'I moved to Manchester to be with a man I met online. He turned out to be the most evil monster ever'
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. READ MORE: Doctor admits killing patient who died after 'medical procedure' at Royal Oldham Hospital 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.
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