Hit the road again, Jack
NZPA-AAP London Jack Pennington rediscovered the truism that charity begins at home when he returned from a 'lo,oookm journey in aid of charity: he found the front door locked against him and his wife had filed for divorce. The “London Daily Telegraph” said Mr Pennington encountered bandits and floods in claiming a record for towing a caravan across
the Sahara Desert. “When I arrived home all I wanted to do was sit down and rest,” said Mr Pennington, aged 46, of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, who made the journey to raise funds for a body scanner for the local hospital. “Instead, I found the door locked and within 15 minutes I had a court order slapped in my hand.”
Mr Pennington, who has been banned by the
court order from the family home and from communicating with his wife, Wendy, is now sleeping in the caravan. “Some people may think my husband’s scheme was adventurous, but I think it was harebrained,” said Mrs Pennington, who added that Mr Pennington planned the trip without any thought for her welfare or that of their seven-year-old daughter, Emma.
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Press, 15 October 1986, Page 10
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