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'Vile synagogue attack monster married me... but lied about having family'
Scottish Daily Express
|October 08, 2025
A MUM has told of her relationship with terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, revealing the synagogue monster married her before revealing he already had a wife and child.
The hate-filled murderer wed the woman in an Islamic ceremony after telling her they could only be together if they were man and wife.
But Al-Shamie then repeatedly pleaded for her forgiveness — after admitting that he already had a wife and a child in Manchester.
The woman told how, at first, she was in love. But Al-Shamie went on to abuse her both mentally and sexually — constantly lying to her to keep his secret safe.
She said: “He was nice, then he was vile. It was his way or no way.”
The woman spoke out as it emerged Al-Shamie had relationships with different women — and possibly more marriages.
He sent numerous pleading messages to her over a number of years. In one, which he sent after he admitted he was already married, he said: “Look I’m gonna be honest with you. I do have a wife and a baby son at home. I didn’t tell u because I really liked you and wanted u to be my 2nd wife but I didn’t know how u wud react.”
In another, he told her: “In Islam a man can have up to four wives but these days most women don’t accept it, but I shouldn’t have lied. It was wrong of me.”
He went on: “My first wife accepts and knows about us. Please forgive me for the lies.”
Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by armed police after launching a knife and car attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue last Thursday, killing two people and injuring four more.
This story is from the October 08, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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