Thanks to Scaramouche
Dublin security sources fear foreign-born jihadis are targeting young women to marry in the Republic because once they have settled there they can travel freely to the UK.
Dozens of ‘sleeper’ jihadis may already be in Ireland after marrying. And 50 more are on the radar of police.
How Many Jihadis are Marrying Their Way Into the West?
That’s a question we should be asking in light of the fact that one of the London Bridge terrorists appears to have done just that:
Sounds to me like Irish authorities were more concerned about being accused of Islamophobia than they were about doing their job.
‘I’ll have to try to explain to our daughter why he committed this atrocity’: Asylum seeking jihadi’s British wife reveals she’s ‘deeply shocked, saddened and numbed’ by his actions
- Rachid Redouane married Charisse O’Leary in Ireland after an affair, her ex says
- Ms O’Leary made a Facebook appeal for help on getting him in to the UK
- Couple chose to wed in Dublin months after meeting despite her being British
- He want back to Morocco and she returned to UK – in 2015 they were in Dublin
- Ireland has reputation as a ‘backdoor’ to Britain because of its relaxed visa rules
- After they moved to UK he wanted her to convert to Islam and to wear a hijab
- Friends said she ‘hated’ him by the end and had ‘no idea’ he was planning attack
The ex-wife of one of the London Bridge terrorists has said she is ‘deeply shocked, saddened and numbed’ by his actions.
Charisse O’Leary, the estranged wife of Moroccan-born Rachid Redouane, spoke today for the first time since the atrocity in which eight died and 48 were injured.
In a statement, she said: ‘My thoughts and efforts now are with trying to bring up my daughter with the knowledge that someday I will have to try and explain to her why her father did what he did.’
O’Leary married Redouane – who has previously claimed to be both Libyan and Moroccan – after he failed to get asylum to live in the UK. They later had a daughter, who is now one year old.
Couple: Charisse O’Leary marries Rachid Redouane in Ireland in 2012 , months after they met, and in a country with a growing reputation as a ‘backdoor’ to Britain
Ms O’Leary released a statement saying she was thinking of all those murdered and injured and their families.
She revealed she had split from the killer six months ago and only saw him so he could spend time with their daughter.
She added: ‘I wish to make it absolutely clear, so there can be no doubt, I condemn his actions and do not support the beliefs he held that led to him committing this atrocity.’
Today it was revealed that Redouane was allowed to stay in Britain after he embarked on an affair with O’Leary and married her in Dublin months later.
Redouane was refused asylum in 2009, when he was using the name Rachid Elkhdar, yet managed to stay in Britain despite being arrested in Scotland attempting to travel to Northern Ireland by ferry on a fake passport.
Months after meeting Ms O’Leary in 2012, while she was in a nine-year relationship with an upholsterer, they flew to Dublin and married at a register office in the Irish capital.
Friends said Ms O’Leary, 38, eventually ‘hated’ her husband whom she accused of beating and bullying her after they moved in together.
They split up around nine months ago after they moved to her native east London and she refused to convert to Islam and would not let him impose his faith on their toddler daughter Amina.
Shortly after their wedding in Dublin, Rachid is said to have returned to Morocco while his 33-year-old wife went back to London
She visited him in north Africa and said on Facebook that Casablanca was one of her favourite place – but it appears he hid his true violent and controlling nature until he had secure the right to live in the UK through her.
Despite living apart the Irish authorities insisted their marriage was a genuine one and not to ‘secure residency in this jurisdiction’, a source told The Times.
But an inquiry has now been launched to establish if Redouane duped his wife and wed her for immigration reasons.
Redouane lived in Rathmines, an upmarket area of Dublin, before he moved to Britain with his wife around nine months ago
Dublin security sources fear foreign-born jihadis are targeting young women to marry in the Republic because once they have settled there they can travel freely to the UK.
Dozens of ‘sleeper’ jihadis may already be in Ireland after marrying. And 50 more are on the radar of police.
In 2014, he applied for an Irish visa through his marriage to an EU citizen and a year later, he was granted an EU card, allowing him to live in the UK – and commit mass murder.
Charisse O’Leary fell pregnant as soon as they moved to the Irish capital together in 2015, MailOnline can reveal.
Ms O’Leary’s ex-partner of nine years Phillip Nowles, 46, said Redouane began a relationship with his future wife while they were still together in 2012, according to The Times.
Within a few months they had split and she became engaged to him but chose to marry in Ireland.
He said she was an ‘outgoing girl, a great conversationalist who liked to have a drink’ but it was only after she married the jihadi that he tried to make her convert to Islam and ‘control’ her.
He told The Times: ‘She met him while we were together, I could see she had changed. She was unhappy with me in that last year.
‘They broke up this year, she was fed up with his controlling behaviour he wanted their girl to become like him. To dress in Muslim clothes and believe in his ways’.
Ms O’Leary was arrested in the aftermath of the attack but has been released without charge and had ‘no idea’ about his plans, friends say. She is in a safe house with her daughter Amina, one.
