Letter: The amazing, disappearing wife

JOAN SMITH ('Share it with your local bobby', 8 August) has prompted me to air my own Mr and Mrs experience.

At one time our family car belonged to my husband's firm, which paid for his group membership of the AA. When my aunt died and left me an elderly and unreliable Mini I joined the organisation on my own behalf, making my husband an associate member. I signed the application form and the cheque was paid out of my personal account. The cards came back showing him as the member, myself the associate. A couple of years later he was urged to pay 'his' fee by direct debit in exchange for a free camera. As with most correspondence, he ignored it. I arranged the direct debit and signed all the papers because the money was still to come out of my account. But he received the camera.

E Everitt

Cambridge