

A 25-year-old British woman who paid to help her Nigerian boyfriend stay in the country was devastated and furious when she found out through Facebook that he’d been cheating on her for months.Care home worker, Beth Coombs from Southsea, was matched with personal trainer Chris Chikadibia Esionwu, 29, on Tinder dating app, at Christmas in 2015.
The couple’s first date was a trip to Pets at Home, as Beth was keen to buy a companion for her pet rat.
After that they met up two or three times a week and were constantly texting. When Beth was down with flu, she told how Chris stayed with her for a week to look after her.
“I thought he was a keeper,” she said.
In April Beth was stunned when the Home Office
detained Chris while they investigated his visa.
She explained: “He told me he had a student visa and was completely free to live in the UK.
She explained: “He told me he had a student visa and was completely free to live in the UK.
“I believed him, and
was sure it was just a mix-up. But, in the meantime, he was being held in a
detention centre in Weymouth, nearly 100 miles away.
“I was distraught.
We’d only been together for a few months but already I’d imagined a future with
Chris.”
Terrified he’d be deported, Beth told how she
would drive to visit her boyfriend after work.
She admitted:
“While the Home
Office was investigating, the one thing Chris really needed was money. I took
him whatever cash I had spare, which was about £150, for him to buy odd bits
and bobs in the detention centre. There wasn’t much left once I’d paid my rent
and filled up my car with tank after tank of petrol for the journey.”
When he faced deportation she spent a fortune
driving to see him in a detention centre 100 miles away and
giving him whatever money she had to spare.
Months later lawyers ruled it wasn’t safe for Chris to return to Nigeria.
Months later lawyers ruled it wasn’t safe for Chris to return to Nigeria.
"He asked to
live with me and said he’d have to tell the Home Office that I would support
him financially. It was quite full on. We hadn’t talked about moving in
together yet. But I was sure that Chris was the man for me, so I agreed.
Whatever it took to get my boyfriend back.”
Chris was transferred to another detention centre near Heathrow
before being released in June.
"He phoned me
and asked me to come and collect him,” Beth recalled. “I was over the moon. We
stayed up all night talking, while Chris filled me in on every little detail of
what had happened. It was amazing to have him back."
But after four weeks, Beth said Chris’ behaviour
started to change. he started acting weirdly around her and refused to let her
put anything about him on Facebook, she became suspicious.
“He’d go out
unannounced, and any time I tried to take a selfie of us he banned me from
showing it to anyone else. It was a side of him I hadn’t seen before. Our sex
life became non-existent, as he would sleep all day when I was out at work then
go out as soon as I was home.”
One weekend, when Chris had mysteriously gone
away for a few days to Surrey, Beth noticed a girl liking all his Facebook
photos and when she contacted her she revealed Chris had been having a
relationship with her at the same time.
“My heart snapped in
two,” Beth recalled. "After all I’d done for him! I was furious. I kicked
him out then and there" she admitted.
“Chris had never mentioned
her, and I had a strange sick feeling in the pit of my stomach,” she
said.
"I sent this
girl a message and asked if she’d been seeing him. She replied saying yes,
since Christmas – the same time we’d got together. Over messages, we pieced
together his betrayal. He’d been having a break in his relationship with her
while he was down in Weymouth.
"Then, as soon
as he was released, he’d picked up right where they left off. She’d had no idea
he was living with me, or even that he had a girlfriend. I wasn’t angry with
her, as she’d been duped by Chris too. We ended up finishing our conversation
on good terms, and both of us agreed to dump him."
When Beth confronted him, she said Chris claimed
he’d kept the affair secret because he felt “guilty” that she’d done so much
for him. She ended the relationship.
"Losing Chris
was hard, but I’m glad I discovered the truth.”
Source: UK Sun
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