Her Kitten Heels Are in My House ; Her Husband Betrayed Her in Dubai - and Went to Prison for Adultery. Now Mark Hawkins's Ex-Wife Tells for the First Time How He Destroyed Their Marriage, and the Torture of Seeing His Lover Turn Up in Britain to Carry On the Affair

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In the end, it was the Liverpool FC dressing gown hanging on the back of her bedroom door that made Helen Hawkins snap. She was packing her belongings into boxes last week when she saw it. It was a woman's size and belonged to Sally Antia - her husband Mark's mistress and the only person Helen knew who was as ardent a fan of The Reds as he was.

Helen had tolerated their initial friendship, born, ironically enough, from a love of football.

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Her Kitten Heels Are in My House ; Her Husband Betrayed Her in Dubai - and Went to Prison for Adultery. Now Mark Hawkins's Ex-Wife Tells for the First Time How He Destroyed Their Marriage, and the Torture of Seeing His Lover Turn Up in Britain to Carry On the Affair

But learning that Mark, 43, was sleeping with Sally in the home in Cheshire that Helen still owned, after everything he had put her through, was a step too far.

'Seeing that dressing gown made me feel sick,' recalls Helen. 'It rubbed salt into the wound.' Helen, 35, has until now maintained a dignified silence about the sorry state of her marriage - a silence she has kept under exceptional circumstances.

Mark and Sally, who is also married and a mother of two, were the British couple jailed in Dubai in May for adultery - a criminal breach of the Middle Eastern state's strict mo...

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