He said, 'Well, you need time to process this. 'What? What do you mean you're not divorced? I don't understand.' Why am I going tomorrow morning?'Īnd he went into the drawer like it was nothing and pulled out the fake divorce order and says, 'I'm not divorced.' So it's not fair for me to go there tomorrow morning and find out why I'm going when I know you know. I'm going there tomorrow morning and I know that you know why I have to go. So by the time he came home, I changed my tune and I said, 'I'm going to tell you something.

I have no idea.'Īnd I knew better than that because now I knew that, like I said, a month prior there was a meeting. Any idea what this is about?'Īnd he was like, 'I don't know what this is about. And I said, 'Hey, I just got a call from the detective from York Region who wants me to meet her tomorrow morning.

I called him and he was in Oakville on the way back. OUT IN THE OPEN: What happens your husband turns out to be a notorious conman?.AS IT HAPPENS: Why this prof wants to make it illegal to dupe people into sex online.He said it was for a client.Īnd that appointment in his calendar was no longer there.Īnd that struck me because all of the meetings that he normally had with clients and the like were all still in his calendar - but that meeting for a month prior was gone. and I asked him why he had to go meet with the police officer in York Region. that James also had a meeting in his calendar for a month earlier for a police officer. Could you meet me at the police station?'Īnd she says, 'I can't tell you what this is about.'Īnd then I remembered. I was at work one day and this detective called me and she said, you know, 'I'm calling from York Region. How long after did that incident at the police station take place?Ībout a month after. Jennifer Packwood, victim of forgery and bigamyĪt what point, then, did things begin to unravel? Should I have known? Could I have known? What did I miss? And there's nothing. Someone that was willing to let me grow in the direction that I wanted to grow in.

You know, someone that had loved me back. I thought that I was marrying my best friend, my confidant, someone that I had spent the last 10 years with. Yeah, it was one of the best days of my life. I remember having everybody that was really, really close to me there. Can you tell me about that wedding day? What what did it mean to you? James told you he got a divorce, and you ended up getting married - or at least you thought you were getting married - in May 2018. I believed that they were separated, although living together in the same home. What did he tell you about where his relationship with. And she's not alone. Packwood spoke to As It Happens guest host Megan Williams about what it was like to be duped by the man she loved. Morton pleaded guilty in May to forgery and bigamy His licence has since been suspended, and he will be sentenced in September.Īt a sentencing hearing this week, Morton's wife described how her husband's actions destroyed her life. Packwood, a Hamilton law clerk, married Morton, a prominent Ontario and Nunavut lawyer, in 2018, believing he was divorced from his wife, a justice of the peace in Newmarket, Ont.īut it turns out Morton was still legally married and had forged legal documents to get his certificate of divorce. Jennifer Packwood doesn't blame herself for what James Morton did to her - but it's been a long road getting there.

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