Former Irish Catholic Aoife Nadiyah Molloy, 29, was put in touch with Jermaine Lindsay through a dating service.
She spoke to him on the phone a few times and then — despite never meeting — agreed to wed.
The bizarre marriage ended after he declared he wanted a second wife on their wedding night — and later took a call from hate preacher Abu Hamza.
Aoife, from the village of Kinnity, in Co Offaly, had packed her belongings and told her stunned family she was going to Leeds to marry Lindsay.
She said: “My mother and I had a huge row, but there was no stopping me.”
But she got the shock of her life when she met Lindsay, who would go on to set off a bomb on the Piccadilly Line near King’s Cross. It killed 27, including himself, in the 2005 attacks that left 52 innocents dead.
Aoife said: “I was hysterical — he was so lanky, skinny and young. I thought he had Aids or anorexia. He was wearing an Islamic cap, a white robe and I think he had a leather jacket on.”
She was also stunned by his first words. He asked her: “Have you got any major character flaws?”
She said: “I couldn’t believe it. It’s not the first thing you expect your husband-to-be to say to you. He felt under duress to marry me because I had made the trip from Ireland, but we agreed to go ahead.”
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Lindsay — aged 17 at the time and a Jamaican Muslim convert — gave Aoife a mobile phone, an alarm clock and £45 as a dowry.
She then went through an Al Nikah ceremony at the home of an Imam. They later went to the home of Lindsay’s mother, who was away in America.
She said that soon after she heard Lindsay on the phone talking to Samantha Lewthwaite, who would eventually become his second wife and the mother to his child.
Aoife said: “I was furious that he was talking to another woman on our wedding night, but he said that he was going to marry this woman too and that the Koran said he could.”
Aoife said they spent the next week “mainly praying, talking and sleeping”. But he also continued to tell her about a second wife. She said: “That was abhorrent.”
Finally she made it clear if he did marry she would leave. Lindsay then told her three times “I divorce you” — and under Muslim custom they were no longer wed.
She said: “I walked out of there and never heard from him again.” Lindsay later wed former prom queen Samantha, 24, who he lived with in Aylesbury, Bucks.
But Aoife says despite overhearing the call from hook-handed Abu Hamza, she never suspected his extremist links. Even after the 2005 bombings she did not realise he was involved.
But several months later she saw his name in the press. She said: “My blood ran cold.”
Aoife added: “The people who carried out those atrocities were brainwashed. Jermaine might have grown out of his fanaticism.”
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