A friend of the killer’s estranged wife told The Sun Charisse had said: ‘He was always really selfish and I gave up so much for him. I was never going to convert and become a Muslim. There’s no way I was going to do that.
‘I just didn’t agree with what he wanted. He didn’t want Amina to eat pork or go to dance classes and I wasn’t having that.
‘He didn’t want her watching things on TV either in case it made her ‘gay’.’
Friends confirmed that Rachid and Charisse previously lived in Dagenham, east London before splitting up when Rachid became a ‘bit weird’ after they arrived in the UK.
One former colleague at an Essex care home said: ‘There’s no way she’d have been involved [in terror]. She hated him in the end.
‘He was a horrible person. She didn’t say what happened but it seemed to me like it was domestic violence.’
The carer added: ‘She smokes, she drinks. She wouldn’t have converted to Islam. She dressed normally, in Western clothes.’
Friends said she travelled to Ireland around three years ago after he moved to the Rathmines area in the south of the city when his visa ran out.
They said Redouane tried to convert her to Islam but she refused and they had a ‘volatile’ relationship. He returned to Britain about nine months ago.
In 2015 she asked for advice from fellow immigration applicants to keep the killer in Britain because he had a family in this country.
Charisse O’Leary gave details on social media of how she and her 30-year-old husband were trying to apply to extend his stay in the UK via the backdoor by making an application in Ireland – after she claimed he had previously been in the UK illegally.
In recent social media posts, his estranged wife had complained that Redouane had not been visiting their daughter enough and friends said they hoped he drowned swimming – she had moved to a housing unit for vulnerable mothers
Witnesses said Ms O’Leary shouted ‘don’t shoot’ as she was dragged out sobbing. She is said to have ‘hated’ her estranged husband
Members of a Facebook group called ‘SS RIGHTS, EEA FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, Family its a Human right!!’ discussed the process of sending forms back and gave advice on the documents to send to the Home Office.
On July 1, 2015, she wrote on the group that she was asking for advice on filling out an FP application form to stay in Britain.
The FP form is an application for a foreigner to stay in the UK if they have a family life in this country, with a partner, parent or dependent child or on the basis of your private life in the UK.
Writing as Charisse Ann O’leary she told how she was 22 weeks pregnant and arrived in Dublin on February 1, 2015.
She said: ‘Started on fp application form. Like a bag of nerves. If my husband was refused on the grounds of previous immigration history being in the UK illegally. Would I appeal it or do new application?’
In another comment she added: ‘We haven’t lied. We been here since 1st of February and i’m working full time since 12th of February. But now 22 weeks pregnant fell soon as arrived in Dublin. Really want to be home before baby arrives.’
An Irish security source described Redouane, who was not previously known to the security services, as having ‘extensive immigration history related to the UK’. The Home Office declined to comment last night and a number of important questions remained unanswered.
Today it emerged that he punched, slapped and kicked the mother of his child Charisse O’Leary and refused to let her out of their house if he caught her smoking or drinking alcohol.
Redouane, who was part of the barbaric trio who killed seven people on London Bridge and Borough Market, tried to get his wife to wear a hijab and eat halal food, but she refused saying she was a Western woman.
A friend of the Charisse told the Mirror she would try and arrange to meet up with the 38-year-old, but was regularly told she could not come.
‘It would either be, ‘he’s slapped me in the middle of the street today’ or ‘he’s kicked me’ or ‘he will not let me out the house’,’ she said.
‘She was scared, really scared. It was harsh domestic violence.’
Terrorists: Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba massacred seven people in a rampage which started on London Bridge on Saturday night
One of Gabriele Sciotto’s photographs showed the face of the dying terrorist, wearing an Arsenal football shirt and combat trousers, just a few metres in front of him
Police teams could be seen analysing the rental van which ploughed into pedestrians on Saturday evening
It was not clear when the jihadi first arrived in the UK, whether he was deported back to Morocco after his asylum application was rejected in 2009 and how he managed to slip back into the UK under a different name.
Miss O’Leary, who has a 20-month-old daughter Amina but split from Redouane about three months ago, could not be reached for comment last night. She was released without charge on Monday, 36 hours after being arrested in connection with the terror attacks which culminated in her husband being shot dead by police. Last night there were further disturbing revelations about Redouane and his life in the UK.
Like his fellow London Bridge attacker Khuram Butt, he was a follower of hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s banned Islamist extremist group al-Muhajiroun, Sky News reported.
Sources in Dublin revealed he was arrested for immigration offences in 2009 – the year he was refused asylum in the UK – while trying to board a boat from Scotland to Northern Ireland and was held for a number of days. It is believed he was questioned about fake passports.
It was also claimed that UK police had arrested him previously, possibly for immigration-related offences.
Scotland Yard said on Monday that Redouane had not been on the terror radar in the past.
Last night a bakery boss who employed Redouane said the pastry chef had been looking for a better life in the UK, only for extremist Muslims to brainwash him. Rajan Sehdev, 44, owner of Dylan’s Bakery in Willesden, North West London, said Redouane was suffering from depression after splitting from his wife.
