The Delaney Liaison

A late-night meeting provokes marital concern

The Delaney marriage was widely regarded, literally speaking, as a joke. One only needed to open Private Eye or The Guardian to find cruel sketches of the judge and his wife scrawled in red and black ink across the political pages. The Hon. Mr Justice Abel Delaney was often depicted (sans robe) cavorting with a pretty blonde while Deborah Delaney sat on a lilypad, green, glum, and seething.