I spent years with my partner but he left and I made a shock discovery

During their five-year relationship, Alison Smith would sometimes jokingly call her boyfriend ‘Sarge’.

‘He was very motivating,’ she smiles. ‘The kind of guy who would get you walking through deep snow in minus-ten degrees. It was one of the things I loved about him.’

But then, there seemed to be a lot to love about Mark Cassidy, a handsome, affable carpenter from Birkenhead with a ready sense of humour. Alison’s family liked him, as did her friends.

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