In it United Kingdom, a man left his girlfriend for a refugee he had just met. The New York Post reported that the Briton was in a relationship for 10 years and decided to leave with a young woman who had been living in his house for only ten days. The couple had received the Ukrainian at her home in the city of Bradford, West Yorks, England.
Tony Garnetta 29-year-old security guard and father of two, said that it was love at first sight after meeting Sofiia Karkadym22: “We’re planning the rest of our lives together.”
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“As soon as I saw it, I liked it,” Karkadym said. to the medium The Sun. “It has been very fast, but this is our love story. I know people will think poorly of me, but it happens. I could see how unhappy Tony was,” she stated.
Karkadymoriginally from the city of Lviv, in the east of Ukrainelived with Garnett and his girlfriend Lorna beginnings of May after Garnett met Karkadym on Facebook. “We are sorry for the pain we have caused, but I discovered a connection with Sofiia like never before,” he said. Garnett. The relationship started to fall apart from the moment Karkadym stayed and Lorna started to get “very jealous”, Garnett said: “The atmosphere was getting very tense and Sofia told me that she did not know if she could continue living with us in these circumstances.
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Tony explained: “It was obvious from the start that Sofia and I clicked. I speak a little bit of Slovak and it is no different from Ukrainian, so I was able to make myself understood in their language.”
Tony said his girlfriend “started to get really jealous and was having big arguments with Sofiia, asking why he was with me all the time and ‘Why are you following him?’ The atmosphere was getting really bad and Sofia He told me that he did not know if he could continue to live with us under these circumstances.
“If she leaves, I leave”
“Lorna has never been so excited about having a refugee in our house because it meant the girls had to move into one room.”
Lorna told the man that he should decide and he did. Tony recalled: “I told Lorna, ‘If she goes, I go.’ He knew he couldn’t give her up and suddenly it seemed like a no-brainer.
“We packed up and moved into my parents’ house,” Garnett said. He added that the new happy couple had already begun to search apartment. A person close to Lorna indicated that she was “devastated”.
Tony told The Sun that his idea of help refugees started “with a simple desire of mine to do the right thing and put a roof over the head of someone in need, a man or a woman (…) I wanted to do the right thing and she happened to be the first person to contact me after I joined the Facebook groups for people willing to host refugees,” he told the British newspaper.
And he said: “My grandfather fled Russia to start a new life in the UK 60 years ago and without the help of others he would never have managed to start a new life (…) If we were invaded, we would expect the rest of the world to intervene to help us. That’s all he wanted to do, but things have taken an unexpected turn,” he stated.
“She was with Tony for 10 years and within 10 days her family was torn apart,” said a person close to Lorna.