Dr Anthony McGrath, 34, (pictured in an undated photo) had a string of affairs, sometimes while posing as an Irish 007
A Maserati-driving surgeon jailed for a £180,000 burglary scam has been revealed as a 007 wannabee who called himself 'Paddy Bond' as he had a string of affairs behind his GP wife's back.
Dr Anthony McGrath, 34, even pursued one woman when he and his wife Anne Marie, 44, were trying for a baby - and he only told her when the issue came up in court, prompting her to burst into tears.
McGrath, who was born in Ireland, admitted to not knowing the number of women he had cheated with and tried to excuse his betrayal by suggesting he was 'starved of love' at home, The Sun reported.
The love rat, who was jailed for 8 years yesterday afternoon after being found guilty of insurance and mortgage fraud, swapped 13,500 texts with one mistress over just 12 months between 2013 and 2014.
McGrath boasted about his sexual prowess to friends, saying he was excited about 'batting the otter' - a bizarre reference to sex.
His wife had begun to suspect adultery, and when he announced he was going to a conference in Swansea on February 14, 2014, she replied: 'What is the exact name of the course and the location so I can look it up and verify that you are genuinely up a course rather than heading off on some Valentine bonk with another.'
The texts also throw light on the couple's dire financial situation, and how he spoke about faking a break-in. His wife initially faced the same charges and him but was cleared on all accounts.
In 2015, the couple's financial situation was so bad Mrs McGrath accused her husband of stealing her iPad from an open car in 2015.
'You have tried to fake a robbery,' she messaged.
McGrath asked her to call the police but she said: 'If you wish to manufacture a robbery you do so, but you don't lie to me.
'You can lie all you want to the police but I want no part in it.
'If you bring the police to the house I'll say I believe it was you unless you tell me the truth and return the iPad.'
When McGrath told her to tell police in case the burglar returned she replied: 'No second hit unless you are planning a massive burglary in all your finery.
'You want to generate an insurance scam. I will tell on you. I will tell. Tell-tale tit. Unless you return my iPad.'
McGrath and his GP wife Anne-Louise McGrath were in debt to the tune of thousands of pounds when the husband decided to make a fake burglary report to police. They are both seen in undated photos outside Luton Crown Court
The gadget was actually taken in a genuine raid on their £2,400-a-month rented cottage on the grounds of the Luton Hoo estate.
But in April that same year, McGrath made a fake report to police that their house had been burgled and valuable antiques stolen.
He claimed more than £180,000, saying property stolen from the cellar included expensive antiques and furniture, jewellery, silverware, artwork, Ming vases, oriental rugs and crystalware.
One item he claimed had been taken was a 19th century Rococo red marble fireplace worth £30,000.
Speaking today, Judge Barbara Mensah called this an 'arrogant' move.
'This is a very sorry tale of a very talented Mr McGrath. Through your talents, you rose to be a successful orthopaedic surgeon and fell, through greed and arrogance, to where you sit today.'
The judge said the fraudulent mortgage applications made by the consultant to secure three mortgages worth more than a million pounds on two properties demonstrated 'breath-taking brazenness' with the forged and false documents he had produced.
She said 'The mortgage frauds were well planned and sophisticated.'
'Your dishonesty knows no limits because, even after you gained financial assistance, you still needed more money and that led you to make a fraudulent claim for a burglary.
'Because of your arrogance, you didn't think an insurance company or the police would question a man of your standing,' she said.
McGrath wasn't in the dock to hear the number of years he must serve behind bars. Halfway through the sentencing, he shouted at the judge 'You suppressed the information. You have abused your power as a judge.'
McGrath said the jury had not heard the truth and went on: 'You talk to me as if I am a child. Shame on you.'
McGrath submitted fake photos of items he claimed to have owned. This 19th century Rococo red marble fireplace worth £30,000 (left) had actually been removed from the house years earlier. He had never owned this clock, but found the photo elsewhere
Two earrings (left) and a ring (right) that McGrath claimed to have owned when he submitted the fake insurance claim. As with the other objects, he had found the photos elsewhere
He then told Judge Mensah 'You are an abusive, racist and terrible person. Shame on you for suppressing the truth.'
He was led downstairs to the cells while the judge completed the sentencing.
The court heard a confiscation hearing will now be heard to seize the assets of McGrath.
The £1.1million home he bought through his fraudulent mortgage applications has been found to have structural faults, meaning it can't be sold.
The judge was told that McGrath hadn't paid a penny of his mortgage in repayments on the home.
Before sentence was passed today, the court was told that McGrath will never be able to practice again and his career is now ruined.
McGrath, who was raised in a Georgian manor house, hoped the scam would help him raise the funds he needed to renovate the couple's new £1.1 million home they had bought in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
But as police investigated the 'break-in' at the rented cottage called The Garden Bothy in the grounds of Luton Hoo, a former Bedfordshire stately home where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh had stayed during their honeymoon, they became suspicious.
They discovered the extent of the consultant's debts and, and as they looked closer into his financial affairs, found he had made a series of false claims about his and Mrs McGrath's earnings in respect of three mortgage applications.
At the end of a four month trial at Luton crown court, which is reckoned to have cost the taxpayer more than half a million pounds, McGrath was found guilty of four counts of an insurance scam fraud, perverting the course of public justice, and three charges of mortgage fraud.
Mrs McGrath, 44, was cleared by the jury of being involved in the three mortgage frauds with her husband and also of retaining items of jewellery her husband was claiming for and selling at auctioneers Bonhams a pair of earrings.
She had told the court that with young children to care for and an ailing mother, so had left much of the family's financial affairs to her husband.
The wife said she knew nothing about the fraudulent mortgage applications made by her husband.
And she said he had assured her that the jewellery she had wanted to sell to raise funds was not part of any insurance claim he had made.
In the months leading up to the fictitious burglary in April of 2015, the Irish couple with four children aged between 4 and 14 were desperately trying to stay financially afloat.
They earned good salaries. She was a respected GP and he was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore earning around £84,000 a year.
But the family's outgoings were huge.
They had to pay £2,400 a month to rent The Garden Bothy, built in the 1800s and once used in an episode of Inspector Morse.
Then, they had mortgage repayments of £2,400 for their new seven bedroom detached home in leafy Clarence Road, St Albans, which they couldn't even live in because of costly refurbishment work that was being carried out.
Other loans meant their finances were in a precarious state.
This was the cottage where the couple lived called The Garden Bothy in the grounds of Luton Hoo, a former Bedfordshire stately home
This is the £1.1 million home in St Albans the couple had bought and were trying to raise money to renovate
McGrath lived lived in a 200-year-old Georgian stately home called Somerville House in Co Meath, bought by his late father Joseph McGrath who was also an orthopaedic surgeon
Worries about school fees for their children and bank cards being declined at supermarket tills were placing a heavy strain on the couple's relationship.
Before the scam, the surgeon had been trying to raise funds by selling off antiques.
He had even told the owner of one antique business that he was helping to fund a child refuge in Syria, saying he had already transferred £74,000, but investigations revealed no money had been sent.
Trial prosecutor Charlene Sumnall told the jury of three women and nine men at Luton Crown
