SERIAL bride Lynda Selvam has swopped her £850,000 mansion in Preston for a prison cell.

The four-times married 44-year-old went a wedding too far when she married her last husband, Dr Karrupiah Selvam, who used to work at the Royal Preston Hospital.

For the good looking blonde was still married to her third husband.

Selvam used her decree absolute from her second marriage to dupe a registrar into believing she could marry again.

The mother of two was jailed for 90 days by District Judge Paul Firth sitting at Blackpool Magistrates Court. Selvam, a £45,000 a year pharmaceuticals representative, admitted bigamy.

As she was taken to the cells, dressed in an expensive, full length cashmere coat with Burberry and Louis Vuitton accessories, her children wept in the public gallery.

The court heard about Selvam's incredible marriage-go-round after she left her family council house home in Kendal, Cumbria, to become the first of her family to go to university.

She married Allan Bargh - the father of her son and daughter - and together they built up a property portfolio in Cumbria and a village in Southern Spain.

They divorced and in August 2000 Selvam married Paul Anthony, a Kendal based solicitor with a house overlooking Lake Winderemere, who had dealt with her divorce case.

She went on to meet and fall in love with a man called Christopher Scholler. They "married" in a register office in Gibraltar in April 2001 even though she had not been granted her decree absolute from her previous marriage. When that was granted she married Scholler again four months later at Kendal, Cumbria.

Just four weeks after that ceremony she met NHS doctor Dr Selvam, who left the Preston hospital in 2001.

Mr Cartwright said: "She presented herself to the doctor as a single mother of two. She was besotted by him and an intense relationship developed in which Dr Selvam wanted to marry her.

"She even explained away the presence of a man called Chris - Christopher Scholler - in her home as a house guest and mentor to her son Martin."

The marriage to Dr Selvam in April 2002 was also in Gibraltar. She used the decree absolute papers from her marriage to Paul Anthony to convince a registrar she was free to take her vows.

The couple moved into a magnificent home in Durton Lane, Broughton, where its sweeping driveways were occupied by top-of-the-range cars and boats.

A neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: "They seemed pretty normal to me. I heard they had split, and then just like that they were gone.

"I think the house is empty now, we've seen builders comind and going."

The court was told that when that marriage fell apart this year Dr Selvam had been going through papers which revealed to him that she had married him bigamously. He went to the police and reported this to them.

Lynda Selvam - she still uses the surname - was arrested and in an interview told officers that each of her marriages had been physically consummated.

Her lawyer Greg Earnshaw told the court: "Dr Selvam said he loved her and she was in love with him. She did not want to lose the doctor and accepted his proposal of marriage. Her belief is that Dr Selvam knew she was still married to Mr Scholler. This offence happened at a difficult time in her life and one of her most weak moments.

"This was no immigration scam. The doctor was entitled to be in the UK and indeed still works in the NHS.

"Neither was it for financial gain as my client owns property in Kendal where she is now living and has an interest in Spanish property bought by her first husband."

Jailing her Judge Firth said: "This sort of deception is unique and serious. It attacks the integrity of marriage. You have been married several times and are an intelligent woman who knows what the laws of marriage are."

Outside the court before she was sentenced Selvam said: "That doctor has not heard the last of me. There is another side to this."