AN Oldham man told how his new bride gave him a wedding night surprise - by telling him she had four other husbands.
Emily Horne, 30, turned to Ashley Baker, 25, and revealed their marriage was a sham hours after the pair tied the knot in Chadderton.
The newlyweds were on a train travelling to Scotland for their honeymoon when she took out newspaper cuttings detailing her extraordinary history.
She told Mr Baker that their marriage was ‘illegal’ because she had been married four times previously and had not had any of the marriages cancelled. Only her first marriage was legal. She also told him that she had been jailed for six months for bigamy in 2004.
Glamour
Horne, a former glamour model and adult movie star, pleaded guilty to bigamy at Manchester Crown Court and could now face prison again.
Speaking to the M.E.N. MrBaker, a salesman who lives in Hathershaw with his parents, said: “I was in love with the girl but she played me for a fool.”
Mr Baker met Horne at a Rochdale massage parlour in May 2007. He said that they exchanged numbers, met for a drink and then she moved in with him.
He said: “She told me she had womb cancer and that she was really ill. I believed her. We decided to get married.”
The pair tied the knot at a Chadderton register office dressed in jeans and tee shirts as they did not have enough time to buy a dress and a suit.
Celebrated
They celebrated with an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in Oldham town centre and were on a train when she dropped the bombshell.
“She told me she’d been to prison and took out the newspaper cuttings,” he said. “She said the marriage was real in her heart and that that was all that mattered.”
Despite the revelations the pair continued to live together and that Christmas Mr Baker had Emily’s name tattooed onto his neck.
“I’m going to have to get that covered up,” he said.
After a stormy 10-month relationship, the pair split and Horne moved to her hometown of York.
Horne’s bigamy came to the attention of the police after she made a false assault allegation against her ‘husband’.
“It was nonsense,” said Mr Baker. “She then told the police about her bigamy because she knew I would.”
Horne will now be sentenced on July 27.
Mr Baker said he was ‘relieved’. He added: “I’m now moving on with my life and have a new girlfriend.”
Married
Horne married for the first time at the age of 18 in 1996.
She lost touch with soldier husband Paul Rigby as he was posted abroad. He tried to get back in touch but eventually stopped looking for her.
The M.E.N. understands he sent divorce papers to her cell when she was in prison for bigamy in 2004 but they were never completed.
While still married to Mr Rigby, Horne married Sean Cunningham in Leeds in 1999 and then Chris Barratt in Rotherham the following year.
West Yorkshire police were alerted about her two unlawful unions and she was cautioned for two offences of bigamy in August 2001.
By 2002 she had left Mr Barratt and met her fourth husband, James Matthews, on a train.
Within a month she had moved into his Ipswich home and the pair also married. However, it only lasted three months.
She was arrested in January 2003 and jailed for six months in 2004.
Predatory
At that case a psychiatric report flagged a personality disorder that made Horne alternate between periods of excitement and depression.
The judge added that she had been treated ‘generously’ by the Yorkshire police when initially cautioned. He added: “You are an attractive young woman and you might be described as a very predatory female.”
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The pair tied the knot at a Chadderton register office dressed in jeans and tee shirts as they did not have enough time to buy a dress and a suit.
Celebrated
They celebrated with an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in Oldham town centre and were on a train when she dropped the bombshell
I am showing my misses this article as it shows you can have a cheap wedding. Mine is costing me a arm and a leg
Shameless-Eat your heart out. There are worse things I suppose. Stupid people-thats nearly all concerned.
Man Eater at large!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'They celebrated with an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in Oldham town centre and were on a train when she dropped the bombshell.'...........'Despite the revelations the pair continued to live together and that Christmas Mr Baker had Emily’s name tattooed onto his neck.'
Classy couple!!
What a freak! Mind you, HE must be nuts, for getting her name tattooed on his neck AFTER finding out his "marriage" was invalid and that she was a bigamist. And he STILL stayed with her for 10 months?
