A WOMAN discovered her husband was already married after she hired a private detective to snoop into his past, the Echo reports.

Wendy Lee became suspicious that her husband David Jones was already wed to someone else following her own ceremony on September 16 last year.

To relieve her concerns, she hired a detective who soon found that Mr Jones had been married - for 13 years.

Following the revelation, Ms Lee called Essex Police who launched their own investigation into the 48-year-old.

He was soon arrested on suspicion of bigamy.

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