Sentence due on husband who plundered accounts to please wife

A doting husband is due to be sentenced today after buying his second wife happiness with more than half a million pounds plundered from global accountancy giant KPMG.

Former director Andrew Wetherall, 49, said when her previous partner tried to reduce maintenance payments he was concerned her lifestyle might suffer and trigger another divorce.

So when her extravagant spending sprees reached a staggering £15,000 a month, he felt he had no choice but turn to crime.

London's Southwark Crown Court heard he spent years ravaging the expenses system to shower her with expensive watches, top-of-the range cars and five-star holidays.

By the time he was arrested £545,620 was missing.

The father-of-two, of Christchurch Close, St Albans, Hertfordshire, who has since repaid nearly £340,000, pleaded guilty to false accounting and fraud.