Boyfriend Tells How He Dumped 'Britain's Most Notorious Bigamist' When She Cheated

By Abdul Rafay in Relationships On 8th November 2022
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After learning that she was cheating on him despite accepting her five husbands, the ex-boyfriend of Britain's most known bigamist dumped her.

Before ending their relationship after learning Emily Horne, 43, was having an affair, Wayne Harper dated her for 18 months.

At the time, Horne had already been married to five men. Mr. Harper promised to support his lover if she stayed true to him.

Following the end of their relationship, Horne married two more men, making her the most infamous bigamist in British history with seven husbands.

When they were both patients at the same hospital, Mr. Harper, who is from the West Midlands, met Horne. He had a cycling accident, and she was recovering from minor surgery.

Mr. Harper accused Horne of cheating on him after they had been dating for a year and a half, and they broke up.

'I split up with her, it was my doing because I found out she was cheating on me,' the bachelor told The Sun.

'I was only with her for 18 months and it was not a happy ending. I have nothing left of her in my life, no pictures, nothing.'

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Soon after being released from the hospital, Horne moved in with Mr. Harper and his family after informing them that she had nowhere else to go.

Dennis Harper, Mr. Harper's father, claimed that she lived with them for around six months.

'They were together for a year or more but my son ended the relationship before the s*** hit the fan and he found her going with other blokes,' he told the news site. 

Mr. Harper had earlier declared that Horne deserved a second shot and that he would stand by her if she was sentenced to prison for bigamy.

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The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands, a 2009 Channel 4 documentary, detailed Horne's multiple marriages.

Soon after Horne wed her first husband, Paul Rigby, in 1996 when she was 18 years old, her web of lies began.

After a short breakup, she married Sean Cunningham in 1999 at the Leeds Register Office under the name Emily Lecont.

After a few months, their relationship came to an end, and she moved on to be with his friend Simon Thorpe, the man who had given her away at her wedding to Mr. Cunningham.

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She married Chris Barrett at the Leeds Register Office while Horne and Thorpe were still engaged. Chris Barrett is a 21-year-old website designer.

She once more went as Emily Horne, but this time she identified herself as an account handler whose father was a former Army major.

She immediately got proposed through text message to James Matthews, 34, whom she had met on a train where he worked as a conductor, and they were married four weeks later.

She was later reported to West Yorkshire Police and given a warning for two bigamy offenses in August 2001.

At this point, Horne began working as a glamour model and began appearing in X-rated movies.

Horne moved in with one of Mr. Matthews' friends after four months, and when she didn't come back, he reported her missing to the police. In 2004, she was sentenced to six months in prison for bigamy.

She married Rochdale salesman Ashley Baker, 25, in May 2007 after meeting him while working at a massage parlor.

He remained by her side for an additional 10 months despite her confession on their honeymoon that he was her fifth husband after she lied and said she had cancer.

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Stuart Allen, an IT worker from Burnley, fell "in love" with the brunette who introduced herself as Max when she next met him.

She accepted his proposal of marriage, but in 2010, when she traveled to see her father for a few days, he discovered she had actually gone to the US to wed policeman Fred Miller, whom she had met online.

After only a few days of marriage bliss with her sixth husband, Horne returned to England to live on benefits in Wareham, Dorset.

After meeting him on a dating service, she wed Craig Hadwin, her seventh husband, in a ceremony in Scotland in 2011.

She then attempted to obtain prescription medicines using his identity in order to fuel her sedative and painkiller addiction.

She attempted to trick doctors into prescribing her sleeping drugs by dressing up as Mr. Hadwin, a Navy employee stationed at RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset.