'Quickie' divorce for newspaper tycoon
Newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond was divorced by his wife of 27 years yesterday.
Neither the 58-year-old Express Group chief nor Janet Desmond, two years his junior, attended the Principal Registry of the High Court’s Family Division in London. Mrs Desmond was granted a decree nisi by District Judge Anne Aitken under the special procedure rule on the grounds of her husband’s unreasonable behaviour.