WIFE LOGS ON TO FB TO DISCOVER HER HUSBAND HAD MARRIED ANOTHER WOMAN

A bigamist was caught by his wife after she saw a
photograph of him grinning with his new Gambian
teenage bride on Facebook. Nicolette Smith was
further devastated when she noticed Stephen Smith,
52, had married Awa Jobarteh, 19, (pictured above)
at the same African register office they tied the knot
at 7 years earlier. Ms Smith then called the police,
but incredibly her cheating former partner has
avoided jail and claimed he was the victim.
Continue… T he factory worker had been abandoned
by his new young bride two days after arriving back
in the UK, and she has never been traced. Nicolette
(pictured above right) met her husband in 2001, after
his first divorce, but has been left in financial ruin
after their marriage breakdown. She was declared
bankrupt when Smith failed to pay the mortgage and
is still waiting for her husband to sign divorce papers,
Teesside Crown Court was told. The 52-year-old was
prosecuted for bigamy after he admitted ‘hastily’
rushing down the aisle with his third wife because he
was in love. The court heard that the day before the
wedding Smith signed a petition for divorce from his
second wife, which carried a signature purporting to
be by Nicolette – but it was faked. Nicolette admitted
she was disappointed that he was given a six-month
prison sentence suspended for two years with 150
hours’ unpaid work. ‘I feel as though he’s got away
with this and has been portrayed as some kind of
victim himself after all that he’s put me through.
He
knew if he responded to my divorce petition, he’d give
away where he’d been hiding,’ she said.
Discussing
the way he was dumped by his new bride she told The
Sun: ‘She looked so young in the pictures and he
looked a little pathetic. I don’t know what else he
could have expected’. Smith claimed he was a
wronged victim, duped and abandoned by his latest
spouse after he met her in Gambia, married her on
November 7, 2012 and brought her to the UK.
Smith
married his second wife in December 2005. The
marriage broke down two years later. He went
missing and her solicitors received no reply in efforts
to start divorce proceedings. She then reported him
to the police when she found out that he’d remarried.
Smith admitted a charge of bigamy, his first crime
but said he had thought he was divorced and that his
divorce was ‘automatic’.