Bigamist called Godsgift jailed

A woman named Godsgift tricked a wealthy businessman into marrying her when she already had two husbands, then conned him out of £200,000.

Godsgift Tettegah, described as a “strikingly attractive woman”, pursued John Thurlby, a demolition company boss, after they met in 2007 and he quickly fell head over heels in love with her, a court heard. Mr Thurlby, who was 61 at the time, ended a relationship he had with another woman and after dating Tettegah, who was 26 years his junior, they married in July 2008.


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Tettegah, 39, of The Belfry, Grantham, Lincs, was still the wife of Roger Long, whom she married four years earlier, and also had a husband in her native Ghana, Lincoln Crown Court heard.

She was jailed for 16 months after admitting bigamy and a further charge of perverting the course of justice by writing to magistrates aiming to discredit Mr Thurlby and get the case thrown out. Judge Michael Heath told Tettegah: “You are a strikingly attractive but very devious woman. Any man who becomes personally involved in you does so at his peril.’’

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