article_snippet.sent: Just a few days into David stay, David met Ndey, then 22, a waitress who could speak good English.
article_snippet.sent: the pair started talking and after Ndey explained Ndey was recovering from Malaria and had lost Ndey job in the restaurant, David offered to help.
article_snippet.sent: David started sending Ndey £50 a week and even paid a cafe owner to give David new love a job, bank rolling Ndey wages of £30 a week, unbeknownst to Ndey in the town centre close to her home in Gambia.
article_snippet.sent: In June 2013, the pair wed at Kanising Islamic Court in front of Ndey's sister and uncle - sadly none of David's family made the trip for the wedding.
article_snippet.sent: In February 2014, Ndey asked David if David could pay the £60 a month lease on a fashion shop his wife planned to open, which David agreed to do.
article_snippet.sent: On top of this, David paid £2,000 up front on clothes stock and began working overtime to pay for everything.
article_snippet.sent: In January this year David contacted the police and Ndey was arrested and charged with bigamy and fraud.
article_snippet.sent: David with Ndey on the day of their wedding was fined 15000 Dalassi - ten years' salary - and will face two years in prison if David with Ndey on the day of their wedding fails to pay by the end of April.
article_snippet.sent: Betrayed, David is now desperate to recover the £24,000 David spent on Ndey over the last four years.
article_snippet.sent: David said: 'I refuse to divorce David with Ndey on the day of their wedding until David with Ndey on the day of their wedding pays me back every last penny.
article_snippet.sent: The fact that David with Ndey on the day of their wedding so willingly took my money as well is just heartless.
article_snippet.sent: David said: 'marriage ' is different to Ndey and I can only hope Ndey works this time.