I’ve heard of women complaining when their husband’s look at another woman, but looking at your own wife’s face as grounds for divorce? Surely that’s taking the Michael?

A 50 year old Saudi woman, married for 30 years, would say different. She wants a divorce from her husband after the evil swine looked at her face. Some men are just pigs.

Apparently the man had lived with his wife for the last 30 years of their marriage, and had never even set eyes on her face. I wonder what attracted him to her in the first place? His wife was a follower of the tradition from her village, which is near Khamis Mushayt, that dictates that all women keep their faces veiled at all times, even in the presence of their husbands.

Last month, the poor chap at the centre of this divorce claim, decided he wanted to see who he’d been married to for the last third of a Century and took a peek under his wife’s veil while she slept. What a monster. Sadly he was a little too obvious with his efforts and woke up his wife, who now demands a divorce for his cruel, heartless behaviour.

The woman told a Saudi newspaper:

After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake.

Despite his efforts to apologise, she wants a divorce. Quite right too, after he’d looked at her face whatever next? Touching her knee, leaving the toilet seat up, sneezing? Who knows where his loutish behaviour will end. Best she leaves him now before he gets out of control.

Clive Bellmore