Divorce letter was mistake
A happily married couple were stunned to receive a solicitor's letter saying their divorce had been finalised.
John Kitteridge, 65, and wife Joan have been married for 36 years, reports the Sheffield Star.
Joan, 59, who burst into tears when she read the letter said: "I couldn't believe what I was reading. I knew deep down it couldn't be true but it was still such a shock.
"We've had our ups and downs like any couple! But we'd never get divorced."
Security guard John had been working nights and was in bed when the post arrived.
He said: "If it had been an old lady or an elderly man who had received it they could have suffered a heart attack. How does a mistake like that even happen?
"We dealt with the same solicitors three years ago on an unrelated legal matter, but everything should be on computers these days so it must have shown up that we weren't getting a divorce."
Sheffield-based Best Solicitors apologised and said the mistake had been made after a standard template letter was sent to the Kitteridges.
They said details inside the letter, referring to divorce, should have been changed but had been missed.
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