A thrice-wed electrician has been shamed by a court as a bigamist after he tied the knot with his third wife - while still legally married to his second.
Mark Rowlands, 47, married qualified nurse Kerry Adams at a Holiday Inn hotel despite not divorcing his previous spouse, Hayley Brown, whom he married eight years earlier. He was reported to police after Hayley - who had reverted back to her maiden name of Brown - learnt of her estranged husband's nuptials from a friend on a social media platform.
When later quizzed Rowlands from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, insisted he had instigated divorce proceedings with Hayley but claimed he had mistaken a decree nisi he had received for a certificate of divorce. It emerged Rowlands had divorced his first wife in 2004, then married Hayley at a seaside hotel in 2012 before they split a few years later.
