Bigamy trial told of Facebook picture suspicion

A SCOTTISH IT consultant who secretly married another woman behind his wife’s back was caught out after she spotted a picture of the couple together on Facebook, a court has heard.

Iain Theyers, 45, tied the knot with Louise Martin while still allegedly hitched to wife of five years Marian Belahonia.

Spanish teacher Marian Belahonia, a mother of one, became suspicious after they split up and he suddenly no longer kept in contact with their son and vanished.

She employed a private investigator to track him down, without success, in an effort to file for divorce.

Instead she did her own Facebook detection, finding his profile only to be shocked to find a new woman she suspected he had married.

She was later to learn he had got married again in Bridlington, East Yorkshire,and she went to the police.

Self employed Mr Theyers, 45, of Balloch, near Inverness, has gone on trial at Hull Crown Court denying a charge of bigamy.

Gordon Stables, prosecuting, told the jury he would seek to prove Mr Theyers married Mrs Martin when “he was and still is married and his wife was, and still is alive – she being Marian Belahonia.”

He said the relationship blossomed, with Ms Belahonia moving in with Mr Theyers in Nottingham in December 2005.

Mr Stables said he lied to the registrar at Bridlington Town Hall before his marriage to Ms Martin when asked if he had ever been married after his first marriage with Kelly Jones ended on June 6 2006.

The trial, which is expected to last a week, continues.