Love Rat Barry Buys Wife £80K Car

Oct 14 2007 By Russell Findlay

Boxing Boss Pays Heavyweight Price After Affair With Ex-Miss Scotland ..a £165k Bentley For Cheated Wife Exclusive

LOVE rat boxing boss Barry Hughes has bought his longsuffering wife Jackie a £165,000 Bentley in a desperate bid to save their marriage.

Friends say the car, with £80,000 personalised number plate JH2, is his way of saying "sorry" for cheating on her with ex-Miss Scotland Michelle Watson.

Last week Jackie, 30, was spotted parking the luxury motor in Glasgow city centre.

She filed for divorce when Hughes was caught sharing a £750-a-night suite in London's Berkeley Hotel with Michelle, 25, by the Sunday Mail in January.

One of his closest associates said: "His fling with Michelle was an expensive mistake.

"But the price tag on the Bentley is nothing compared to what he could have shelled out in a divorce. It certainly beats chocolates and a bunch of roses."

Dad-of-two Hughes, 28, faces trial for allegedly brandishing a knife in a Glasgow karaoke bar after hearing his wife was there with another man.

The troubled ex-boxer, manager of fallen world champ Scott Harrison, claims he is a multi-millionaire who made his fortune from property and car deals.

His father Donald's house in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, was visited as part of the Operation Maple police probe into money laundering.

And in the wake of stories linking him to gangland figures, he hired a PR firm to send out a warning letter saying he had no criminal convictions, was not involved in drug dealing and had never been involved in money laundering activities. He bought Jackie the special edition of the Bentley Continental GTC. At 16ft long, it goes from 0-60mph in just 4.8 seconds.

Jackie, who has been married to Hughes for three years, said at the time: "He told me he was away on business. I just feel humiliated."

Hughes, who owns Braveheart Security and Hughes International Holdings, made history as the first Brit to hold licences as a manager, promoter and fighter at the same time.

He runs security at nightclub doors around Scotland. This year he launched an unsuccessful £5million bid to buy Partick Thistle FC.

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It beats chocolates and a bunch of roses

Associate of Hughes