Article: Conman jilts pregnant bride three times . . . then runs off with [pounds sterling]9,000 of her money.

Byline: LUKE SALKELD

AFTER being jilted twice at the last minute by the same man, one might have thought Marie Hibberd would have smelled a rat.

But, having become pregnant by her unreliable fiance, the 37-year- old widow decided to give Ian Oldford one last chance.

After all, his excuses for cancelling the two wedding ceremonies - that he was not properly divorced and that a relative had just died - had seemed genuine.

Unfortunately for Mrs Hibberd, however, Oldford humiliated her for an astonishing third time, claiming that he had been in a car crash.

She got the news in a phone call but when she went looking for him at the house they planned to buy, she ...

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