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| Cheat: Rat Barnbrook wanted to wed Annika |
The racist ranter —bidding to be London mayor—was secretly bedding Finn Annika Tavilampi when he proposed to English National Ballet star Simone Clarke.
Barnbrook—who studies Hitler—ADVANCED on Annika, 28, after spotting her on an online dating site, BLITZED her with filthy texts and pictures— and asked her to MARRY him too.
"Richard sent me photos of his private parts before I'd even met him," says the redhead. "I thought this was very odd for a politician."
She only discovered the full depths of the London councillor's extremism when she found a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf under his bed.
"If I'd known before that he was a sleazebag I probably wouldn't have gone anywhere near him," says Annika.
"He was average in bed. And then there was his drinking—I've only ever seen him properly sober a couple of times. But I still fell for him."
Barnbrook, 47, caused a storm when he began dating principal dancer Simone after it was revealed she'd joined the BNP last year. She was then investigated by the English National Ballet over her anti-immigrant views and is set to leave.
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| Red Threat: Annika was secret lover |
"We'd started chatting on Dating Direct, then he started sending me sex texts straight away," says Annika.
"He wanted me to send him explicit pictures. I told him it sounded like he just wanted sex and I wanted a relationship. He said he wanted the same as me."
The Barking and Dagenham councillor kept his relationship with Simone a firm secret from Annika when she began romping with him at his flat in Blackheath, south-east London.
"I had no idea he was using me. He'd talk a lot about sex but also about marriage and children," says Annika. He even sent her a text saying: "If you still like me! And we get on! I would like to get married!x"
"He's not the most skilful or active lover I've had, but I loved him so much it made up for it— even though the only time he took me out was to a Wetherspoon's."
Brazen Barnbrook even tried to get the nurse from London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to appear on an election campaign leaflet for the BNP. "He wanted an example of an NHS nurse who supported him. I refused." The turning point in their relationship came in November when Simone found out.
"I got a text from his phone saying, ‘Hello Annika I am Richard's girlfriend. Why are you texting him?' I texted back that I was under the impression I was his girlfriend," says Annika.
The next day Barnbrook sent her a text dumping her. But the sneaky cheat bedded her again when she collected her things from his place—and the last time in December when he asked her to help him move to a flat in Dagenham.
"I stayed with him again and we had sex. While sorting stuff out, I even found a copy of Mein Kampf under his bed. As I'm not British, the BNP didn't mean that much to me. But I'm certainly not a supporter."
Then Annika read in the papers about Barnbrook and Simone and confronted him.
"The article said he'd proposed to Simone at the same time he proposed to me," she says. "I can't believe how devious he's been."
Now her love for Barnbrook is like any faint chance he had in the race for London Mayor. Finnished.