here<\/a><\/p>\nShe says she discovered his real age, in his mid-30s, when she found his ID – which he tried to claim was fake.<\/p>\n
Al-Shamie constantly ‘lied’ to her about his relationship history, the woman claims, telling her he had no children when she says he had three pre-school children and an ‘ex-wife’.<\/p>\n
“He does have three kids and I just find it all quite sad, to be honest,” she said.<\/p>\n
‘Extreme views’<\/p>\n
The woman says Al-Shamie hit her on multiple occasions and tried to impose ‘extreme’ views upon her.<\/p>\n
Recalling one occasion, she said: “Neighbours had seen me running out of the house. They called me a taxi. There were loads of situations like that.”<\/p>\n
The woman, who grew up in a Muslim family with a less conservative upbringing, says Al-Shamie would tell her she was ‘brought up the wrong way’.<\/p>\n
She claims he would put pressure on her to wear traditional coverings and was desperate to marry her. “It was little things like what he expected of me,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He wanted me to cover myself, full niqab, everything. He was proper pressuring me for marriage – and I didn’t want to marry him. This was after one month and he was like ‘come to my house’, and he was very forceful – extremely, really.<\/p>\n
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Police at Langley Crescent, Prestwich, where Al-Shamie lived(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
The former partner also recalls one occasion Al-Shamie suggested he wanted to join the terror organisation ISIS. She was horrified by his extremism but never believed he would act on his beliefs.<\/p>\n
While pushing ‘extreme views’ on her, Al-Shamie would tell her to be ‘dedicated to the cause’, the woman claims.<\/p>\n
“He used to say ‘I want you to be dedicated to the cause’, and he used to sit there and make me watch videos – like extreme videos – that I had no interest in.<\/p>\n
“I am Muslim and of course I love to learn more – but this stuff was things that I have been raised to not agree with.<\/p>\n
“He used to always say I was taught the wrong way and I wasn’t taught right. He was basically just trying to groom me into what he thought.”<\/p>\n
She claims she ended the relationship as she grew concerned about Al-Shamie’s state of mind.<\/p>\n
He told her he was ‘not right in the head’ and that he had done ‘demonic paintings and drawings’ since he was a ‘little kid’.<\/p>\n
‘Stalking’<\/p>\n
The woman was in college when she first met Al-Shamie, before getting a job in a Greater Manchester caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
She says he found a parking spot near to where he knew she would get a taxi home after a shift – before she changed her walking route to avoid him.<\/p>\n
She said: “He used to always get told to move because obviously it’s a loading bay. He got tickets, on tickets, on tickets because of it, and he didn’t care.”<\/p>\n
The former partner says she recognised the black Kia Picanto he drove in the terror attack because he previously used the vehicle to ‘stalk’ her – regularly pulling up outside her place of work, or turning up outside her home.<\/p>\n
Despite moving address and blocking his number, she recalls Al-Shamie still managing to track her down.<\/p>\n
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Police investigating the attack(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
During the course of their relationship, the woman says she found Al-Shamie still using Muzmatch.<\/p>\n
She says he would message young girls on the site, using false names such as ‘Valentino’ and ‘Ahmed’, and would set up multiple accounts.<\/p>\n
“He kept getting banned because of his speech and what he was sending,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There were times when he would send me videos of him with other girls, and the girls were quite young.”<\/p>\n
The woman recalls Al-Shamie telling her he had ‘rape fantasies’.<\/p>\n
“He used to say weird stuff,” she said. “It was just insane. I can’t believe I stayed as long as I did.”<\/p>\n
The woman never reported any of her allegations to the police as she was scared he would retaliate.<\/p>\n
Since Thursday’s attack, it has emerged that the 35-year-old was on bail following an arrest for raping another woman.<\/p>\n
Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE<\/a><\/p>\nTwo men – Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53 – both died during Thursday’s terror attack, while four others were injured. Al-Shamie was shot dead by armed police.<\/p>\n
His father, Faraj Al-Shamie, issued a statement on behalf of the family following Thursday’s attack.<\/p>\n
He said: “The news from Manchester regarding the terrorist attack targeting a Jewish synagogue has been a profound shock to us.<\/p>\n
“The Al-Shamie family in the UK and abroad strongly condemns this heinous act, which targeted peaceful, innocent civilians.<\/p>\n
“We fully distance ourselves from this attack and express our deep shock and sorrow over what has happened.<\/p>\n
“Our hearts and thoughts are with the victims and their families, and we pray for their strength and comfort.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: How Jihad Al-Shamie ‘groomed’ an 18-year-old college student 19:49, 04 Oct 2025Updated 20:17, 04 Oct 2025 Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2436,23849,59,57,58,78665,50,7659,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-179420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-bury","9":"tag-crumpsall","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-manchester-synagogue-attack","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-prestwich","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Manchester synagogue attacker Jihad Al-Shamie(Image: Facebook)<\/p>\n![\"Jihad](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2_Screenshot-2025-10-02-at-212153.png\")
Jihad Al-Shamie was shot dead by armed officers minutes later after it was believed he may have had a suspicious device on his person.<\/p>\n