A utility firm employee was meted a four-year prison term after Regional Trial Court judge Ray Alan Drilon found him guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of concubinage.

The wife of the accused with whom he has two children and whose name is being withheld, told the court that her husband has been living with his paramour since 2004 although their marriage has not been dissolved.

She said that there was an instance when she caught her husband in bed with another woman. She also said that they had a memorandum of agreement that her husband will give 50 percent of his pay and other benefits to her.

She said her husband, moved out from their house nine years ago and rented another with his paramour, with whom he has a child.

In his defense, the accused said the woman being referred to by his wife as a “paramour” is a commercial sex worker and denied that they are living under one roof.

He said that he moved out from their house and rented a new place so he could be near his workplace, and because he and his wife often quarreled as she was extremely jealous.

In giving his verdict, Drilon said it is evident from the proven circumstances that the accused had sexual relations with another woman not his wife.

The judge also stressed that what is worst is that the accused and the other woman presented themselves as husband and wife to the owner of the house they rented.*APN

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