£148m lottery winner dumps fraudster hubby

LONDON – A lottery winner has dumped her fraudster husband after he squandered millions of her £148million fortune on cars, holidays, watches and five-star football trips, as friends say he saw her as nothing more than ‘a cash machine’.

Gillian Bayford is said to have thrown convicted fraudster Brian Deans, 43, out of her Scottish home after rowing over his spending sprees.

But friends say the 51-year-old had already ‘wasted a small fortune’ on jobless Deans, who quickly became used to her money.

They say, he would move out after rows with her - only to return as she treated him with lavish gifts, such as new cars.

And it is claimed she would do anything to keep her family together - after the pair became parents to a little girl during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.

“Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more,’ an insider told The Sun.

“If they had kept going the way they were, they could have ended up skint.”

JAILED FOR DEFRAUDING

Deans was jailed for defrauding a Tesco out of £13 500 in 2012 - the same week that Gillian and her ex-husband Adrian won their £148million windfall.

He and a friend, who had mad thousands putting fake customer refunds through the store, were both jailed for six months. When he came out he worked renovating properties.

The former conman is now running a pub in Auchterarder after being thought to have already spent everything he had from Gillian, in what the source called a ‘tragic story’.

Gillian and Deans had moved to the Perthshire farm from Broughty Ferry, outside Dundee, in an attempt to make a fresh start, which fell flat.

He was said to have been living in a rundown Dundee flat at the time that they met, but later moved into her mansion.

And soon, sources say, he became used to the money and would spend her cash flying friends out to football matches and showing off that he was the one paying.

DURBAN – The fate of the men accused of killing Kiernan Jarryd ‘AKA’ Forbes and Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane remains uncertain as two new charges were added to their matter.

The mood in the room of the Durban Magistrates Court was somewhat sombre for the relatives of the accused, after the fate of their loved ones remained unclear, following another court appearance.

Five of the seven accused – Lindokuhle Thabani Mkhwanazi, 30, Lindani Zenzele Ndimande, 35, Siyanda Eddie Myeza, 21, Mziwethemba Harvey Gwabeni, 36 and Lindokuhle Lindo Ndimande, 29 – made their second appearance in a packed courtroom, buzzing with sounds of cameras flashing and seats largely occupied by friends and families of the accused.

The Forbes family were absent from court.

The suspects are accused of shooting and killing musician Forbes, 35 and his friend, celebrity chef Motsoane, 41, outside the Wish restaurant on Florida Road, Durban, in February last year.

The accused are facing 10 charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, murder (Forbes), murder (Motsoane), unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and five counts of attempted murder. Two additional charges of money laundering were added by the State.

FIRST APPEARANCE

The men initially made their first appearance at the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last week after their arrest and the matter was provisionally postponed to Wednesday, where they made a brief second appearance for the verification of certain aspects of the bail application.

The accused are further reported to have received a payout of R800 000 for the hit. KwaZulu-Natal Deputy

Director of Public Prosecutions Elvis Gcweka told Magistrate Vincent Hlatshwayo that Gwabeni had been charged in connection with allegations of receiving money and distributing the funds with the four other accomplices, who stand accused of receiving funds obtained illegally. Magistrate Hlatshwayo indicated that the matter would be postponed to March 14, 2024 for the bail application, while the accused are to remain in custody at the Westville Prison in the interim.

He added that, it would be heard in a different courtroom in order to allow for everyone to be accommodated as the initial courtroom was ‘too small’.

The two other accused in the case, brothers Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande, were arrested in eSwatini last week and appeared at the Manzini District Court on Tuesday.

Their matter was postponed to March 12 and the court awaits extradition papers from the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa.