THE WIFE of a Hampshire businessman, who suspected her husband of infidelity used technology to get her own back.

Instead of confronting Paul Evans, his wife Tracey switched on his computer and sent an e-mail to 50 of his most important business contacts.

The confessional message headed: Time to "Fess Up!" - left her at 7.59am and within minutes was flashing up on screens around the world. By now, an estimated 100,000 people may already have seen the e-mail.

It reads as though it is Mr Evans confessing an act of infidelity.

The e-mail says: "I, Paul Owen Evans, am a snivelling, cheating, lying arrogant little piece of xxxx."

It continues: "No, that's not right - I'm worse than that: I'm a despicable, deceitful, dodgy, xxxxxxxx who doesn't reserve this attitude just for my wife."

Mr Evans, 34, who runs Good Evans and Co, a public relations company in Ringwood, learned about the e-mail while he was in Barcelona in his role as acting head of PR for Spanish car company SEAT.

The first the father-of-two knew about it was when his mobile phone was jammed with calls from friends and associates who received the e-mail.

At the family home in Verwood, Dorset, Mrs Evans, a company secretary admitted sending the e-mail. She told reporters that it was done to upset her husband. She declined to say anything more "for the sake of the children."

When asked if this was the e-mail of a cheated wife penned to embarrass an unfaithful husband, she agreed that was the case.

Last night, Welsh-born Mr Evans, known as Taff, was not answering his mobile phone or taking calls at the office.