New York Post

London fiend’s wife fled marriage after only 3 months

- Melkorka Licea

Before he killed four people on London’s Westminste­r Bridge, jihadist Khalid Masood was known as a “violent psychopath” whose wife divorced him after just three months, British news reports said.

Farzana Malik, 38, married jihadist Masood, 52, in 2004 — shortly after he was released from jail for a knife attack.

After a violent confrontat­ion with her new husband, Malik feared for her life and fled their suburban London home.

“She was terrified, he was a dangerous man,” a Malik relative told the Daily Mirror newspaper. “She got out with a suitcase, just her clothes. She went to the other end of the country. She was scared of him.”

The anonymous relative elaborated on Masood’s cruelty.

“He was very violent towards her, controllin­g in every aspect of her life — what she wore, where she went, everything,” the relative told the Sunday Times.

“He was a psychopath and I mean that in the medical definition of the word. He came from a nice family, had everything, but there was something very wrong with him.”

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