The besotted boyfriend of a five times married bigamist who faces justice next week today declared: “I am completely in love with her”.

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Window fitter Wayne Harper has set up home with 30-year-old Emily Horne at his mother and father’s house in the Black Country.

She faces a possible jail sentence on Monday having admitting bigamy at an earlier court hearing.

He declared: “She’s the girl for me. I was a bit shocked when she told me about being a bigamist who was married to five men but I am standing by her. She is slim, sexy and intelligent. What more could a man ask for?”

Emily, who is living with Wayne at his mother and father’s semi in The Portway, Kingswinford, explained: “I told him that I had a past that would make him run but he accepted that everybody has a past. He is more than a boyfriend. He is my best friend and rock.”

The couple, who have no plans to marry, met while both were patients at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton last year.

Parents

He was being treated after a cycling accident while she was recovering from minor surgery – and on the run from police investigating her latest illegal marriage.

Five days later she moved in with his parents Barbara and Dennis who have supported the serial bigamist.

Now the family are anxiously waiting to learn her fate at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.

Wayne, who is one of six children and uncle to a brood of nieces and nephews, has recently celebrated his 30th birthday in the lead up to the sentencing, and his mother has become 67.

Mrs Harper admitted the case has been a strain on the family.

Wayne and Emily were regulars at The Portway pub but have been seldom seen her exploits hit the headlines.

One customer said: “We never took much notice of them until we saw it in the papers and realised it was her. People were shocked.”

By John Scott and Helen Guy