No, I left her because she cheated and had a drink problem
She started boozing at 14... and has no right to defy electorate
GINA MILLER’S former husband last night hit back at her claims that he abused her during their marriage.
Financier Jon Maguire, 55, said: ‘It is a total lie.’
He conceded that she had called police on one occasion, claiming he had hit her. But he insisted that her allegation was untrue.
He said that his eldest son by a previous marriage was present at the time and told police his father had not attacked Mrs Miller.
‘We had an argument, she left the house, sat in the car and called police. Women do sometimes try to win arguments with these stunts.’
He claimed Mrs Miller, with whom he used to run a company, had a ‘drink problem’ dating back to when her parents sent her to England.
‘They put her in this big house – she was about 14 and she was running a house with maybe ten tenants.
‘She was drinking because she was unable to cope with the pressure. She told me she would drink her way out of it. Once she has a bit to drink she gets moody and aggressive. It is the legacy of her childhood.’
Mrs Miller rejects those claims.
Mr Maguire said the reason they broke up 13 years ago was because of his ex-wife’s ‘drinking – that and [her third husband] Alan Miller’s money. I’m not a millionaire. She was very driven by that.’
He claimed she left him for the hedge fund boss after meeting him through work. ‘He started taking her out to lunches and dinners that I knew nothing about. She left me for him.’
It was ‘rubbish’ to say their marriage broke down because he abused her.
‘She is trying to put a brave face on it because she does not want to be seen as someone who left me for Miller.’ Mrs Miller maintains her relationship with Mr Miller did not start until her marriage to Mr Maguire was over.
Mr Maguire said it was he who took legal action to seek access to Mrs Miller’s daughter by her first marriage, Lucy Ann.
Mr Maguire stood for the Right-wing English Democrat Party in Chippenham at the 2010 Election. He stood on an anti-immigration and anti-EU platform but won barely 300 votes and lost his deposit. He has reportedly said that homosexuality is a ‘cul-de-sac for the human race’.
He said his ex-wife had no right to challenge Brexit in the courts. ‘She has always wanted the limelight. When the British people have voted that should put an end to it.’
Mr Maguire said Mrs Miller could never have launched her legal case without her husband’s fortune. ‘She is on a ticket but it will bite her hard because she is messing round with half this country – and she is not from this country.’
Mr Maguire, who is currently working in Malawi on a free school meals project, said: ‘I am a Christian and would like Britain to be a Christian country but immigration has made it impossible.’
She has always wanted a place in the limelight