Kelly Delaney only learnt the full extent of her husband's lies and deceit after his body was found in Victorian bushland.
Like many young women of the 1970s who dreamed of getting married and having children, Kelly Delaney hastily wed the first eligible bachelor who came along.
Luke then insisted that he set up a joint bank account and took control of the couple's combined finances. Kelly said she would be tasked with dealing with the "red letters" in the mail and negotiating extensions on overdue bill payments as Luke quietly drained their account to fuel his gambling addiction.Kelly would keep up appearances to the outside world that nothing was wrong to preserve Luke's dignity as a respected banker.Playing the role of happy dinner party hostess, wife and mother to friends and Luke's bank colleagues, Kelly would never tell anyone his secret.
"It was easier for me not to upset or poke the bear because when I poked the bear, it became very angry," she said. Kelly said her husband's death set in train a criminal investigation that would ultimately uncover a sophisticated loan scheme in which he had created more than 200 fake account names to embezzle more than $7 million from his employer.
It confirmed that Luke had resigned from his long-term job six weeks prior to his death and had started a finance broking business with two friends.
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