EuroMillions winner Gillian Bayford’s new husband is a convicted fraudster jailed for a £13,000 Tesco scam on the same day she scooped her £148 million jackpot.
Gillian, 45, married Brian Deans, 37, last week at the Fairmont Hotel in St Andrews.
But six years ago their lives took very different turns.
On August 10 2012 Gillian and then husband Adrian scooped an enormous £148 million jackpot when they matched all the numbers in a EuroMillions draw.
The same evening Deans was starting his first night of a six-month jail sentence in Perth Prison after admitting defrauding £13,574.04 from his former employers Tesco.
Gillian, who now goes by the name Bayford-Deans, said she was aware of his past – and declined to say whether the pair had signed a celebrity-style pre-nuptial agreement.
Brian and his accomplice Kevin Meldrum, both 31, were both jailed for six months on August 10 2012 after both admitted carrying out a £13,574.04 scam while working for Tesco.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard the pair “formed a fraudulent scheme” to carry out bogus customer refunds and pay them into their bank accounts from the Tesco Extra store in Dundee’s South Road and the supermarket giant’s call centre in Baird Avenue.
Deans and Meldrum were jailed for six months each.
Gillian, who now lives in Newport in Fife, said: “I don’t zip up the back” when asked about her knowledge of her new husband’s criminal past.
Speaking to The Scottish Sun, she said: “I don’t have a massive zip up my back. I’ve known from the very beginning and it doesn’t bother me.
“Everyone has a past but you can’t live in the past. You’ve got to move on.
“It was six years ago and he’s been punished for being silly. He can’t be made to suffer for the rest of his life.”