Redouane had already lived in the UK for nearly a decade when in August 2011 he joined the bakery, where he met Miss O’Leary.
‘It wasn’t a marriage of convenience,’ Mr Sehdev said. ‘The Rachid I knew is the complete opposite to the individual involved in the events of Saturday night.
‘He wasn’t opinionated, political or ever discussed religion. He never showed any extreme views.
‘It seems he came back a couple of years ago and moved east [to Barking] where he met these friends and associates, like Khuram Butt and Anjem Choudary. He was naive and they manipulated him… brainwashed him. He had lost his own way in life and maybe thought they gave him a purpose – instead they poisoned him with their ideology.’
KILLER’S WIFE ASKED FACEBOOK GROUP TO HELP BRING HIM TO UK
Charisse O’Leary begged for help and admitted she was pregnant with her absent husband’s child as she tried to get him to Europe and then Britain
The wife of one of the London Bridge terror attackers asked for help on Facebook – to bring him into Britain.
Jihadi Rachid Redouane’s wife asked for advice from unwitting fellow immigration applicants to keep the killer in Britain because he had a family in this country.
Charisse O’Leary gave details on social media of how she and her 30-year-old husband were trying to apply to extend his stay in the UK via the backdoor by making an application in Ireland – after she claimed he had previously been in the UK illegally.
Members of a Facebook group called ‘SS RIGHTS, EEA FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, Family its a Human right!!’ discussed the process of sending forms back and gave advice on the documents to send to the Home Office.
Once they discovered the identity of her spouse, members were outraged after realising that the terrorist’s wife discussed her immigration application on the group in 2015.
Charisse O’Leary gave details on social media of how she and her 30-year-old husband were trying to apply to extend his stay in the UK
On July 1, 2015, she wrote on the group that she was asking for advice on filling out an FP application form to stay in Britain.
The FP form is an application for a foreigner to stay in the UK if they have a family life in this country, with a partner, parent or dependent child or on the basis of your private life in the UK.
Writing as Charisse Ann O’leary she told how she was 22 weeks pregnant and arrived in Dublin on February 1, 2015.
Reaction: Since her story emerged people who helped her husband have reacted to the news he was a jihadi
She said: ‘Started on fp application form. Like a bag of nerves. If my husband was refused on the grounds of previous immigration history being in the UK illegally. Would I appeal it or do new application?’
In another comment she added: ‘We haven’t lied. We been here since 1st of February and im working full time since 12th of February. But now 22 weeks pregnant fell soon as arrived in Dublin. Really want to be home before baby arrives.’
In the same thread Charisse wrote that her baby was a ‘shock’ and has been on antidepressants.
She wrote: ‘Just had hard time baby was shock. Admitted to hospital for insulin injections as im diabetic. And back on antidepressants. Really need my family for support.’
Charisse also asked for help from members who could help translate some documents from Arabic to help with Rachid’s bid to remain in the UK by applying in Ireland.
The 38-year-old posted: ‘Anyone on here from casablanca? Who knows where I can get documents translated into Arabic please. And what documents I need to translate for application for my husbands visa to do ss route?’
On July 23, 2015, she wrote that his application had been successful, adding: ‘Thanks for your help and support hubby got fp x’
The group, which now has more than 2,000 members, was set up by Wayne Howard who was trying to help get his Philippine wife into the country in 2012.
He wrote on the group: ‘I have always been so proud that we set up these groups to help genuine families from all races and faiths, and now stupid evil couple shamed us all.’
Wayne later added that when he was told that her name was on the news he ‘dreaded the thought’ they had helped her and admitted that ‘for years’ he has been blocking people from joining the group.
He said: ‘She is in our group and we helped her. Total shock here how out good will to help families from all faiths and backgrounds has lead to this person using ss it’s disgusting.
‘We’ve been blocking people who have been trying to add themselves with black flags in their profile pictures.
‘We had all discussed that bad people could try and use the group. Now it seems to have finally happened.
‘But Charisse seemed genuine enough so we wanted to help her.’
After Charisse’s name was made public one user of the group said she met her in Ireland and was told Rachid was violent towards her.
Cristina Hemeida said: ‘So sad. I spoke to her a lot when she was in Ireland as we both pregnant at the same time. He was violent with her from what I remember but ended up staying with him, at least then.’
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Ten years ago I met a girl like that. She was a real estate appraiser and friend of my business partner. She was going to move to Saudi Arabia and marry this muslim who she hardly knew. I did give her my opinion and reasoning to urge her to reconsider. I never heard back from my partner what happened to her. She probably ignored it all.
It should be made law that anyone entering England Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland from the republic of Ireland will require a passport .
Tis scandalous that these fat Irish girls will lay
Down with any type of filth.
Ignorant, useful idiot of a woman. Played right into his hands because she couldn’t be bothered to learn about islam. Any Westerner who gets involved with one should remember ‘my muslim is not different’, just ask Jacqueline Gillespie.
Has she considered the niqab?