It's possible that Gary Dean, a Lancashire businessman, has discovered a new use for the internet. Dean has set up deandivorce.com, a "standalone website ... so that the truth about my divorce settlement is available to anyone who wants to know about it".
It's all curiously heartfelt; he insists that he isn't sour about the deal, or angry with his ex-wife, but merely want to stop gossips misrepresenting him as a "greedy, tight, ruthless bastard who abandoned my wife and children, walking off with millions and leaving my family almost destitute".
Particularly, he says he's happy with the amount of the settlement and had even offered a bigger lump sum initially. Along the way, he stops to wonder whether declining divorce rates are down to people staying in bad marriages for fear of the financial costs of divorce, and drops in a (borrowed) joke about an Arsenal footballer's ruinous settlement ("[Ray] Parlour in less money than sense shock"). Then the main event:
1. A cash lump sum of £3,719,000.00 (three million seven hundred & nineteen thousand pounds)
2. Plus £15,000.00 per child per annum until the age of 17 years or the completion of full time education.
3. Plus all private school fees
4. Plus all jewellery, diamonds and watches, Mercedes E500, Audi Convertible 3.0.
5. Plus cherished number plates 7HD and 10HD.
Does anyone else think he destroys his case by mentioning the number plates?
