You’ll remember back in April, that I reported on Maidenhead being the nookie capital of the UK…
Well, Maidenhead has gone and done it again… This time it’s the ITALIAN divorce capital of the UK.
It seems that the Italian divorce system is very slow…. so unhappy Italian couples have been paying €4,000 to a Dr Frederica Russo in the UK to get them a divorce after pretending that one of them lives in the UK. It might have gone on for many more years unnoticed but for an eagle-eyed court attendant who spotted the same address on two separate divorces. After bringing the matter to the attention of a Judge, more sleuthing was done and it became evident that 178 other couples all lived at the same address. Which was all the more remarkable when the address turned out to be no more than a mailbox.
DS Jonathan Groenen, the investigating officer, dryly remarked: “It is not possible for 179 applicants or respondents to reside at this address. Indeed, given the dimensions of the mailbox it is clear that not even a single individual, however small, could possibly reside in it.”
All of the divorces have now been declared void, and social media is awash with stories of this inevitably reinforcing national stereotypes - Hollywood stars and A List lawyers go to romantic Venice for their wedding, while Italians choose Maidenhead as a passion killer.
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