‘I am married to a good and decent man’

DARINA Allen stood by her beleaguered husband yesterday, declaring that she still loved him despite his conviction for the possession of child pornography.

“I’ve been married to Tim for 32 years and I absolutely still love him. I am married to a good and decent and honourable man. You can love the sinner without loving the sin,” Mrs Allen said.

Speaking from the celebrity couple’s world-famous cookery school in Ballymaloe, where she and her husband Tim were working yesterday, Mrs Allen admitted she and her family had gone through months of trauma.