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Edward Erin: Adulterer and All-round Evil Man

It’s been quite the week for cheaters at the evil end of the scale already. Yesterday we reported on the case of Lucasz Reszpondek who killed the woman he’d been having an affair with in order to make sure his wife didn’t find out.

Today, the medical profession is reeling from the news that Edward Erin – a consultant at a central London hospital – was cheating on his wife. Nothing too out of the ordinary there.

But then his lover fell pregnant. Terrified of the fallout, he set about the issue as any normal man would: he spoke honestly to his wife about what happened and promised his lover that he would stand by her for emotional and financial support as far as his circumstances would allow.

Just joking: he tried to feed her poison to induce an abortion.

Hell.

Bizarrely, his wife has announced that she is prepared to “stand by her man”, even as he faces 6 years in chokey. This despite Judge Richard Hone’s accurate description of him:

“You are a flawed character. One part of you is a doctor caring for his patients. But your other part is self-centred, vainglorious and irresponsible. The three affairs … illustrate how you exploited your senior position as a consultant respiratory physician to lure women into sexual relations. Your property wealth, tailored wardrobe, high lifestyle, illicit weekends and expensive trinkets dazzled those whom you designed to seduce. You are clever, but also devious and dishonest. You inhabited a fantasy world.”

As in so many cases, Erin is now free to spend a lifetime to reflect that a few exciting shags on the side can cost way more than the price of a cheap hotel room and a couple of drinks. The silver lining to this cloud is that he failed in his attempts to kill his unborn son, and Ernie is now a healthy two year old. Let’s hope he doesn’t grow up like his dad.

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