I married a convict I met while he was serving his 24 year sentence
A British woman married an American prisoner she had never met while he was serving a 24-year sentence. She has revealed she took him back after dumping him for a boyfriend she could be physical with.
Naomi Oquendo, 29, fell in love with Victor Oquendo, 33, when the two were pen pals.
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Victor shot two men dead in a gang war and played a role in three armed robberies.
He has currently served 14 of his 24-year prison sentence.
The couple first met in July 2021 and got married in prison a month later.
Naomi from Essex described Victor as her ‘soulmate’ and said it doesn’t matter that they can’t be intimate together because their relationship is deeper than that.
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But at some point their relationship became too much for her and in August 2022 she decided to break up.
On TikTok, she said: “I firmly believe that he is my soulmate, my other half, and that we are made for each other.
“But sometimes love isn’t enough. I had reached a point where I was putting everything I had into fixing him and helping him, that I completely lost myself.”
Naomi decided to move on with her life and said that in the first few months after their split, it felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders.
She no longer had to worry about Victor and eventually met another man, who moved in with her.
Naomi tried to convince herself that she wanted a life with her new man, dating and being physically together.
“But it wasn’t,” she told her TikTok followers.
“I would like to have a man who lives with me, but I want that with Victor,” she said.
One day, the mother of Victor’s child texted Naomi to tell her that Victor had met someone else.
“It felt like someone punched me in the stomach,” she said.
When Naomi realized how much she missed Victor, cracks began to appear in her relationship with her new husband and eventually their relationship came to an end.
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- Rebecca Kortfrom Oxfordshire, told her family she was on holiday in the US in 2022. They didn’t know she married double murderer Manuel Ovate Jr, who was sentenced to death
- Paula Williamson, an actress who appeared in Hollyoaks and Emmerdale, married the infamous Charles Bronson in 2017 after they became pen pals
- Karen Charves married Kenny Richey when he was sentenced to death in 2014. He was convicted of setting a fire in 1986 that killed his ex-girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter. Karen and Kenny’s union didn’t last, and she alleged he was abusive.
- Naomi Wisefrom Essex, married Victor Oquendo, nicknamed Animal, while he was serving a 24-year sentence in a US prison. They split in 2022 but have now rekindled their romance
She then redownloaded the prison messaging service and contacted Victor, only to discover that he had sent her over 200 messages.
He told her that the girl he had met was “just a comfort” and that his heart would always belong to her.
Naomi rushed to contact Victor and the couple decided to renew their vows via video call, after not seeing each other for two years.
And the couple will soon be reunited in real life as Naomi is planning a trip to the US to visit her husband.
“The divorce has made it clear to me that I would rather continue to struggle in the current circumstances than be without him,” she said.
Naomi has started a petition to shorten Victor’s prison sentence, as she believes he has already served his sentence.
The proposal currently has 5,000 signatures and if approved, it would mean Victor will be gone in 2027.
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