Craig Whyte’s a writer? He’s still in the bad books with us
Father-in-law slams ex-Rangers chief
Craig McDonald The father-in-law of ex-Rangers owner Craig Whyte has hit out at the businesman’s plans to publish a book and claims he’s failed to support his children.
Whyte is set to release an account of his controversial time in charge of the Ibrox club which ended with them being plunged into liquidation.
A leaked chapter last week claimed he will allege a top-flight Scottish club offered to throw a match for cash.
But Hugh Martin, father of Whyte’s estranged wife Kim, said the entrepreneur would be better off keeping quiet.
Kim, 47, is in the process of divorcing Whyte with whom she has three children.
Hugh said Kim, who moved to England after splitting from her husband, was “not getting a penny” from Whyte in f inancial support.
Hugh said: “It might be the gentlemanly thing to direct any profits from a book towards his children – but he’s not a gentleman so you can forget about that. He hasn’t paid a bean towards his own children and divorce proceedings are ongoing.”
A pitch for the book, provisionally titled True Blue Treachery, has been sent to publishers but sections have emerged online.
Whyte took over at Ibrox in April 2011. The club went into administration in February 2012 before being liquidated.
He was cleared of fraud over his £1 Rangers takeover after a High Court trial earlier this year. Whyte writes in a draft of the book: “The irony is while there are many who have the blood of Rangers on their hands following the club’s liquidation in 2012, I am not one of them. Yet I’m the bad guy apparently.” Hugh, 76, of Gif fnock, Glasgow, added: “Is it a joke? I’m sure he thinks everything is everyone else’s fault. I think he has a cheek. “If he’s trying to exonerate himself, he’s just compounding a felony. I would have thought it might be better for a man in his position to keep schtum. “I didn’t know he was capable of writing a book. I never thought of him as an author. I don’t think it will sell and I certainly won’t be buying a copy.”
Advocate Alison Wild, for Kim, told the Court of Session in Edinburgh in August that solicitors had hoped to find leads to obtain some finances for her client but said all their efforts had “drawn a blank”.
Wild said: “The pursuer ( Kim) is resigned to the fact that she is going to have to obtain a divorce with no financial provision.”
Whyte, 46, who was not present or represented, previously had a £ 5000- amonth aliment order made against him.
He had a bankruptcy order over a £20million debt lifted last November.