An 83-year-old woman who rose to fame after marrying her Egyptian toyboy lover who was more than half her age has labeled him a “selfish grabber.”
Iris Jones, 83, tied the knot with Mohamed Ibrahim, 37, in June 2020, assuring critics, including her family, that their relationship would last.
But three months ago it transpired that she had thrown him out of her home near Weston-super-Mare and replaced him in her affection with her cat, Mr Tibbs.
In a post on her Facebook page, Iris, who once bragged about the “great sex” the couple had, said: “I want to tell you the whole truth about the relationship between Mohamed and myself from the day she first met me. message sent so far.
On June 25, 2019 I received a message from Mohamed and we became friends through Messenger.
Iris Jones, 83, gave her thoughts on the now-abandoned romance on her Facebook page
She has thrown Mohamed out of her home near Weston-super-Mare and replaced him in her affection with her cat, Mr. Tibbs.
“He seemed like a nice guy and from the beginning he was forced into marriage and four children were born.
“He was going through a divorce and felt I was the person who could understand and talk to.
“He sent me pictures of himself and I said to him, ‘You’ll soon find someone else, a handsome fellow like you.’
‘I told him about myself, an old man of 79 years old with two adult sons, older than he, both married and living not far from me.
“Our messages to each other continued and I started to realize that he was becoming more and more loving and on July 10, 2019 he proposed marriage!
“He’d never seen what I looked like and my first reaction was, ‘You’re fucking mad!’
But the love bombing continued and in November 2019 I flew to Cairo and met him.
‘I brought several thousand pounds and I paid all his debts, as he had borrowed on his credit card.
The romance captivated the country and the couple posted love-struck photos on Facebook
‘We had a great time and I stayed for a month. We tried to get married, but we didn’t have the right documents.’
Iris then described how an official from the British Embassy in Cairo named John Neil warned her, “Don’t give him money.”
Unfortunately, Iris did not listen to his advice and wrote how the next time she went to see Mohammed, she took £15,000 and handed it over to him.
By now, Covid had hit and attempts to get married were thwarted by the pandemic, but on her third trip in 2020, they got married anyway.
Iris said: ‘I had £40,000 in my bank account and I handed over my debit card to Mohamed every day and we drew 1,000 Egyptian pounds every day.
“This was to pay for living expenses, eating out, honeymooning in Sharm-El-Shiek and generally enjoying the good life.”
After three months in Egypt, Irish returned to Britain and on leaving Cairo she wrote how Muhammad had told her, ‘Check your bank account when you get back to Heathrow.
“I think you got about nine thousand dollars in there.”
Enraged Iris stormed, “He was absolutely right. There is £9,000 left of the £40,000. Mohamed never had a job and never had any money.
“I used to tell people that we shared the costs, but that I paid for everything with my money.”
Iris added that Mohammed asked for money even when he was back in Britain, and she sent him another £14,000.
In November 2021, Mohammed obtained a marriage visa and was able to travel to Britain, where he was allowed to stay for two years, pending a review in two months.
To appease the Interior Ministry, Iris deposited money into his account so it wouldn’t give the impression that he was “shutting down the state.”
However, even after getting a job at a local supermarket, Irish wrote that he still kept ‘asking for a lot’ so much that she gave him a further £26,000.
Iris said, “I told him, ‘No more money. If I dropped dead tomorrow I wouldn’t have enough to bury me.’
She continued: “He said at the time he needed another £40,000. Well, you’ll have to whistle for it, because I don’t have it.’
Iris added that the relationship then began to deteriorate, with numerous arguments, especially after Mohamed learned that he would not inherit her seaside bungalow.
Mohamed offered to give Iris the names of women who “stumbled upon him” if she changed her will and, tellingly in her post, wrote, “It occurred to me that maybe that’s why he married me.”
Iris ended her lengthy post saying, “There’s a lot more I can say at this point, but it could raise legal issues.
“I learned from Mohamed’s behavior that he showed many traits of narcissism.
“I researched the condition thoroughly because I wanted to save my marriage, but Mohamed wouldn’t listen.
He was always right, I was always wrong. On June 13 of this year, after another vicious argument, I told him to go.
“It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make because my love for Mohamed was genuine, but there was no point pretending things would improve.
“I let my head rule my heart. There’s so much more I could say at this point, but that’s for another post.”