Brit gran finds out her Kenyan husband has 47 other women around the world

A RETIRED primary school teacher got the shock of her life when she found out her Kenyan husband was secretly seeing another 47 other women around the world.

Judith Stillwell, 61, met Ovi Elias after contacting him through an online dating website.
He told Judith, a divorced parish councillor from Sussex, he lived in London but spent a lot of time abroad on ‘urgent business’.

After a three-year relationship they got married in Brighton in 2009 and he moved into her home in Ashington, West Sussex.

Judith was smitten, saying: "He was completely different from any man I’d ever met and I was intrigued.

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“After our wedding I paid for us to visit his relatives in Kenya for a blessing, staying in one cramped room with other relatives.

“I was so moved by the dilapidated state of the house his father lived in, I paid out thousands to have water and electric showers connected plus other essential repairs.”

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What followed was typical of many of these scams. Mr Elias said he was buying an investment property in Dubai and Judith spent thousands of pounds helping him fly out there and pay large deposits.

But it was on his latest trip to Dubai in February this year that the horrible truth about Ovi's ’business trips’ became clear.

Judith, who has two grown-up children and a grandchild, noticed he’d left details of his e-ticket on the computer. But instead of saying Dubai it was for Australia.

When Ovi, who says he is 62, was confronted he claimed he’d detoured from Dubai to Australia with a business friend.

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But three weeks later she received an email from a woman in Australia calling Ovi by one of his other aliases ‘Steve’.

She said she had found his email account open and found a list of women who he was in regular contact around the world.

Judith said: “She’d found a list of 47 women, including us, dotted around the world. She’d even contacted some of them – a woman in the States, a 'Roz' in Tasmania, another woman in the Philippines and so on.

“Apparently he met them all on dating websites and using the story about a property in Dubai, got them to pay his air fares all around the world.

“Then he stayed for weeks at a time living with each woman, spinning her the same line.

“While I believed him when he said he was flying to Dubai to do property deals, I have now discovered he was actually flying all over the world meeting other women who funded his lifestyle, just like me.

“I thought we had a genuine relationship and I’d met my soulmate. But the reality is Ovi – or Steve as he was also known – seems to be making a good living out of women like me.

"He meets them on a website, says he is in love and then after coming out with various sob stories, gets them to pay for his bed, board, and travel.”

Judith, who has now left Ovi, contacted police but they said they couldn’t do anything.

She added finally: "My only hope is telling my story warns other women to beware."