Lottery winner who won £148million dumps her fraudster husband after he squandered millions on cars, holidays, watches and five-star football trips - as friends say he saw her as nothing more than 'a cash machine'
By Iwan Stone23:18 GMT 08 Mar 2024 , updated 03:42 GMT 09 Mar 2024A lottery winner has dumped her fraudster husband after he squandered millions of her £148million fortune on cars, holidays, watches and five-star football trips - as friends say he saw her as nothing more than 'a cash machine'.
Gillian Bayford is said to have thrown convicted fraudster Brian Deans, 43, out of her Scottish home after rowing over his spending sprees.
But friends say the 51-year-old had already 'wasted a small fortune' on jobless Deans, who quickly became used to her money.
They say he would move out after rows with her - only to return as she treated him with lavish gifts, such as new cars.
And it is claimed she would do anything to keep her family together - after the pair became parents to a little girl during the 2020 Covid lockdown.
'Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more,' an insider told The Sun
Gillian Bayford threw convicted fraudster Brian Deans, 43, out of her Scottish home after rowing over his spending sprees. Pictured: Together on their wedding day
Gillian shared the huge Euromillions winnings with her then-husband Adrian, with whom she shares two children, aged 15 and 13 'If they had kept going the way they were they could have ended up skint.'
Deans was jailed for defrauding a Tesco out of £13,500 in 2012 - the same week that Gillian and her ex-husband Adrian won their £148million windfall.
He and a friend, who had mad thousands putting fake customer refunds through the store, were both jailed for six months. When he came out he worked renovating properties.
The former conman is now running a pub in Auchterarder after being thought to have already spent everything he had from Gillian, in what the source called a 'tragic story'.
Gillian and Deans had moved to the Perthshire farm from Broughty Ferry, outside Dundee, in an attempt to make a fresh start, which fell flat.
He was said to have been living in a rundown Dundee flat at the time that they met, but later moved into her mansion.
And soon, sources say, he became used to the money and would spend her cash flying friends out to football matches and showing off that he was the one paying.
She would give him a monthly allowance, but it is claimed 'besotted' Gillian would have to fork out more and more cash to cover his lavish tastes.
Gillian was working as a hospital worker at the time they won the lottery, while Adrian juggled being a postman alongside a second job running a music shop
Insiders claim his shopping sprees left her worried that all her fortune would be squandered.
The source continued: 'Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more.'
Gillian shared the huge Euromillions winnings with her then-husband Adrian, with whom she shares two children, aged 15 and 13.
She was working as a hospital worker at the time, while he juggled being a postman alongside a second job running a music shop.
But they split only 15 months later, blaming the stress of handling their newfound wealth for the end of their nine-year marriage.
The father-of-two has notoriously been unlucky in love with two failed romances behind him.
After they divorced Ms Bayford moved back to Scotland and married father-of-one Deans in 2018.
Her plans to start a family with Mr Deans were put on hold last year when a former boyfriend, Gavin Innes, accused her of beating him while they were together.
She was convicted of a breach of the peace and was admonished - meaning she was able to go free with a warning from the judge.
She said she was shocked when she first found out that she was pregnant with daughter Emilie, who is now six months.
Speaking of her new baby Emilie, Ms Bayford said: 'As far as she is concerned I'm not a lottery winner, I'm just Mum.
'Some things are easier because of the money but it doesn't really change anything. You still have to change a nappy or deal with her being sick on you regardless of how much you're worth.'
Ms Bayford, who runs a property business near her home in Dundee, insisted that baby Emilie won't be spoilt despite the family's vast wealth.
'She's not dressed in designer clothes. She's not got anything different to her brother and sister,' she told The Sun.
'They all need to know the value of money.'
Gillian refused to comment to The Sun, while Brian insisted that it was he who had ended the relationship.