EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian refugee who was dumped by her British lover and then ARRESTED for ‘trying to kick down his front door’ says she is ‘heartbroken’ and has no home or money

• Sofiia Karkadym was seen kicking door of Tony Garnett’s cottage in Bradford
• Witnesses said she was screaming ‘I love you Tony’ but he didn’t open the door
• She told the MailOnline that she has no money or home and is heartbroken 
• Police ‘told her to stay away’ after Mr Garnett ended the four-month relationship

The Ukrainian refugee who has been dumped by her British lover she seduced under the nose of his partner when she moved into their home has broken her silence about the heartbreaking split.

Sofiia Karkadym, 22, says she is devastated after father-of-two Tony Garnett, 30, ended their four-month relationship – and at her arrest for trying to kick down the door of their rented property and screaming ‘Tony, I love you’ last night.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Sofiia said: ‘I am lost. I am heartbroken and I still have feelings for Tony.

‘I have nobody here. No home, and no money. I have no friends. I am staying here in a disgusting place which the police have put me into in Bradford.’

She said she had been warned by police not to contact Tony, either by telephone, messaging or personally, and if she broke those conditions she would be re-arrested and charged.

The blonde IT manager has already been detained twice by police and held under suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour. Her latest detention came last night outside Tony’s rented Bradford cottage.

He urged police not to press charges. After she allegedly, click the front door, his house and began screaming.

Sofiia Karkadym is arrested by police after trying to kick down the front door of her British lover who dumped her. She told the MailOnline she is ‘lost’ and still had feelings for Tony Garnett

Tony Garnett, 30, left his partner of ten years for Ukrainian refugee Sofiia Karkadym, 22, after 10 days of her living with them. They have split, MailOnline can reveal

She told MailOnline: ‘ I never hurt Tony. I never attacked him. I was very upset about somethings regarding his partner, Lorna and their children.

’But he promised he will look after me and make everything alright.

’We were going to get married, but I knew that he could not have any more children( he has had a vasectomy which he stated he was going to reverse) and I thought we could have kids in five or six years’ time.

’But now I don’t not know what to do. I will probably go back. But I am very upset.

‘I dreamed of my life with Tony. I do not understand how this has happened.

‘He hasn’t allowed me to go to our own house and got me arrested twice because I wanted to talk to him in private.

‘He broke up with me through a message and has thrown me out on the streets and doesn’t care where I am of if I am safe.

‘He is showing a completely different face to what he was showing before.

‘Tony says that he wants to help people, but he doesn’t care about his partner and he has just thrown me out.’

The couple were making plans to visit Sofiia’s family back in Ukraine so that Tony can formally ask her father for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Tony has said their relationship is over

She said the knife incident, which Tony had said scared him,’ happened two months ago and he wasn’t even in the house.

He told police the knife incident happened at the weekend which involved her stabbing the kitchen wall.

She admitted she had put the knife into the wall.

She added: ‘ I was just angry because of the situation with his wife (partner and mother of his two daughters).

‘He didn’t seem to care about us, about our future, he was always talking about his children. He f- – – – – d up our relationship.’

She revealed that she had fled Ukraine, after having been in a violent relationship, where her jaw was broken, by an ex Ukrainian partner and that she was unsure how she would be able to settle back in Ukraine while it was at war with Russia.

Tony Garnett at his Bradford home with his ex-girlfriend’s luggage and belongings in bin liners waiting to be collected

Sofiia had allegedly been told by police to stay away after Tony called officers to an earlier bust-up on Saturday night when he told her their four-month relationship was over.

She left the home they had previously shared, but returned last night when neighbours heard her yelling at Tony outside, and dialled 999 after she repeatedly kicked the door.

Officers arrived in two vehicles with blue lights flashing, but she scaled a garden wall and disappeared into the night.

Police are said to have searched gardens and local streets with torches before they found her hiding in nearby bushes in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Exclusive footage shows her being escorted away by two officers while she shouted: ‘Tony, I love you. Please come with me’. 

After being taken away for questioning, Sofiia was freed without charge. 

Tony Garnett, 30, left the mother of his two children, 28-year-old Lorna Garnett (pictured), for Ukrainian refugee Sofiia Karkadym after 10 days. He has now broken up with Sofiia, but Lorna said she ‘wouldn’t have him back in a million years’

It is understood that she told officers she wants to return to her home country and family.

