LAWYERS who successfully represented a former teacher against her politician ex-husband have said yesterday that legal aid cuts would have meant their client was unable to obtain justice.

The family court found last week that Matthew Kyeremeh, a councillor on Croydon Borough Council, “opportunistically and fraudulently” deprived his mentally ill ex-wife Angela of assets she might have been awarded in a divorce court.

Ms Kyeremeh accused Mr Kyeremeh of “fleecing her of assets” when she was mentally ill and left her “homeless and destitute” and “living rough in a park.”