had married his first sweetheart Karen in 1985 and had three children together during their 18 year marriage. But in the late 1990’s the relationship started to fall and when on a trip to Thailand Mr Lloyd met Malee he married her in 2000 but was still married to his first wife until 2003.
The family lawyer said that it was an unusual case. Mr Lloyd married his wife, Karen, in the mid-1980s lived for 18 years had three kids and yet it didn’t work nor his marriage with Malee and then his third wife Lizette. In 2010 he married his latest wife Georgette, who he now lives with at their four-bedroom home in Twyford.
The court heard references from Lloyd’s three children, pleading for their father not to be sent to jail. The daughter Rebekka, 22, said that all he ever wanted was the best for her and her siblings medical student Naomi, 19, and 14 year old schoolboy Samuel who also submitted their pleas to the court.

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