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She poses proudly in her bridesmaid’s dress, the very picture of cherubic innocence.
Yet it wasn’t long before little Emily Horne’s natural excitement at family weddings turned into a bizarre obsession. She grew up to be a serial bigamist and now faces up to seven years in prison after marrying illegally for a fourth time.
In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, her father Graham Horne says he has virtually disowned his daughter, whose fantasy life and ‘unnatural appetite for sex’ have left her family in despair.
Bridesmaid to bigamist: Emily Horne, aged three, right, as a bridesmaid at an uncle’s wedding, and left, working as a model
‘She’s lied time and again – that this time it was the right man and that she had divorced and it was all legal,’ he said. ‘When I challenged Emily with the truth she just would say, “Why don’t you ever believe me?” But I knew these marriages were all a sham.’
He recalled that, aged just 12, she once begged him to buy her a second-hand wedding dress from a charity shop. She just grabbed my hand and said, “Daddy, look at that beautiful dress. Please buy it for me.”
‘It all seemed so innocent. I paid ?20 for it, which was a lot of money at the time. It was a beautiful satin dress. We took it home and she tried it on straight away, twirling around in front of us. She was beaming with delight and she looked a picture.’
While she had shown some academic promise, she ‘went off the rails’ during adolescence, possibly due to the break-up of 54-year-old Mr Horne’s marriage to Emily’s mother, Marion.
Fantasy life: Emily’s wedding to fourth husband James Matthews
‘She quit school on the day of her 16th birthday, walked out and never went back because she knew that was the legal leaving age,’ said Mr Horne, a hotel night manager from York.
‘She had become well known to the police, staying out all night and not coming home, sometimes for days. It caused me great pain and heartache. She had been such a brilliant little girl. I saw her descend into a streetwise urchin with an unnatural appetite for sex.
‘When Elaine, my second wife, and I moved to a house we bought after my father died, I asked her if she wanted to live with us. She told me, “I want to go it alone, Dad.” ’
Mr Horne added: ‘There were so many lies. She once claimed she went to university to study physics, but she left school without any qualifications.
‘I was listed as a retired Army major on one wedding certificate. I left the Royal Signals as a radio operator. I could laugh, but when it involves the daughter I idolised it’s not funny.’
Emily, 30, began collecting husbands at the age of 18, when she married soldier Paul Rigby.
Mr Horne said: ‘I had forbidden the marriage because of her age but she went through with it anyway. I didn’t go to the wedding – I haven’t been to any of them. She would show me wedding pictures and say, “I’ve done it again, Dad.” I told her I didn’t want to know.’
Mr Horne told how Emily stole his wife’s credit cards to buy clothes and wigs. And he recalled an occasion when her sister Verity – who did go to Leeds University and gained a degree in classics – applied for a passport. Verity was going to Greece as part of her studies. She received a reply from the passport office saying she already had one. It could only be down to Emily. Thankfully, they issued Verity with an emergency passport.’
Mr Horne still sees Emily from time to time. She has worked as a stripogram and a ‘glamour’ model and has starred in two adult films.
‘She seems to go underground, then resurfaces,’ he said. ‘Only last week, after she hit the headlines again, she rang me and said: “Hi Dad, how are you?”
‘I replied, “Not very well.”
‘All she said was, “Is it me, Dad?”
‘I exploded, shouting, “When are you going to give us some peace?” and slammed down the phone.
‘A part of me knows that one day I’ll get a call from the police saying she’s been found dead.’
Emily left Mr Rigby in 1996 for bank worker Sean Cunningham, marrying him in 1999.
A year later she married website designer Chris Barrett. He found out about her previous marriages and went to the police, who cautioned her for bigamy. But in March 2002 she wed husband number four, train guard James Matthews. In 2004 at Ipswich Crown Court she was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to bigamy.
Now she awaits sentence at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty last week to bigamously marrying fifth husband, salesman Ashley Baker, in 2007.
Yesterday it was revealed she is living with another man, glazier Wayne Harper, in his parents’ home in Kingswinford, West Midlands. They have not married.
Mr Horne said: ‘I can’t work out why she does it. She blames bipolar disorder. Only she can deal with this. The medical care is out there. She has to agree to it. Nothing she can do to me now can cause any more
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