Scottish husband gets text on his wedding day saying bride is a serial bigamist

A gutted Scottish bus driver has opened up on his ordeal that saw him marry a convicted bigamist in the hope that he can help others to avoid her trap.

Peter Knight was hitched to Lisa Jane Davies, 43, during a wedding ceremony at Gretna Green as she was able to lure him in with false claims that she was a respected doctor.

Unknowing Peter accepted a wedding proposal from Lia on Valentine’s Day 2023 with the couple tying the knot last July, the Daily Record reports.

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But the marriage was exposed as a sham when Peter, 63, from St Andrews in Fife, learned that his new bride wasn’t a doctor – and had a previous conviction for bigamy.

Mum-of-five Lisa – known to Peter as Alisa – had also gone off with another man for a non-binding marriage ceremony in Bali 18 days after she and Peter first met in September 2022.

Amazingly, Peter received a text on their wedding day from the family of her fifth husband warning him about Lisa’s shady history. But he refused to believe it and went ahead with the ceremony.

When he later learned the truth that she wasn’t a doctor and had a conviction for bigamy he said he “felt sick” and ended their relationship.

Peter, 63, said: “Looking back I feel like an absolute fool. I felt so happy to have her attention, to have someone to share my life, that I accepted everything she said.”

He added: “I trusted her, I wanted to trust her, I believed in her even when I was warned she was fooling me, and then I found out she was a fraud and a fake.”

Lisa – now known as Alisa Knight but who has had various aliases – has been reported to police in Scotland and Northern Ireland over her fake GP claims.

Lisa had been convicted of bigamy on November 25, 2016, at Cardiff Crown Court in her native Wales.

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Then known as Lisa Everard, already divorced once and in a legal marriage with two small children, she entered into a bigamous marriage on July 6, 2016 with Mike Hughes, 47, an unwitting lorry driver who became her third husband.

While still married to Mike, Alisa invited her soon-to-be fourth husband, Neil Annis, 53, a senior nursing assistant from Worcestershire, to stay in Mike’s house while he was away.

In July 2019, she married Neill after her marriage to Mike was dissolved. She later divorced Neill.

Lisa later moved to Bangor in Northern Ireland in 2021 where she set up home with another man we have called “Simon” to protect his identity.

She took part in a non-legally binding marriage to Simon in Bali one month after meeting Scotsman Peter in September 2022.

Lisa then went on to marry Peter, who was working as a bus driver in Northern Ireland at the time.

On her wedding certificate to Peter she declares her profession as a “GP” – but she has no medical qualifications.

Telling how he was drawn into her web of deceit, Peter said: “Alisa came across me on a dating website and I was flattered. I was a bus driver about to retire, she was 20 years younger than me and a senior doctor working in critical care at the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald. I thought she was incredible.

“She told me she was a doctor from the first time we spoke. She was confident and kind at first. Around the time she moved into my house, my health started to deteriorate and she reassured me repeatedly.

“She advised me what to say to my own GP, what tests to ask for and she looked after my medication, dosing them into a plastic container for me to take every morning. Before we met I would have walked between 10 and 20 miles a day with my dog Wolfie. But my health deteriorated so badly that I could barely walk up the stairs. So I was glad of her help and support and I trusted she knew what she was doing.”

But Peter did not know that he was dating a convicted bigamist and fantasist who has no qualifications in medicine or nursing.

He said: “We met in September 2022. Alisa proposed to me on February 14, 2023 and we got married in Gretna Green on July 5, that year. I only found out recently that she was the bride in a beach wedding ceremony in Bali, 18 days after she met me.”

Peter was also snared by a sob-story Lisa told about the death of her daughter.

He said: “I thought she was very brave after she told me about the death of her daughter 12 years earlier a head-on collision with a lorry when the little girl was just five years old.

“Having lost my own son, I was devastated for her. She said she turned off her daughter’s life support machine after six weeks.

“I wanted to support her and was glad when she got busy arranging our wedding, all the paperwork, all the bills and the wedding outfits.

“I thought I was in heaven – until the morning of the wedding when I got a text message from a stranger that made my blood run cold.”

