“HUNTLEY CONNED ME INTO MARRIAGE”
Sources for this story came from a newspaper.
Crime refugee Brandon Huntley’s estranged Canadian wife believes he “suckered” her into marriage in a bid to secure permanent residence in her country.
And mother-of-two Melanie Crete-Huntley has reacted with shock to Huntley’s claims to the Canadian Immigration Board that he separated from her – after she gave him a home and financially supported him for nearly a year – because “she was not a nice woman”.
Melanie Crete-Huntley
“I have done nothing but try to help him,” Crete-Huntley said yesterday. “I don’t know why he would say things like this about me.”
in a controversial ruling that the Canada’s Department of Citizenship and Immigration is now trying to overturn, the Canadian Immigration Board awarded Huntley refugee status on the grounds that he was being persecuted by black people in South Africa.
In its findings on the case, the board said: “(Huntley) met his wife-to-be and fell in love with her. He married her believing that he could use her to help him to get permanent status in Canada.
“He was to find out later that ‘she was not a nice woman’. He separated from her by moving out just before Christmas 2008.”
Huntley
Crete-Huntley, who is to apply today for a full transcript of her husband’s evidence to the immigration board, said she had married Huntley because she loved him, but now questioned if he had been driven by the same motives.
“Now I think that his wanting permanent status in Canada might have been a factor in his wanting to marry me… I feel like I was suckered,” she said.
She said she and Huntley had split up in October last year because of disagreements between herself and her children over Huntley and had “agreed that we would try to work on getting things right from separate homes”.
Before learning of what her husband had told the immigration board, she said she had hoped they could patch things up.
“But for him to degrade me like this… I don’t think so any more,” she said.
According to Crete-Huntley, she met Huntley in 2004 through a cousin who had worked with him at the carnival where Huntley set up, repaired and took down rides. The couple started dating a year later.
Crete-Huntley said she had invited Huntley to live with her because he had nowhere to stay.
“One day we were playing around and he said to me, ‘We should really get married’, and I responded by asking him whether he was joking.
“But he said he wasn’t.”
The couple were married in court on August 31, 2007.
Because Huntley did not at that time have the legal status necessary to work, Crete-Huntley had to do two jobs to support him and her family.
Asked about her response to Huntley’s bid to get refugee status on the basis of his experiences of crime in South Africa, Crete-Huntley said she was concerned that “chances are high that he will be killed if he ever goes back”.
“He’s shown me his stab wounds,” she said.
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19 Comments
MaCaNiX
08 Sep 2009
BwHaaaHaaa…
“Sources for this story came from a newspaper”
Totally sick man…
FooFunk
08 Sep 2009
Oh come on leave the fuckin dude alone, if he conned the system or not good on him! its fuckin bullshit to think that its not possible for him to be subjected to crime weatrher he put himself in that position or not! and you cant tell that chick didnt know exactly what she was getting heself into…guy from south africa with no job and stabbing scars…whatever. my girlfriend is Canadian and i have been trying to get into that country for more than 2 years and it is an expensive an drawn out process which for the moment we have put to one side because of all the costs and processes to go through so again if he managed to get through give him a round of applause! instead of that the dude will more than likely have to come back to SA. this is what pisses me off, the government has bigger problems on its hands but its going to dick around with someone who has LEFT the country?!?! WHY?
apologies…rant over!
craig
08 Sep 2009
This dude does seem like a complete nut job now… anyways just want to say congrats Seth on that You Magazine spread! Niiiiice!
ottawa22
08 Sep 2009
As I personally know both Melanie and Brandon. This story comes as a great surprise to me. I lived in the project where they both resided during the time of their marriage and things were not as Melanie here would like to portray them. She was well aware of the situation and the fact that this was more of a business arrangement more than anything else. And got paid for it quite well. She may want to make it seem like shes the model wife. But she was far from. Brandon was used as her babysitter, her personal maid and any possible time she could, she threatened to call immigration on him. She is far from a wife and a mother as anyone could possibly get. Just ask anyone who knows her….CAS showing up at her house multiple times….scamming welfare……The father of her children (not Brandon) being a drug dealer, paying child support with drugs….doing drugs and alcohol in front of her children…letting her then 5-6 yr old daughter run wild. The things her daughter has told mine, scary and sad, unfortunate that some must get their 15 seconds of fame any way they can. Shes now been kicked out of the project and moved away, and we are much better for it……..Journalist should really look into their stories before posting it. Brandon is welcome back here in the project any time.
Seth Rotherham
08 Sep 2009
Ottawa22 you’re gonna have to chat to iol.co.za – the entire article came from there. Who knows, they might even use your comment in their next article.
ClayOne
08 Sep 2009
JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY
In_sewer_ants
08 Sep 2009
LOL, what a circus this has become. Mr Huntley is working the systems which occurs worldwide in all spheres of life on a daily basis. It’s not like he’s a pioneer of or for anything or anyone.
