Jann Pollard
Headline:
Charming church minister who boasted of riches when in fact he was a conman and bigamist
Synopsis:
He's the charming church minister who boasted of family money and a glittering writing career. But Roderick Sangster was in fact a conman and bigamist. Here, 'wife No3' Jann tells how she turned detective to expose the truth...
Everything was gloriously perfect about Jann Pollard's wedding day: the sun shone as the pony and trap carried her to St Paul's Church in Leamington Spa that warm July day, where more than 100 of her delighted close family and friends waited to celebrate the occasion.
With two failed marriages behind her and having recently recovered from breast cancer, Jann was thrilled to walk up the aisle towards former Scottish church minister Roderick Sangster; the man she described as her 'Mr Perfect'.
'It was the happiest day of my life,' says 56-year-old Jann, who married Roderick in 2004. 'No one had ever treated me with such love and respect as Rod. He was the kindest, most romantic man I'd ever met.'
Today, when accountant Jann looks at her wedding pictures she wouldn't change a thing, with perhaps one exception - the groom.
For Jann would later discover - after Roderick Sangster had walked out on her after two-and-a-half years, leaving £55,000 of debt - that he was not only a 'conman', but a bigamist.
The day he'd gazed into Jann's eyes in church, promising to love her for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, he was still married - to his second wife Jill Sangster, a saleswoman he'd walked out on after six years of marriage, and also left with £30,000 of debt.
- Publish date:
- 17 November 2008
- Author:
- Helen Weathers
- Source:
- Daily Mail
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