BIGAMIST EXPOSED; LOVE RAT FACES SIX YEARS IN PRISON.

Byline: Lynn Davidson

A HIGH-FLYING businessman can today be exposed by the Recordas a serial love rat and bigamist.

Alex Roy, 40, was still married to wife Denise when he wed blonde charity worker Morven Wylie.

The father-of-two still found time to set up home with two other women in a web of deceit over the last 12 months - proposing to both and getting them pregnant.

Roy juggled one life in Scotland with pretty blonde Deborah Watson and another in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with 22-yearold brunette Marie Jackson - while still "married" to both wives.

Both have since miscarried Roy's babies.

Debbie, 30, turned detective after cash went missing and she started to unravel his lies.

Shockingly, the fantasist had even told Marie that his parents and sister were dead - when they are alive and well.

Last night, his former fiancees said they had decided to speak to the Record to save other women from being taken in by Roy.

Debbie said: "He is charismatic and took everyone in with his lies. He needs to be stopped before he ruins anyone else's life."

And Marie added: "What he has done is absolutely disgusting. It is a total mess. God knows how many women he has married or tried to marry and got pregnant. This has been bombshell after bombshell after bombshell."

Roy, who has a conviction for football hooliganism, is from Airdrie and earned around pounds 45,000 a year as a business development manager for Ariston.

His job allowed him to travel up and down the country, giving him the opportunity to meet women and frequently be away from home.

Conned

Debbie, from Perth, found out about Marie via texts and emails, tracked her down and got in touch.

Both girls were stunned to find out they had been conned.

Debbie said: "When I got in touch withMarie, she was devastated.

Her world was also turned upside down. He fooled everyone apart from one friend of mine.

"He was so innocent looking - like he wouldn't harm a fly. He is a small guy, not great looking but he swept me off my feet. I should have known better but I was just out of a long-term relationship, so I was vulnerable.

"I felt sorry for him because he said he had been married but the marriage had been annulled because on the day of the wedding he found out the bride had slept with someone else. That was another lie."

Roy, who met Debbie at a trade fair in London at the start of the year, proposed to her on holiday in Canada in May with a pounds 2200 platinum diamond ring.

Meanwhile Marie, who Roy met through work, was attending a job interview in Edinburgh after Roy pleaded with her to move north.

She only found out the truth two weeks ago, courtesy of Debbie.

Marie said: "When Debbie confronted him, she tried to get him to go on the phone to me but he wouldn't speak and kept saying he had done nothing wrong and threw her phone away.

"He said we were psychos and had been stalking him and were obsessed with him and made excuses that he had nothing to do with us. I just kept my distance but then he drove almost all the way down to London and Debbie rang me and told me everything.

"She told me about the bigamy, the fact he is 10 years older than he said he was. He told me he was 30 when he is actually 40. He also never told me he had kids - one of his children is a year younger than me which I had no idea about. I was at the doctors and they have put me on anti-depressants and I have been signed off work. It is just all a total mess.

"I spoke to his parents and his sister who were all lovely but they said a lot of this had just come to their attention in the last few months and they are disgusted."

Prey

Debbie and Marie fear more female victims are likely to have fallen prey to Roy's charms after they discovered he had dating profiles on several websites.

Marie added: "I met Alex through work in January. We got together and very quickly the relationship became serious. He would come down almost every week from Scotland to see me. He then started talking about his dad being ill and then he said his dad had died so it was tough times.

"Then inMay, he proposed and had all of his mail from one of his homes redirected to where we stayed in High Wycombe.

"He moved all his stuff down.

"When I was in in Edinburgh for a job interview, he said he was in Canada with his mum but I found out he was actually in Canada with Debbie.

"Shortly after he said his mum died. Then he said his sister was a mess and tried to kill herself and then that she had taken a second overdose and had died.

"But I started getting suspicious about certain things. There were certain emails and texts which started to ring some bells. But he is the most manipulative person I have ever met. He makes you trust him.

"The more I talk to people, the more stuff is being uncovered. I think he had weddings planned all over the place - in Scotland, Ibiza and the US. I think he has been engaged about 18 times.

"I have not had the financial problems that his second wife and Debbie have had with money going missing.

"The main reason we are speaking out is because he is a very mentally unwell person and so very manipulative.

"He is just an evil mentally disturbed person and we don't want this to keep happening because unless people know about him it is going to keep going round and round.

"Lying about cheating is one thing but making people believe your family is dead is absolutely disgusting."

Debbie added: "We had a wedding booked in September in Edinburgh. I bought the wedding dress and six bridesmaid dresses, the cake was even ordered and my invites had been sent out.

"When I confronted him, he went grey and the colour drained from his face."

Roy is now in hiding but is due to be sentenced at Stirling Sheriff Court next month on bigamy charges.

His parents Eric and Martha Roy declined to comment last night.

Roy's second wife Morven Wylie said she wanted to put the whole episode behind her.

CAPTION(S):

DUPED: Deborah and Roy FANTASIST: Roy and Debbie. Top right, second wife Morvern. Bottom right, Marie TAKEN IN: Debbie with her engagement ring