Patrice Evra has agreed with former teammate Gary Neville's damning comments on the state of the current Manchester United squad.
22.05.2022 - 21:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
“You should go on Plenty of Fish, you need a man,” a friend jokingly encouraged Jennifer. The then 36-year-old was working as a Patrol Manager at Centre Parcs at the time, and was loving her life.
Joining the dating website out of curiosity, she would get ‘randomers’ messaging her. Then she received a message from Jonathan Mealing: “Hi, how are you?”
Little did she know this was the start of the next three years of hell. After being convicted at a trial of offences of rape, controlling behaviour and sexual assault against three women, Mealing, of Welbeck Close, Whitefield, was this month jailed for 30 years.
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Now, his ex-wife Jennifer has waived her right to anonymity and spoken to the Manchester Evening News about her ‘living hell’ and how she’s since got her life back.
In 2016, single mum Jennifer was living in her hometown of Bedfordshire. Surrounded by friends and family, in a job that she loved and a size 18-20, she was content, bubbly and enjoying her life.
Upon receiving Mealing’s introductory message, she was surprised as he was four hours away in Manchester. ‘Why would anyone message me from Manchester?’ she thought.
Initially ignoring his message, she replied a day later, and so began their fraught relationship. “After that, that was it. I would get phone calls, messages.
"He paid for my train ticket to go up and see him. He was the nicest bloke, he was like Prince Charming,” Jennifer said.
“One night he’d paid for dinner and said he had this great job as a builder. Little did I know he was on benefits.”
The couple would see each other on weekends, travelling on the train backwards and forwards. He told her
Patrice Evra has agreed with former teammate Gary Neville's damning comments on the state of the current Manchester United squad.
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