for bigamy, Dailymail reports.
Airport after two of his wives realised they were married to the same
man and complained to police.
room and board whenever he was nearby and borrowing money from them
which he never returned.
whirlwind romance – and against the advice of her family – they were
married a month later.
when she happened across somebody with the same surname and a strikingly
similar-looking husband.
woman’s husband was not only similar looking, but actually identical.
The fact he had the same surname as her own spouse convinced her
something was wrong.
‘I thought that either he had a twin I never knew about or he was cheating on me,’ she said.
realised that when he was with one of them, he was never with the other,
and together they made a complaint to police after he vanished when
they confronted him.
That complaint led to the unravelling of a web of intrigue that has so
far revealed 16 different women all of whom believed they were in an
exclusive relationship with Tijan, including three who were married to
him.
The youngest of his women was 22, and the oldest 44; there is also
another woman he is married to in his home country, where he also has
children.Tijan used the women to provide him with a place to stay and
food whenever he was in the area, and also borrowed tens of thousands of
euros promising to pay it back later. He never did.Some also complained
he had taken their jewellery to use as a security on loans he needed.
And if a woman became too demanding on his time or for her money back,
she suddenly found that he had vanished.
from the western state of Vorarleberg to the capital Vienna. As well as
the 15 active lovers, they believe there were many others who he used,
then dumped.
women in Austra. Two of his current girlfriends were pregnant.
‘He always used the same tactics. He would look at women in bars and was always charming and attentive.
‘He would also fascinate them with fanciful stories about his homeland
in Africa and how he had fled horrific wars leaving his family behind –
and later he would ask for financial assistance for them.’
He went under various names and we have released his picture at some of his names in the hope that we can contact other victims.
‘They included the names Sonko Tijan, Bojang Tijan and Crang Junior.
‘He claimed the money was for business ventures to help his family in Gambia. We have found that he is actually also married to a woman in Gambia where he also has a family.’
for him and eventually tracked him down using Facebook after discovering
he was on the hunt for fresh victims. Officers arranged for a honey
trap with the cooperation of a young woman he had been communicating
with online to persuade her to lend him more money.