A woman who spent over £100,000 on her toyboy Sri Lankan husband is fighting to get her money back after discovering he was married to someone else before he was murdered.

Diane Peebles, 61, from Edinburgh, managed to escape her life in Sri Lanka after spending most of her life savings on her former husband. Diane wed hotel worker Priyanjana De Zoysa after meeting him on holiday when she was 53 and he was just 20, but says she has been left with "nothing". She is now trying to get her assets returned to her with the help of a Scottish lawyer, according to the Daily Record. The pensioner was horrified to discover her husband, 33 years her junior, was also married to an 18-year-old local girl after splurging her savings on a house in Sri Lanka. At the time she had been told it was difficult for a foreigner to own a house in Sri Lanka, so had put the property in her husband’s name. In addition to the home, she spent £31,000 on a Toyota Hiace people carrier for Priyanjana to use as a taxi. She also bought furniture and gifts for his family and paid for most of their food and fuel while she lived next door to them. She said: “My two brothers-in-law and their wives and children are living in my home now rent-free. They don’t deserve to live there. “That house was built on the work I put into my career over many years and I have nothing to show for it. That can’t be right.”