Hold the front page. Tunisian man (28) who married wheelchair-bound pensioner (64) on their second meeting, might have had an ulterior motive.

/ Mike Buchanan

Words fail me. The start of the piece:

A wheelchair-bound pensioner who married a Tunisian toyboy 36 years her junior has spoken of her heartbreak after he left her after just a fortnight of married life in Britain.

Patricia Hancocks, 64, met Mondher Mezni, when he was 26 on an online dating website and believed at last she had met ‘the One’ – but now fears he ‘only married me for a visa’.

The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance and got engaged after just 19 days together, on Ms Hancocks’ second holiday to Tunisia to visit her toyboy.

 

Ms Hancocks has claimed that her husband, 36 years her junior, may have only married her for the visa she helped him secure

They married in north Africa in November 2012 in a lavish ceremony, which included the ceremonial slaughter of a sheep, and she paid for it by living on toast and butter.

After a brief honeymoon they spent eight months apart while the twice-married retired cleaner secured him a visa.

Mr Mezni, now 29, moved to her home in Leicester where he stayed at home to cook, clean and care for his new wife before he suddenly fled a fortnight later.

Being human, I guess we could all be victims of scams like this. The next time a 20-something lingerie model starts chatting me up in my local JD Wetherspoon public house, The Pilgrim’s Progress in Bedford – outstanding real ale at £2.29 per pint, 10% discount on Mondays – I shall be on my guard.

 

8 thoughts on “Hold the front page. Tunisian man (28) who married wheelchair-bound pensioner (64) on their second meeting, might have had an ulterior motive.”

  1. Hahaha,
    you might get a pleasurable fortnight with said gorgeous, lingerie model skipping around your house waving a feather duster, cleaning, cooking and looking after you out of it – well until she finds out you’re a man who has NO interest whatsoever in marriage.
    Are there many gorgeous lingerie models hanging around Bedford ?

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    • Thanks. Two weeks? Sounds perfect. You can’t walk around in Bedford without bumping into 20-something gorgeous lingerie models, mostly East Europeans.

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  3. I think you SHOULD be on your guard Mike.

    After too many at £2.29 (10% discount on Mondays or not), you might just THINK you’re talking to a 20 something lingerie model…

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  4. Er…..when there is this great a difference in age, there is usually also a great difference in wealth. However, what he saw in her can be summed up in two words.
    British Passport.

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  5. She paid for the ‘lavish’ wedding by living on toast and butter. Now we know what happened to the EU ‘Butter Mountain’ that we used to hear about.

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  6. ‘After a brief honeymoon they spent eight months apart while the twice-married retired cleaner secured him a visa.‘

    Twice married … and twice divorced? Retired? Two holidays in Tunisia? Who paid for those I wonder.

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