Sipping my tea, I grimaced with disgust and asked my husband Thomas if the milk was off. He shrugged, then said with a glint in his eye, ‘You never know, I could have put anything in it…’
I put his comment down to his dark sense of humour, never imagining the truth was far darker. I met Thomas Ferneyhough, 38, in November 2014 on a dating site. I was a recently divorced mum of two and Thomas caught my eye – at 6ft 3in, with dark hair, he was attractive, and after discovering we