Her visa which allowed her emergency refugee status for six months, expires in a few weeks.

Tony told MailOnline: ‘ it is the perfect storm. Her visa runs out and she’s got nothing here in this country. She’s not with me anymore and she’s got no reason to stay.

‘I did not want her to be charged with anything. I think she has been through a lot and you have to at least sympathise with the fact that she’s from a country which has been invaded.

‘She is from Lviv which hasn’t really been affected as much as other parts of Ukraine. So hopefully she’ll be safe back with her family.

MailOnline revealed yesterday how Tony dumped Sofiia over her alleged heavy drinking and claims that she objected to him putting his two daughters before her.

He told how matters came to a head on Saturday night when she allegedly repeatedly stabbed a wall with a knife at their rented house after she got drunk while celebrating his 30th birthday

She had moved in with him and his partner of ten years Lorna Garnett, 28, in Bradford in May after she fled her home in Lviv in war-torn Ukraine and they offered her a place to live.

But just ten days later, Tony moved out with Sofiia after starting a relationship with her, leaving behind Lorna, the mother of his two young daughters.

Tony told how he watched from within the house after Sofiia arrived last night, and urged her to leave before police were called.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, he said: ‘I feared this might happen, that she would turn up at the house when she had been warned by the police not to.

‘She was kicking the front door and shouting and screaming and I tried to talk to her. I had to tell her why our relationship was over.

‘In those few minutes I told her that I was scared of what she might do after I’d seen her ram a knife into the wall in the kitchen several times while she was drunk.

Sofiia Karkadym (pictured) arrived in the UK at the start of May after fleeing the war in Ukraine. She was seen kicking the front door of the rented cottage she shared with him, screaming: ‘I love you Tony’

‘I am a security guard and I can look after myself, but I don’t like violence. And I was worried that she gets very angry.

‘It was my 30th birthday at the weekend and she ruined it by getting very aggressive after drinking too much and then the incident with a knife happened in the kitchen.

‘I have decided that I don’t want to be in a relationship with her anymore.

‘I have to put my daughters first. She hates the idea that I’ve got two children with my ex-partner Lorna.

‘She was always slagging Lorna off, who has done absolutely nothing to her and took her into her home.

‘It was my decision to leave Lorna and begin a new relationship with Sophia. Lorna isn’t and never has been at fault.

‘All that is over and Sofiia has to accept that.’

Tony revealed that the reasons for rows between him and his ex-girlfriend, included the fact that he had had a vasectomy and could not have children with her.

He added: ‘I do feel terrible at seeing Sofiia crying and screaming.

‘The police asked me several times on Monday whether I wanted them to press charges against her.

‘But I told them that I did not want her to be prosecuted. I wanted her to be given some help.

‘I was told by police that she had been warned not to come to my home or to get in touch with me.

‘But within a few hours she got in touch with me from her laptop. I had blocked her number so she couldn’t get through to me on the phone, but she began messaging me.

‘I ignored the messages, and then she suddenly appeared at the front door and was kicking and screaming.

‘I’m glad the neighbours called police because I was scared. And so were the other two Ukrainians who had been staying with us.

‘She wouldn’t go away, and I told her that she needed to sort herself out and that I was going to put my two kids first before her.

‘They are the most important thing in the world to me.

‘I was trying to have a conversation with her. I tried to tell her that our relationship was over, but she was shouting and screaming and crying. I dared not open the door to her.’

Tony had earlier packed Sofiia’s belongings in black bin liners ready for collection, saying that he would drop them off for her if she told him where to take them.

Lorna reacted to news of her former partner splitting up from his Ukrainian girlfriend by reportedly telling friends: ‘I wouldn’t have him back in a million years.’

IT manager Sofiia (pictured) was renting a property in Bradford with Tony after he left his partner and children four months ago

The Sun reported how she told pals: ‘I knew it would end in disaster for them — I just didn’t think it would come after only four months.’

She added: ‘He has thrown away so much. He can’t see me because of a restraining order and he hasn’t been seeing the children. But it’s hard to feel any sympathy.’

Lorna was unable to speak publicly about her split with Tony due to court proceedings.

But a friend said: ‘Lorna has been so hurt by all this but she’s strong and her entire focus has been on the children, they are her whole world now.

‘There is no part of her that wants him back, he’s ruined everything.’

