He kept wife in the dark till victims came knocking

Saturday march 25, 2006

Richard Lee, a property agent, had piled up huge soccer betting debts. To raise money to repay them, he offered some acquaintance and former clients a way to get rich quick - a buy low sell high scheme on a property in which profits will be split among them.

I pity Mrs Lee as she has 2 young kids to look after. After what her husband did, she will cause all her clients to lose confidence in her as her husband had already tainted the reputation. Now that the breadwinner has been sent to jail, she will then has to feud for herself, her two kids and a maid. How is she going to cope? In this kind of situation, I feel that the government should step in as this kind of cases is normal. The problem lies in how the family is going to survive for seven long years without a proper income?