ANOTHER wife of the Manchester synagogue terrorist said the attacker “raped” her and lied about being married with a child.
The woman, whose identity is being protected, told how Jihad Al-Shamie abused her mentally and sexually after they first met on Muslim dating app Muzz.
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She had converted to Islam in 2012, ten years before meeting Al-Shamie.
The woman became trapped in a volatile cycle in which he would flip between being “vile” and then “nice” to draw her back in to their on-and-off relationship.
Eventually, Al-Shamie told the woman he was married and had a son, but confessed to keeping them secret.
In text messages seen by the M.E.N, he wrote: “I didn’t tell u because I really like you and wanted u to be my 2nd wife.”
But Al-Shamie told her men can have four wives in Islamic culture and that his first wife “accepts” it.
Within a month of entering into a relationship with him, the pair married in January 2022.
The woman said their Islamic ceremony took place over a video call because of Covid restrictions.
But the marriage was soon filled with coercive and controlling behaviour.
She claimed Al-Shamie raped her, but she did not report it to police.
The attacker’s abuse is laid out in Facebook messages between the couple.
He tells her: “Good luck getting any guy to deal with your rubbish.”
And: “You’re not worth it and I can do better – don’t need someone with your baggage and mental issues.”
To try and win her back, Al-Shamie would promise grand gestures, such as buying a property close to where she lived, although these never came into fruition.
The woman told M.E.N she thought she loved him at the beginning of their partnership.
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“He was caring and understanding and didn’t judge my kids for their needs,” she said.
“He would say ‘I love you, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that’. He was controlling and abusive.
“He did rape me multiple times, but to us we just fulfil what our husband’s say.
“He was one of them where you have got to do it there and then.”
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She categorized their relationship as “his way or no way” and described him as constantly being “pushy” – telling her wives had to “obey” their husbands.
The Sun previously reported how Al-Shamie was a teenage drop-out who smoked weed and was obsessed with violent video games.
A former friend told The Sun on Sunday that killer Al-Shamie would smoke around 2g of strong skunk a day when he was a teen and frequently felt the wrath of his parents.
His obsession led him to dropping out of Liverpool John Moores University a year into his English, media and cultural studies degree course in 2011.
Meanwhile neighbours said he would spend his time lifting weights in his garage or wander around in his pyjamas and flip flops.
The woman also reflected this portrayal in her tales of Al-Shamie, who she claimed was always “between jobs” and “living with his parents”.
After their relationship ended, the last time Al-Shamie contacted her was April earlier this year, but she ignored him.
The woman also recalled her horror when she discovered he had committed the Manchester synagogue terror attack.
“My first thought was just ‘why’. He would never preach anything. The only thing he would do was pray,” she said.
“He never showed me, or said anything about, terrorism, or joining anything. It was all about the mosque and praying.”
This comes as another wife of Al-Shamie also came forward with her story after meeting him on the same Muslim dating app.
Born in Syria, Al-Shamie was granted British citizenship in 2006 when he was around 16, having entered the UK as a young child.
The 35-year-old was on police bail accused of rape when he carried out the car and knife terror attack in Manchester on October 2.
He claimed to be a devout father but cheated on his wife and married a second woman days after meeting her, The Telegraph reported.
The newspaper said that he met a young woman from Manchester after the Covid lockdown.
It’s believed that he moved in with the woman and her family in May 2022 and they married in an Islamic ceremony.
But he was unfaithful and used a dating app to meet several other women.
Al-Shamie’s first marriage reportedly fell apart six months ago after he married a second woman – but it is not known if this was legal.
Elizabeth Davis, 46, is said to have married the killer in secret and only told her family about him only after the synagogue attack.
A source told The Sun on Sunday: “Liz converted to Islam four years ago.
“Her conversion caused tensions with her family, they say she became a totally different person after that.
“She stopped communicating with relatives and friends.
“It was like she had been brainwashed.
“The family only found out that she had got married to Al-Shamie after the synagogue attack on Thursday.
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“The family are horrified that she has been involved with someone like that.
“It’s possible she got married to him in an Islamic law ceremony.”
Another woman said she was just 18 when she dated Al-Shamie, who she said lied to her about his age.
He told her he was in his mid-twenties and reportedly encouraged her to watch “extreme videos”.
During their four-month relationship, she said he hit her and ordered her to dress more conservatively.
She even said he referenced possibly wanting to join the Islamic State.
She said he stalked her and told her about his rape fantasises.
The Times reported that Al-Shamie used fake name on his dating app accounts but kept getting banned because of his “speech and what he was sending”.
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