As Peter was having breakfast ahead of his wedding ceremony in Gretna Green, he received a series of texts to warn him Alisa was a convicted bigamist, her claims to be a doctor were fake and her daughter was alive and well.

The information came from relatives of husband No5, who we are calling Simon to protect his identity. His loved ones had unravelled Alisa’s claims as fantasy four months earlier after trawling her social media posts and photos.

Peter said: “I felt sick, I was upset. I thought someone was playing a really nasty game but didn’t know who or why. I wanted to protect Alisa. I can admit now I was worried but I said nothing to her.”

Hours later on July 5, 2023, Peter and Alisa were married. On her wedding certificate she stated she was a GP.

Peter said: “She spent a lot of time away from home claiming she was working nights as a doctor in critical care. One night I was suffering terrible chest pains and thought I was dying.

“Stupidly I decided to drive to hospital because I thought an ambulance would take too long to reach me. I went in and asked for my wife, Dr Alisa Knight. They checked their staff details and no Dr Alisa Knight was listed. I asked them to check the nurses register in case there’d been a mistake. I was desperate for her to help me.

“But there was no Alisa Knight listed as a nurse either. I messaged her, sent her photos of where I was and begged her to come to help me.

“She responded on WhatsApp later and said: ‘I was in ICU. If you needed urgent care you should have gone to a&e. I’ve told you I can’t treat my family.’

“She also presented me with a four page document of my blood results that she got when she accessed the NHS’ Orion system, printed them without my permission or any authorised access.”

Shortly after Peter met Lisa in September 2022 she said she had to go to Birmingham attending for an international medical conference.

In fact she was travelling to Bali for a non-binding marriage ceremony to “Simon”. That didn’t stop her marrying Peter at Gretna in July 2023.

Peter said: “I believed wholeheartedly that she was a doctor. She had all the gear, the surgical scrubs, the language and she talked a lot about her work. But I know now it was made up.

“I believed that she was in demand and was required to attend a top medical conference in England with hundreds of other doctors.

“Alisa told me it was so important that she wouldn’t be able to contact me for two weeks and I wasn’t to contact her.

“Looking back I don’t know how the alarm bells weren’t ringing. I was impressed by her when in reality I was being groomed by her.

“I found out in March 2024 that she’d been nowhere near a medical conference that October. She had been getting married on a beach in Bali. That explained her tan.

“Alisa presented herself to me as a doctor, she presented herself as a senior, experienced and qualified doctor who was busy saving people’s lives. She had letters and parcels sent to my house addressed to Dr Alisa Knight and under the surname of her fifth husband.

“On our wedding certificate she states she’s a General Practitioner. She told me about her patients, she told me about lives she’d saved.”

Police are now investigating Davies over her life of fantasy.

Over the years Davies has used more than 20 aliases, two dates of birth and has had three weddings at Gretna Green – to Peter and her second and fourth husbands.

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She has told her last three husbands that she is a GP as well as other senior medical roles.

The General Medical Council and the South Eastern NHS Trust in Northern Ireland, where she briefly worked in a non-medical role, have confirmed Lisa is not and has never been a doctor or licenced medic.

She was born Lisa Jane Davies in South Wales in 1981 and since leaving school, she has worked as a care assistant, fast food server and office worker.

Lisa is currently living in Belfast but on social media claims to be “Alisa Ali” and “living in Dubai”.

She has been working in admin and secretarial roles in hospitals, GP surgeries and medical centres in Northern Ireland on short term contracts through a number of employment agencies based in Belfast.

In 2019 when she married her fourth husband Neil she stated on a marriage certificate that she was ‘senior kennel assistant’. Just four years later, she claimed on her wedding certificate to Peter that she was a ‘General Practitioner’ – a GP.

The General Medical Council has confirmed she is not listed on the UK’s medical register, and stated: “If an individual is giving the impression they hold registration or a licence with us, when they don’t, or there is evidence they are carrying out a privileged activity while unlicensed, then this is a criminal offence in the UK and should be reported to the police.”

Lisa has now been reported to the PSNI and Police Scotland, Northern Ireland’s Health Trusts and the HSCNI by her sixth husband Peter over the false GP claims.

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