The pair of them sound like nutters!
Love it! Met in a Rochdale massage parlour, having her name tattoed on his neck, an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet for the reception etc etc. I think they're made for each other.
Emily, please please marry me next, I think you are so beautiful and I have pots of money!
They could have had cup-a soup instead - IN A BOWL!
"they celebrated at an all you can eat buffet"
"he met her in a Rochdale massage parlour"
"they went for a drink and she moved in with him"
I'm sorry, I know it's not meant to be but this is the funniest thing I have read in ages! I shall be sending you a bill M.E.N for the cleaning ofsoup from my laptop!!
I am only thankful that this story is not (yet.) covered by one of the national newspapers as yet once more it would show up the “Shameless” culture that living in the North is allied with.
The story reads like a farce, envisage the introduction to the idiots friends and family when enlightening them that his intended wife had just completed her stint at the massage parlour where they had loving met some weeks previous!
His wife to-be, a former glamour model for Millets catalogue pushed the boat out with her elegant bridal outfit of jeans and tee shirt, can we only be grateful she didn’t wear one of her day job outfits. To round of the blissful day the happy couple, joined by their nearest friends and loved ones celebrated with an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in Oldham, unbelievable.
The only saving grace is that they didn’t have any children together.
I do hope Mr Bakers new girlfriend understands about his expression of fidelity to his former wife or maybe he has trawled the massage parlours of the North West looking for someone called “Emily”
One can only despair……..
Having more than one spouse in bigamy. If I had more then one spouse I think it would be big of me as well. I heard that having just the one spouse is called monotony or mahogany or something.
Has she already got the Butcher and the Candlestick-Maker ? or did she want to manage her own 5-a-side team ?
Whats the punishment for bigamy !!!
Two motherinlaws.
Scary.
This is Paul Calf script surely. Joolie! Is the guy with the tatoo on his neck a citeh fan too, like our beloved Paul?
So they met in a massage parlour, she was an ex-porn star, they got married in denim and tee-shirt and had a chineses all you can eat buffet for the wedding breakfast. You couldn't make it up. And the say romance is dead!
Wish my missus would settle for a jeans n t-shirt ceramony and an all you can eat chineese buffet..! Could save 15k.........!!!
I THOUGHT SHE HAD A SCREW LOOSE,BUT HIM?
HOW CAN ANYONE THINK THEY ARE GETTING THE REAL DEAL WHEN THEY TURN UP TO GET MARRIED IN A T SHIRT.
COME IN NUMBER 5 YOUR TIME IS UP
Best story Ive heard in ages, you couldn't make it up ;)
Can't stop laughing long enough to comment. Hilarious, even more so that he provided photos !!!!!!!!!
....when did he first get suspicious...I must admit...I didn't see it coming?
"I’m now moving on with my life and have a new girlfriend."
Does she too work at 'Dreams'?
cant beleive you turned up for your wedding in a henleys t-shirt! that is sad. you turned up smarter for your MEN photo! hilarious story!
Jeans ,T shirts followed by Gobble and Go.What will it be next time?Shorts ,vest and Greggs sausage rolls all round.At least she didnt con them into a big wedding,so shes not all bad!
What's the address of the Chinese all you can eat in Oldham
Ode To The Happy Couple.
When their eyes met it was like they had found the holy grail.
Who would have thought love could blossom at a massage parlour in Rochdale.
Chime, chime went the sound of wedding bells and it was heavenly.
He looked majestic in his stone-washed jeans, trainers and Henley.
On leaving the banquet she dropped the bomb-shell that left him on the floor.
When she announced that she had more husbands than Zsa Zsa Gabor.
At first he thought 'oh what the heck.'
But then the realisation hit him how he was gonna get rid of that tattoo on his neck.
The moral of this story should be made with some force.
Always remember to get a divorce.
Please, please, post this.