BASSETERRE St. Kitts – SOME say love is at first sight, but, for a Scottish charity worker, he is now confused by the action of his Jamaican ‘runaway’ bride who abandoned him just 20 minutes after landing in the United Kingdom.
According to Mail Online.com, the victim, 57-year-old Johnny Gannon, spent a total of £5 000 in order to arrange a visa for his 24-year-old bride, Patrice Chambers, so they could live together in Perth, Scotland.
Thinking that their wonderful life together had begun, to elderly man’s surprise, as soon as Chambers arrived in Perth she sent her husband out to buy Pot Noodles, but when he returned she grabbed her bags and told him she was going.
“My relationship with her wasn’t something I’d done by mail order. I’ve known her for two years and it seemed very much like the real thing to me. She has used me and I feel humiliated.
I had a vision of happiness laid out. I feel like a bit of a fool,” the heartbroken husband said.
The online news entity stated that in the time span of 20 minutes of arriving through his front door, the Jamaican had already flagged down a car and caught a train. Gannon later realised she had also run up a £500 bill on his mobile phone.
As traumatised as he was, Gannon explained to the online news entity that he married Chambers in Jamaica early this year and believed that his new wife fled to Bristol to meet a Jamaican boyfriend with whom she had organised the scheme.
But although he was previously told by a friend that his legal wife had a boyfriend back in the UK, he continued the relationship based on the fact that she told him that the suspected lover was “in the past”.
“Of course I was pinching myself over how lucky I'd been to end up with such a beautiful young woman. But the relationship was getting better over time so I wasn't suspecting any kind of sting operation,” Gannon said.
The love-strangled husband has decided to report his once lover to police and plans to contact the UK Border Agency, but now wonders how he would break the news to his mother.
