George Galloway may be on his fourth wife, but if our maths is right he has had five wedding ceremonies and may have had only two divorces. This needs explaining. According to reports, he married his second wife, Amineh Abu-Zayyad, in an Islamic ceremony when separated from his first wife (Elaine Fyffe) and then held a civil ceremony after the decree absolute came though.
Zayyad filed for divorce which was granted in 2009 and he married Rima Husseini in 2007 in a Muslim ceremony. It's not clear whether he divorced Husseini before marrying Putri Gayatri Pertiwi at the weekend. According to family law barrister, Neelim Sultan: "Islamic ceremonies contracted in the UK are not recognised as legal, although recognised among the community as a customary marriage, whereas bigamy is a legal offence and only relevant to the civil ceremonies.
"In Islamic law, you are allowed to have four subsisting marriages, although Galloway and his third wife may well have registered a talaq divorce with the Islamic Sharia Council." Congratulations are in order.
