HE EVEN TOOK MY CHILDREN'S TOYS, SAYS JILTED WIFE

JUST six months ago Sir Peter pleaded with his second wife to give their marriage another chance - even though he had not seen her for four years.

Terry de Vries, 35, who was "shocked" to learn of her estranged husband's new Thai lover, said last night: "He writes to me and phones, although he did miss my birthday last week and now I know why.

"He told me he loved me, missed me and wanted me to go back to England. I'm shocked that he's involved with such a young woman.

"But he always did have an eye for the young girls. I would see him looking whenever we went out."

She added: "He's a con artist. He comes over all charming and then he picks on vulnerable women who don't have the money or power to fight back. Now, when I think about it, I wonder if he ever loved me.

"He just loves to drink and sleep around. Who does he think he is? He makes me so angry. He is a child who hides behind his title."

South African-born Terry, who became Lady Moon when she married the baronet in 1993, earns only pounds 250 a month working in a fast food bar in Cape Town.

And she says because she has no money she cannot win back her four children from her first marriage who are in care in foster homes.

Shortly after their wedding Sir Peter stripped their house of its contents and vanished when she went away for a few days. Terry recalled: "He took the furniture, toys and a bicycle he had given the children. All he left behind was a small can of tinned milk.

"He sold my car and left the country. Then he begged me to join him in England and I did, but it was terrible.

"We fought, I slapped him and he hit me, really punched me."

Terry finally fled back to South Africa in January 1994.

She says now that Sir Peter has surfaced again she will seek a divorce.

She added: "I want him out of my life for good. A man who'll buy a child a bicycle and then take it away because he had a fight with its mother is not a man."

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