SERIAL bigamist Emily Horne's FIFTH 'hubby' last night told for the first time how she TRICKED him into marriage with a potent mix of sex and lies

In an exclusive interview with the News of the World 25-year-old Ashley Baker declared: "Emily's a cold, evil woman who needs to go to jail for a very long time."

Ashley spoke out after seeing the one-time pin-up model convicted this week at Manchester Crown Court. He said: "Emily uses sex as a weapon. And she's incapable of telling the truth.

"She faked PREGNANCY, the DEATH of a sister and a so-called RAPE - she even told me she was dying from CANCER."

Ashley admits the way he met blonde Horne in May 2007 was unusual - she was a massage parlour prostitute, paid for as a £60 birthday treat by his pals.

"We got on very well and I fancied her," said Ashley "We had full sex and Emily asked for my phone number. She called me next morning and we met after work for a drink. She said she'd nowhere to stay so she came back to my place. From that minute she rarely left.

"She promised she'd never work at the parlour again and suddenly we were together.

Posing

"Emily told me her full-time job as a computer analyst meant she had to work away a few days a week. But I was besotted and proud to have her on my arm. And she knew how to make the most of her sex.

"On her birthday we were out having a drink when she got a glint in her eye and said, 'Want to use the camera tonight?' Her parents had bought her a digital one and she knew exactly what she was doing.

"After an all-you-can-eat Chinese in Oldham we got home and Emily started posing. I could tell she was enjoying it as I snapped away.

"Afterwards we had passionate sex. It was so noisy my mum, who we were staying with at the time, complained. She had to turn the TV up because of Emily's screaming and the bed banging on the wall."

But Horne, 30 - now living with yet another man, West Midlands glazier Wayne Harper - viewed sex as a treat to bestow and deny in order to get what she wanted. Ashley, of Chadderton, Oldham, added: "At the start we made love a couple of times a night. But in the end rationing became her method of control I was under the thumb."

And Horne was adept at keeping Ashley on his toes in other ways. Weeks into their relationship she called him at work, sobbing that her sister had died on holiday in Spain.

"I was devastated for her," said Ashley. "Then came a second bombshell. She said a colleague had raped her. I was furious and tried to persuade her to call the police but she wouldn't even tell me his name. It was very difficult. I just wanted to be there for her."

Horne went off sex for a while but slowly they began again, until Horne announced she was pregnant. Ashley said: "I was over the moon, so excited. Emily had hinted at us getting married and I wanted us to be a proper family, ready for the birth."

Wiles

So when Horne witheld sex again Ashley didn't moan. "I thought it best for the baby," he said. But Horne soon claimed to have had a miscarriage.

"I was heartbroken," said Ashley. And there was another blow. Horne announced she had womb cancer. Ashley added: "I was worried sick. Emily even talked about dying and it made me even more determined to marry her."

The pair wed in September, 2007. But as they drove off to a Scottish honeymoon Horne broke down and confessed she was a bigamist and had served time. On top of that she was still married to someone else.

"I was stunned," said Ashley. Nevertheless Horne's sexual wiles kept them together.

"Then I got to see just how ruthless she could be," said Ashley. "After sex she'd threaten to tell the police I'd raped her unless I behaved how she wanted."

But last July Ashley could no longer live a lie and told the cops. Horne is now awaitng sentence. Ashley told us: "When I learned the full details about Emily's life, I was speechless.

"All her stories - the sister's death, the rape, the cancer, the pregnancy, the job - were lies.

"And all the while she'd STILL been working at the massage parlour. I felt sick."

Till the truth us do part

HORNE'S first and ONLY legal husband is old schoolpal and soldier PAUL RIGBY.

The couple wed in December 1996. Now stationed in Ulster with the Royal Irish Regiment, 30-year-old Paul said: "She looked the bees' knees in a black dress and a lacy thing over her head.

"Now I think it's a pity it didn't go around her neck."

Three years later Horne 'wed' No2 Leeds bank worker SEAN CUNNINGHAM - only to leave him weeks later for his mate Simon Thorpe.

Dump

That only got as far as engagement, halted by Horne 'marrying' No3 Rotherham web designer CHRIS BARRETT, 30.

"We met on a bus and three months later we were wed," said Chris. "I should have realised something wasn't right."

Victim No 4 was Ipswich train guard JAMES MATTHEWS. When Horne tried to dump him four months later the truth came out and she was jailed for six months in 2004.

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