- By Marcello Mega
Emma Kirkwood was a shoulder to cry on for Drummer Rigby's estranged wife Rebecca - but was repaid by her pal cheating on her with soldier husband David George
When Drummer Lee Rigby was hacked to death in the street by jihadist maniacs, his devastated widow Rebecca had his mate’s wife Emma Kirkwood’s shoulder to cry on.
But grieving Rebecca, 31, repaid Emma’s kindness – by running off with her soldier husband David George.
Love rat David, 23 – who played the Last Post at Lee’s funeral and cried on television when he admitted how much he would miss his comrade – at first denied the relationship to Emma, 26, telling her she was “sick” to suggest it.
When she questioned Rebecca, because she didn’t believe her husband, the mum-of-one replied: “Don’t you think I have enough to worry about without taking on other people’s problems?”
But Emma’s fears were finally confirmed this week when the couple were pictured together during a shopping trip in Halifax.
Emma – who married David two years ago – told the Sunday Mirror she felt let down by Rebecca and the man she loved.
She said: “Rebecca was devastated about what happened to Lee. They were apart and he was engaged to someone else, but he was the father of her son. I felt a huge sympathy towards her.
“Having been left to raise Jack on her own, I wouldn’t have expected her to place me - someone who had been kind to her - in a similar position.
“I am hurt and angry.
“Around three months after Lee’s murder, Rebecca came to Cyprus where David and I were based.
“One evening she arrived at our house with a friend. It was quite late and we were in bed but got up and had a few drinks in the garden.
“Rebecca broke down and poured her heart out. She said she loved Lee and that they had been about to get back together.
“I had no idea whether that was true, but I tried to comfort her as best I could.
“To start a relationship with my husband within weeks of that night is devastating.”
Lee, 25, was murdered in the street in May by Islamic fanatics Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, who will be sentenced later this month.
At the time of his death, he was engaged to fiancée Aimee West, 23.
Last month she told of her distress at being frozen out at his funeral because Rebecca remained next of kin.
Aimee had to sit behind dignitaries including Prime Minister David Cameron in church and was not invited to the burial.
On the day he died, he sent a number of loving messages to Aimee.
One said: “I love you with all my heart.... Just remember I love you more than anything in this world and I will do anything for you xxxx.”
Emma met David in June 2009 on the day pop superstar Michael Jackson died.
They married in January 2012, two days before learning Emma was pregnant with their daughter, Lilly-Mae, 15 months.
Emma said: “We had our ups and downs and I’d threatened to leave him before over his compulsive lies, but it wasn’t a serious threat. I just wanted him to grow up and live in the real world.
“When Rebecca came to visit in Cyprus, we had no marriage difficulties. But within a few weeks I was back in the UK and he was ignoring my calls and texts. I wondered what was wrong.
“I then learned he was staying with a soldier and his wife who lived in the same street as us, and they just happened to have Rebecca staying with them.
“He was sleeping there, kept his uniform there and was washing and changing there.
“I couldn’t understand why he was doing that when our home was in the same street?
“For a few weeks he blew hot and cold. One minute he said he loved me and wanted to be a family with our daughter and the next minute he wanted to be free to have fun with the lads.
“I didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t want my daughter to lose her dad, so I kept trying.
“I was staying with a friend in Uxbridge when he was on duty briefly in November at the Tower of London. I suggested we travel in to meet him, but he said he was too busy.
“Next day he got in touch, apologised and said he’d like to see us. Lilly-Mae was a bit poorly but I gathered our things and got on a bus and three tube trains to travel there. We were late as I got a bit lost, but he still kept us waiting.
“We went to a Subway restaurant. I looked at him as he held our daughter and asked if he was seeing Rebecca. He looked me in the eye and swore on Lilly-Mae’s life that he hadn’t seen her for weeks.
“I knew he was lying, and told him to give me my daughter as I was leaving. That’s the last either of us has seen of him.
“I’ve had phone contact until fairly recently. He admitted he had seen Rebecca. He claimed she’d travelled from Halifax to Manchester where he was staying in a hotel to take him shopping for a Christmas present for our daughter.
“I knew he didn’t have any money for a hotel and had spent the weekend with her, but he insisted on lying. We were on Skype and I asked to see what he’d bought Lilly-Mae. He refused and the present has never materialised.’
When they got together, Emma was 21 and he was 18, but Emma said he added three years to his age, a lie she discovered months later.
Worse, he claimed to be single, but was actually married with a son, a fact Emma learned when his wife called her number having found it on his phone.
By that time, they had started a sexual relationship and he insisted his marriage was over. Emma said: ‘It bothered me that he never saw his son, unless he did it behind my back.
“His first wife will be laughing at me now, thinking I deserve this, but if I’d known he was married in the first place, he’d never have got near me.
“He’s a stranger to the truth. He’s lied to me all through our time together, but he’s not very good at it and I catch him out, which makes him angry.
“His latest pathetic attempt to deceive me was at New Year, when he told me he was still in Cyprus, but I saw pictures of a New Year party in Halifax on Facebook.
“Rebecca was dressed as Tweety Pie and he was dressed as Sylvester. Whoever was taking and posting the photos had been briefed, because his face isn’t on any of the pictures, but I knew it was him.
“When he was photographed with Rebecca in the street a few days later and the image appeared in the press, he was wearing the same shoes as Sylvester.
“He needs to be a man and admit what he’s doing. He’s Lilly-Mae’s father and I want her to have a dad, but does she need someone so pathetic in her life?
“It sickens me to hear he’s been a ‘tower of strength’ for Rebecca and Jack. What about his own flesh and blood?
“At 23, he’s left two wives and two of his own children behind.
“As well as thinking about what they’re doing to my family, Rebecca might want to think about his track record for her own sake, and her son’s.
“He might be a tower of strength today and desert his post tomorrow.”
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