Barbara Louise Halliday looked at herself in the mirror. Rodney loved her when she was dolled up to the nines in all her finery: hair immaculately coiffeured, cleavage tantalizingly revealed, skirt not too short but just short enough, her husband’s favourite perfume lingering around her pulse points. She looked at the rings on her fingers: at least £20,000 worth on each hand.

Rod was proud of what he had done for her – for them. ‘We made it Babs’ were his words when he made his first million. And that had been just the start. More millions soon followed; wealth beyond their wildest dreams. But something didn’t add up for Babs; it never had done. Yes, the property development business made money – big money – but there was another source of income that Rodney An...

Please subscribe to keep reading.