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28-4-2001 Daily Record CAUGHT My man told me he was fishing...but I found out he was showing off his tackle to another woman GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN EXCLUSIVE A FISHERMAN'S girlfriend saw red when she realised all he'd been angling for was a bit on the side. Sharon Hunter caught Richard Young romping half naked with a young woman on the floor of the home they used to share. The 36-year-old mother of two picked up a stone and threw it through the window at the startled couple.And at Midlothian District Court this week, she was fined pounds 140 after she admitted disorderly conduct, malicious damage and breach of the peace. Sharon says Richard, 39, had told her he was spending his weekends away fishing - and she fell for it hook, line and sinker. But she later realised something fishy was going on because he never caught so much as a cold. Not only did he fail to catch any fish, but his clothes were dry and the packed lunches she had lovingly prepared were uneaten. Yesterday, shapely blonde Sharon told the Record she had been living with Richard for eight years when their relationship hit trouble, and last October they decided to live apart. The former auxiliary nurse said it was the fishing trips which first began to ring alarm bells, but her suspicions intensified with a series of mystery phone calls from someone who hung up when she answered. She first feared Richard might be seeing someone else towards the end of last year. And the last straw came when a friend said she had seen Richard out with another woman. Sharon said that on Hogmanay, she decided to go round to Richard's house - only to see him through the window having sex with another woman. Furious, Sharon tried to get into the house, but failed. Shouting and swearing hysterically, she picked up a rock from the garden and lobbed it through the front window. Sharon said: "I rang the door but no one answered, so I went to the living-room window and saw Richard and a young woman having sex on the living-room floor. "I saw red. I couldn't believe my own eyes. I was so hurt, I went crazy. It had been snowing and I bent down and scooped up an armful of snow and a piece of rock and threw it through the window. "As it smashed into the house I was screaming, 'You pig, you bastard'. I had never seen the girl before, all I could make out now was flashes of flesh." The startled couple jumped up and immediately called the police. Sharon said North Sea rigger Richard later admitted he'd been using the fishing trips as an alibi while romancing his new lover. She claimed he told her he had gone off her after a hysterectomy operation had left her "useless" and "gutted like a piece of meat". Sharon, of Loanhead, Midlothian, has a son Kevin, 12, from a previous relationship, and a daughter Amy, seven, from her relationship with Richard. Last week, Sharon pleaded guilty by letter at Midlothian District Court to causing a breach of the peace, disorderly conduct and maliciously damaging a window. And yesterday, she said she was lucky she hadn't been fined more as she had admitted in her letter that she would have liked to have smashed the rock over her cheating lover's head. Sharon said: "I don't think I'll ever trust a man again after what he did. "Richard told me I was past my sell-by date, that I was useless, like a piece of gutted meat, because of my hysterectomy."I can't believe he could be so cruel. It was very hard to take. "In the eight years we were together, he never took the family on holiday. "Now I find he took the woman I caught him with Christmas shopping in New York while I stayed at home with the children. "When I saw him having sex on the living-room floor of what until a few weeks before had been my home, I went crazy - I was hurting so much. "I threw the brick in anger when I saw them having sex, but in my letter to the JP I told her I would have hit Richard over the head with the brick if I could." Richard and his new lover were unavailable for comment. HOW TO SPOT THE DIFFERENCE...FISHING and sex are both popular past-times - but that's usually where the similarities end. Here are a few crucial differences: Fishing usually takes a few hours - sex usually takes a few minutes (if you're lucky). In fishing, you can exaggerate the size of your whopper. With sex, a tiddler is always a tiddler. You can smoke before, during and after fishing and the fish won't mind a bit. With fishing, the main object is to catch something. With sex, you hope you won't catch anything. If a fisherman loses his tackle, he can always buy some more. With sex, it's not so easy. A fisherman can hook a beauty, play with it for an hour then throw it back. And the fish won't expect him to phone the next day.
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