Jan D
08 Sep 2009
What do you mean ottawa22, from Melanie’s photo she certainly seem like one classy lady!
ottawa22
08 Sep 2009
@ Jan D….LMAO….ya, that she is :s every neighbors dream. Good riddance.
@ Seth, I don’t wish to talk to any media. I don’t want trouble,(from her) I want honesty. I’m just a person who is bothered by her “Holy” claims to being a “good” wife. I think this story has been all blown out of proportion as it is. There are many others here that would say the same.
She is a welfare scammer that is just trying to somehow cash-in on this. Its actually sad to see. All I know is on the marriage issue it was business, and she knew it… though sadly Brandon was greatly misinformed. Welfare recipients cannot sponsor an immigrant. He now knows this and wants nothing to do with her. If any one was conned it was him. Why else would someone marry her…ugh…
All I can say to her is would you sign the separation papers and give him back his photos already!
portche
08 Sep 2009
MELANIE SHOCKED???????? HER FOTO IS A SHOCKED ME AND SHE DOESNT COME ACROSS AS A NICE PERSON LOOK AT THAT FACE UUUGGGGGHHHHH
Why We Are White Refugees
08 Sep 2009
Ottowa 22,
On 03 September 2009, at 20:49, Mr McKune (the journalist (sic)), of this piece, was sent information, from a South African, that significantly supported Mr. Huntley’s claim for his refugee status. For example, how ‘honest’ the South African police are; how ‘concerned’ and ‘outraged’ the South African justice system is about a Ministry of Intelligence Official (Ms. Chawglay) who in a racial conversation to the white person said “Commit suicide and save us the trouble,” a goverment official who said “Who the fuck does this white bitch think she is?”; or in response to a hunger strike “Hope the fucking white bitch dies, who gives a fuck, sooner all these whites die, or fuck off and leave, the better;” about documented evidence, showing how South African prison and criminal justice, are intentionally, and deliberately creating crime, creating and fostering violence and hate; and how the ruling ANC elite benefit form the creation of these policies.
Note aforementioned are just a few examples; and of goverment officials, not documented street criminals.
Mr. Mckune had no interest in pursuing any story that may back up Huntley’s refugee application, only in trashing Huntleys reputation.
The media in south africa are not impartial, and have not been in any case that I have been involved in.
Huntley has embarrassed them, cause he had the courage to say, what the media are too afraid to print; but which it is their job — as the 4th estate — to hold the goverment accountable. Instead they are trying to crucify Huntley, for exposing them as frauds. Their reputations are on the line, and so they are trying to trash his. They are more vicious than piranha’s or baracudas! I kid you not.
joe
09 Sep 2009
@ClayOne
Nice one, hit the nail on the head!
JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY
City Slicker
09 Sep 2009
A quote from some random newspaper which appeared today
“A new study has revealed that Brandon Huntley, who has been granted asylum in Canada after claiming to have been attacked by blacks several times, is the new black. Or more precisely, the former Capetonian is the descendant of one Francina van der Kaap, a woman “of colour”, and more than half of his relatives are similarly coloured – in the verbal sense.
This is according to social historian Patric Tariq Mellet who says he himself shares Huntley’s colourful lineage”
Great so now this Brandon is going to come back to SA and claim BEE status???
Mug Me
09 Sep 2009
Jesus. I dont mean to be rude, but I would rather be stabbed once a day walking around Mowbray than have to bang that thing. She actually has paw prints walking up her arms. Seth, please dont publish pictures of woman who look like this on your site. Bring on some of those sexy little numbers, not this whale. I mean, I dont mind a fat chick after a couple of beers, but to marry one. Arrrggg.
Jaric
09 Sep 2009
“she was not a nice woman”.. was she perhaps a nice man?
Austin Powers
09 Sep 2009
Circus Folk.
Web feet, smell like cabage.
MaCaNiX
09 Sep 2009
@City Slicker…
Patric Tariq Mellet = ANC Spin Meister, Character Assassin and general Douchebag!
He couldn’t convince me to take a piss after 10 Jack Blacks!
Hectique Prognosis
09 Sep 2009
Goodness. Tapping that just to get into a country. He must really have hated Mowbray.
ashley samson
18 Aug 2011
You guys are all putting Melanie down when none of you idiots know anything..and as for ottawa22 why don’t you just put your name..why your scared we’ll know who it is…once you guys know the story and how my sister Melanie got used in this whole mess..maybe then you guys can talk…my sister did a dumb move by marrying him..and about scamming welfare and the father of her kids being druglers ..i don’t know why you’d even say that..and if you come from that neighbor hood you ain’t shit..your probaly a fuckin odsp or welfare case ..if your so better why the hell are you living there…so what all she asked was of him to babysit the kids while she went out and supported his ass…as far as im concerned she should of just told him to go fuck himself..and i strongly agree he shouldn’t get immagration..let him fucking go back to fucking South Africa…so Ottawa22 when you’re ready to give out your name then message me!
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