The father-of-two, 29,
who dumped his partner of 10 years for his Ukrainian refugee girlfriend, has
been pictured with the 22-year-old after they moved into his
parents’ home.
Security guard Tony Garnett
can be seen embracing his lover Sofiia Karkadym after she moved into the long-term
couple’s home for 10 days, having fled war-torn Lviv.
Mr Garnett who lives in
Bradford, West Yorkshire, said he has fallen in love with Sofiia and wants
to spend the rest of his life with her.
And Sofiia, who fled the city
in western Ukraine, said she ‘fancied’ Tony as soon as she saw him and
that the pair are living their very own ‘love story’.
The new couple are now living
with Tony’s mother and father, although they are looking at properties to move
into.
Yesterday, jilted mother Lorna
Garnett shared her anger after she let the Ukrainian woman into her home.
Lorna says she was left
heartbroken after her partner decided to leave her for Sofiia.
Speaking to the Sun
on Sunday, Lorna said she believes Sofiia ‘set her sights on Anthony from
the start, decided she wanted him and she took him’.
She added: ‘She didn’t care
about the devastation that was left behind. Everything I knew has been turned
on its head in the space of two weeks.’
Lorna told the
newspaper she had reservations about the scheme but felt it was the right thing
to do after seeing the ‘terrifying’ situation in Ukraine on the news.
She said: ‘I decided it was
the right thing to do to put a roof over someone’s head and help them when they
were in desperate need.
‘And this is how Sofiia has
repaid me for giving her a home.’
The family had taken Sofiia in
in an effort to do their bit to help Ukrainian’s fleeing the Russian invasion,
with Tony telling The Sun he ‘wanted to do the right thing’ and that
she was the first person to get in touch on a Facebook page where he offered to
house a refugee under the Government’s scheme.
Sofiia, who works as an IT
manager, flew into Manchester on May 4 after waiting for weeks in Berlin for
her UK visa to be approved.
Tony said he and Sofiia
quickly developed a connection, and while his six-year-old and three-year-old
daughters also took a liking to her, his partner of 10 years did not.
