AFTER taking in a homeless teenager, a doting dad has been left believing that he’s made the biggest mistake of his life.
It seems that no good deed goes unpunished, as the kind gesture ended up wrecking Wayne Gardiner’s marriage.
After hearing that 17-year-old Tamsin Beezer was homeless, the dad-of-five was happy to let her into his home.
Wayne’s wife Sarah, 38, who works with Tamsin, received a panicked phone-call from the teen after she had been kicked out of her family home.
Determined to prevent Tamsin from sleeping on the streets, the caring couple allowed her to move in with them.
Wayne remembered: “I told my wife we could pick her up and let her stay with us to ensure she was safe…
“It wasn’t ideal, but I didn’t mind. I was pleased we could help and she seemed a pleasant enough kid.
“We’re a large family anyway, so having an extra person in the house wasn’t a big deal.”
As Sarah and Wayne’s eldest daughter Lucy, 21, had recently moved out, Tamsin quickly became a big sister figure for the other four Gardiner children.
It wasn’t until Tamsin had been in the house for two weeks that Wayne noticed a change in his wife’s behaviour.
A month into Tamsin’s stay, mum Sarah devastated the family by telling them that her and the teen were moving out.
Wayne recalled: “She got up, went upstairs and started packing a case. I ran after her, begging her to tell me what was going on.”
It wasn’t long after the pair moved out that Wayne got a phone call from his oldest daughter Lucy, who told him that Sarah had announced her relationship with teenage Tamsin on Facebook.
Over the next few months, Wayne had to deal with hurtful social media updates.
Sarah, the partner he had been with from the age of 14, was quick to announce her new engagement on Facebook, even though she was still married.
SUN UK