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Tony revealed the end of his relationship with Sofiia, saying: ‘I am 100 per cent through with her. We are finished as a couple.’

He told how he had become ‘fed up’ with what he described as her irrational behaviour during the four-and-a-half months they were together.

He said: ‘I can’t take her abuse or anger any longer.

‘I left Lorna and my two children for her, and I made every extra effort I could to help her keep us together.

‘I worked so hard to make this relationship work. I knew that we would look like tw*ts if we broke up because we have a media profile and all the attention that has been put on us on television and on the internet.

‘I also genuinely felt sorry for her. She left her home and her country which was at war and knew nobody here.

‘Yes, I felt and I thought I was in love with her. But there is a side to her which I just cannot put up with any longer. She gets angry and aggressive.

He claimed: ‘On Saturday night she picked up a knife and stabbed the wall several times.

‘It really scared me and I had no choice but to call the police. That doesn’t make me happy at all. But I was worried about my safety.’

The row happened when the two other Ukrainian refugees – Sofiia Rastorhuieva and her boyfriend Illia Tronevych – were staying with the couple.

They had moved in with Tony and Sofiia after he saw a desperate appeal from them on Facebook, asking for accommodation.

Heavily tattooed Tony added: ‘I have made a mistake going into a relationship with Sofiia.

‘As I have said before, my relationship with Lorna was already over and I was really unhappy.

‘But this wasn’t the right thing for me. I have tried to help her. I really have.

‘I haven’t abandoned her and have even been messaging her mother to get her to help with the aid of Google Translate.

‘She may be suffering from PTSD. But she is from Kyiv where there hasn’t been much of the war.

‘I hope that she finds somewhere safe to live and is in a happier place. But she’s not for me.’

Tony, who received a barrage of online abuse over his relationship with Sofiia, said he would be looking for a new home, soon and would also part with the other Ukrainian refugees.

He said that Sofiia had sent him a string of messages since the bust-up, saying that she loved him and begging for a reconciliation.

But he said he had told her that he did not want back her back, saying he had already given her ‘chance after chance after chance’.

Tony also accused her of ‘ruining’ his 30th birthday.

He claimed he told her that he would be contacting the local council and the Home Office to try and get her re-housed.

Tony and Lorna first took in Sofiia after applying to be part of the Government’s refugee scheme because they wanted to help people fleeing from war-torn Ukraine.

But Tony grew impatient at how long the process was taking and joined Facebook groups where Ukrainians were looking for sponsors.

He made contact with Sofiia through one of the groups and she arrived in the UK on May 4 and went to live with him and Lorna and their daughters, aged three and six.

He told how they ‘just clicked’ and got on really well straight away, partly because he could speak Slovakian which is similar to Ukrainian.

The pair started chatting in a language Lorna did not understand, staying up to watch TV after she had gone to bed and regularly went to the gym together.

They both said that although they were ‘getting on brilliantly’ at this time, ‘it was no more than that’ and ‘innocent’.

But they ended up ‘finding excuses to touch and brush against each other’ and things got tense in the house.

Tony said he would return home to meals cooked by Sofiia who would tell him how ‘lucky Lorna was to have him’.

Lorna was angry about the situation that she eventually asked Sofiia to leave the family’s home just ten days after she arrived.

But she was shocked when Tony told her: ‘If she’s going, I’m going’.

The new couple ended up moved in with Tony’s parents before finding their own place and beginning the process of applying for a permanent visa for Sofiia.

Tony said at the time: ‘I am so sorry for what Lorna is going through, this was not her fault and it was not about anything she did wrong.’

Sofiia added: ‘As soon as I saw him I fancied him. It’s been very quick but this is our love story. I know people will think badly of me but it happens. I could see how unhappy Tony was.’

The couple later talked of their hopes of getting married and having children of their own, once Tony had his vasectomy reversed.

He told MailOnline: ‘I want to propose to this beautiful lady.’

Sofiia said: ‘We are planning our life together. I want to be a mother. I want to have children.

‘I am a young woman so it can wait a few years and I hope that Tony can have his vasectomy reversed so that we can become a family together.’

As their ill-fated relationship made headlines, Tony revealed that he had suffered a torrent of abuse on social media over his decision to leave his family home.

He even spoke of his hopes of launching a pop career after recording a rap about their experiences.

Tony also insisted that his relationship with Lorna was already on the rocks before he met Sofiia.

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