Who is Sandy Hunter? Glamour model and Instagram star who ‘romped with Amir Khan’ and faces jail for gun charge
She has pleading guilty to stashing a loaded 9mm handgun in her wardrobe
GLAMOUR model Sandy Hunter hit the headlines for meeting Amir Khan for a hotel tryst hours after he played happy families with his wife on TV.
Now she faces jail for having a loaded handgun in her wardrobe — here's what we know.
Who is Sandy Hunter?
Sandy, 33, who also goes by the name Sandy Rae Hunter, is a glamour model and Instagram star.
She describes herself on the social platform as "TV personality, published model, ring girl and actress".
Sandy's Instagram page features dozens of photos of her posing for the camera in bikinis and underwear.
In 2017 she appeared on Channel 5 reality show One Night With My Ex alongside her former lover Jayden Fresh.
Personal trainer Jayden starred briefly in MTV's Ex On The Beach and once dated Kerry Katona.
Sandy has a daughter aged ten and lives in Dagenham, Essex.
When did Sandy Hunter meet Amir Khan?
In January 2018 The Sun told how love cheat boxer Khan had a passionate tryst with Hunter hours after boasting of being a family man on TV.
He sat alongside pregnant Faryal Makhdoom on the Good Morning Britain sofa on Monday insisting they had resolved their marital problems.
An hour later I'm A Celeb star Khan was messaging Sandy asking her to meet him at a hotel in London's Docklands.
She arrived at 8pm and the pair had rum cocktails before heading up to the boxer’s room, where she says he slapped her bottom and kissed her..
Sandy said: “It was obvious what Amir wanted from the start. The minute we were alone in the lift, he pulled me against him and his hands were everywhere.
“When we were in the hotel room he asked me if my bum was real and then gave it a slap before pushing me up against a wardrobe hard and trying to kiss me.
“He told me I had an amazing body and was exactly his type — ‘a bit of him’. Then he tried to kiss me again and I let him that time.”
She said Khan bombarded her with messages after that, insisting they would sleep together on their next meeting, but she refused.
Why was Sandy Hunter in court?
Hunter wept in the dock at Maidstone crown court as she admitted a string of offences including possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.
She had denied wrongdoing but changed her plea to guilty on the first day of her trial on Tuesday, January 30.
The court heard police had raided her home in Dagenham in 2016 and found a Parabellum 9mm semi-automatic pistol in the wardrobe in her bedroom.
It was in a velvet bag, stuffed inside a holdall among boxes of shoes, and was in "plain sight" as the wardrobe had no doors.
The gun magazine contained 15 bullets and a further 26 loose cartridges were also found.
Hunter told cops she had no knowledge of the gun and said she had “a lot of enemies”.
But phone messages to her then-boyfriend Spencer Tapper, 37, showed “clear evidence of her knowledge of the gun and cartridges”, prosecutors said.
She called the gun a “ting” in a WhatsApp exchange about it being dropped off and collected from her home.
And in one message she told Tapper she would kill another woman with the weapon.
Tapper also changed his pleas as the trial got under way, admitting possessing the Parabellum and a Colt handgun and 50 bullets cops found when they stopped him on the M2 in Kent.
The pair will be sentenced with two other men on February 8.
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But he also decided to plead guilty to alternative charges as the prosecution opened the case against him.
He admitted possessing the prohibited Parabellum gun and possessing Parabellum ammunition, as well as possessing the prohibited Colt handgun and possessing 50 bullet cartridges.
They will be sentenced with two other men on February 8.