Gunshot wound can’t stop Scot from marrying ‘love of my life’
LESS than three weeks ago he was looking forward to his tropical island wedding without a care in the world.
But Tarek Naggar’s life was upended when he was gunned down by robbers just three days away from tying the knot.
Now the Scot has defied medical odds and the callous criminals who nearly ended his life over a £10 bounty to stand at the altar with his bride.
On July 20 Tarek Naggar was shot in the chest in front of his stunned fiancee and best man on the Philipine island of Cebu.
Three men on a scooter are thought to have demanded his wallet as he sat outside a bar in the island’s capital of Cebu City in the early hours.
When the 44-year-old, originally from Milngavie, Dunbartonshire refused he was shot at point blank range with a pistol. The robbers made off with a wallet containing local currency worth less than £10.
The joiner had been due to get married that weekend but instead found himself fighting for his life.
Friends said the bullet barely missed his heart and forced doctors to put him on life support in what they feared would be his final moments. But now he has married his Filipina fiancee Angie, 27.
Mr Naggar shared an emotional wedding picture of the pair at the altar of a church with friends online. Astonishingly he is standing for the photo and sporting a kilt, following the brutal attack which left him bedridden.
It is understood that the wedding took place on Saturday.
Mr Naggar told The Sun: ‘I’m still in a lot of pain and had to take paracetamol out my sporran during the ceremony to keep me going.
‘But nothing was going to stop me marrying the love of my life.
‘I think everyone was happy to see me on my feet again.’
One friend sent the pair a message reading: ‘Congratulations Tarek and Ange! Wishing you both very (bullet free) long lives together.’
‘Paracetamol in my sporran’