A supermarket worker who took advantage of the Leap Year to propose to her boyfriend on February 29 is back on the shelf.

Janice Wesson used the public address system at Asda in Thurmaston to ask her boyfriend, Ant Needham, to marry her.

Holding a bouquet of flowers, she went down on bended knee in front of cheering staff and customers at the store.

Ant, 49, who had been with Janice, 42, for 10 weeks after meeting her on a blind date, said "yes", and the happy couple were featured in the Leicester Mercury.

But two weeks on, she said he sent a text telling her to collect her belongings from his house.

Devastated Janice, who is now back at her parents' house in Braunstone, is so devastated Asda bosses have told her to take time off work while she gets over her heartbreak.

She said: "I was dumped by text on March 13 and it's just devastated me. Work has told me not to come back in until I've sorted myself out because I kept breaking down.

"Ant and I were setting up home together. He told me he loved me. I'm a broken woman."

Janice said Ant had not been speaking to her the weekend before his text message.

The couple met on a blind date. Janice works with Ant's brother's wife. She said: "I met my friend's husband and he was really great, so I asked her if he had a brother and she said yes.

"Ant and I had a blind date and after a couple of weeks I had his name tattooed on my arm."

Comment: Oh-oh.


Following the engagement, Ant, from Queniborough, told the Mercury: "I had no idea Janice was planning to do what she did, and it came as a complete shock.

"At first, when the announcement was made, I couldn't make out what was said.

"It's taken a few days for it all to be taken in but I'm really happy. It's been a real whirlwind romance but I know she is the one for me."

When contacted by the Leicester Mercury yesterday about the engagement, he refused to comment.