Bigamist avoids prison sentence

Teeside - A convicted bigamist narrowly avoided a prison sentence yesterday

Teeside - A convicted bigamist narrowly avoided a prison sentence yesterday. Robert Hutchings (53), a Protestant father of six and a former Irish Guardsman, was convicted of twice getting married in Newcastle, although he never divorced his first wife, Ms Violet Mason, whom he left in Belfast in 1978.

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