As TikTok star languishes in hellhole Dubai prison and faces firing squad for killing her boyfriend, we reveal his secret WIFE, their life together and family's anguish

Published: 01:00, 2 July 2026 | Updated: 01:00, 2 July 2026 Like swathes of wannabe influencers across Britain, Brooke Keisha George wanted nothing more than to be famous. Until recently she’d kept her 100,000 or so TikTok followers gripped with videos about lip plumpers, fake eyelashes and her trademark razor-clam nails. But that was before the 23-year-old from Gravesend in Kent packed her bags and set off for the sun-bleached beaches of Dubai, irresistibly drawn to the endless sunshine, the palm tree-lined boulevards and a British man she met online. It was here that she was arrested and charged last week with the premeditated murder of 26-year-old Bill Treeby, a man it, was revealed this week, who had a previous conviction for attacking a woman in the UK and was due to stand trial here next year on drugs charges. With Brooke now languishing behind bars in the notorious Bur Dubai Police Station, the human rights group Detained in Dubai has alleged that she only stabbed Bill with a kitchen knife in self-defence after he viciously attacked her and confiscated her passport. Warning that if found guilty she could face a firing squad, they insist she should be treated as a ‘domestic violence survivor’. Her frantic mother Tess has also begged for help for her ‘absolutely terrified’ daughter who she fears won’t receive a fair trial in the Gulf state. Bill’s family, who also live in Kent, have been left devastated by his death. They include his grieving 54-year-old mother Karen and, the Daily Mail can reveal, his devastated wife Ellie. ‘Words can’t describe how I’m feeling right now,’ 24-year-old Ellie wrote on Facebook last week. Until recently, Brooke George had kept her 100,000 or so TikTok followers gripped with videos about lip plumpers, fake eyelashes and her trademark razor-clam nails Bill Treeby, 26, had a previous conviction for attacking a woman in the UK  ‘A part of me died with you. The world is cruel.’ While information coming out of Dubai is still sketchy, what is clear is that the mothers of both Brooke and Bill each believe their own child to be the real victim at the heart of this grim story. Compounding Karen Treeby’s grief is the fact that her son’s death comes 15 years after his own father was murdered in horrific circumstances in Kent. Meanwhile, Tess George, a 55-year-old mother-of-six, claims that her daughter, a former John Lewis worker, was lured to Dubai after meeting Bill online and, the second time she visited, subjected to violence at his hands. She claimed this week that other men were living at Bill’s apartment and coming and going throughout the day while Brooke, who had no idea what Bill did for a living, was left on her own for hours at a time while her new boyfriend went off to meet people or spent hours online. Her daughter became ‘scared’, Tess told the Sun this week, when one of the men began accompanying the couple around the city. She is now appealing for police in Dubai to trace him, believing he may have witnessed Bill’s behaviour towards Brooke. While the details of exactly what happened between the pair are still to be established, what is clear is that both Brooke George and Bill Treeby were drawn to a place where, behind the glossy Instagram images pedalled by a stream of influencers, darker realities lie. Bill appears to have moved there in November 2025 from the run-down Rainham council estate where his family live, grandly describing himself as a CEO on Facebook and posting a photograph of a state-of-the-art Rolls-Royce with a Dubai number plate. It’s a vehicle which appears in dozens of social media posts across Instagram, suggesting it’s hired out to influencers keen to create an impression of wealth. In reality, he had a chequered past. He was given a suspended prison sentence for wounding and common assault at Maidstone Crown Court in 2023 and was due to stand trial next year charged in connection with plotting to supply cocaine and cannabis worth £80,000. He was one of seven suspects charged after an investigation by Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team. In April, he was joined there for a holiday by Ellie. The couple described themselves as husband and wife online. During her visit Ellie posted dozens of pictures of herself at some of the emirate’s most glamorous hotspots. They included Kyma Beach Club - a spot favoured by alleged Dubai conman Lee Andrews and his wife Katie Price who often conduct photoshoots there - and Bohemia by 5 on Palm Jumeirah, where footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been seen. By all accounts Ellie and Bill’s relationship was a good one. On his Instagram page Bill had a heart emoji next to ‘married’ status. But at the same time, in April, he and Brooke began chatting via Facebook. According to her mother, ‘there was a sense of safety’ because their families lived barely 12 miles from each other. In May, Brooke - who has previously worked at Gravity Active trampoline centre and John Lewis at Bluewater Shopping Centre near Dartford - travelled to Dubai for two and half weeks. Brooke's mother, Tess George, claims that her daughter, a former John Lewis worker, was lured to Dubai after meeting Bill online During her visit Ellie posted several pictures of herself at some of the emirate’s most glamorous hotspots Speaking to the Sun this week, Tess said her daughter’s first visit was positive, with Brooke describing it as ‘the time of my life’ after being taken to luxury restaurants, ‘fancy’ clubs, beaches and beauty spots. ‘It was day after day of stuff. She felt so special. She was excited. It was a lifetime experience to go to a beautiful country and spend some time with a man with whom she thought there could be a potential long-term relationship, that she could be spending a life-time with.’ While there, she took part in a professional beach photoshoot, apparently organised by Bill, posing confidently in a skimpy leopard-print bikini with the city’s dramatic skyline behind her. She excitedly phoned home to tell her family about the modelling shoot. She said that her daughter returned to Kent believing she had met ‘the man of my dreams’ after he made her feel ‘special’. During second visit this month, however, Brooke is said to have claimed that Bill’s behaviour towards her changed dramatically. She was there for only three days before things took a devastating turn. According to Detained in Dubai: ’She alleges he became increasingly controlling and abusive, and that she discovered he had booked her a one way ticket, leaving her alarmed and wanting to return home.’ According to Tess: ‘The day before the incident she did not seem like herself. She was quieter and not her usual happy, cheerful self, but she did not tell me why.’ Things came to a head after a lively night out at McCafferty’s in Jumeirah Village, the biggest Irish bar in the world. According to Brooke, the mysterious man who started accompanying the pair drove them to the bar. According to her mother she later claimed: ‘I knew something was going to happen to me. I was shaking. I knew something was wrong.’ Brooke was so alarmed that she contacted her family who arranged a flight home. But first she needed to get her passport from Bill’s apartment. According to the account Brooke gave to Detained In Dubai, Bill became intoxicated and assaulted her in the car on the way back before continuing the attack after they returned to his apartment. Tess told the Sun this week that the man who accompanied them might have witnessed what happened and could be a crucial witness who might back up Brooke’s insistence that she acted in self-defence. It is understood that, aside from Bill and Brooke, there were also two of Bill’s friends and a maid at the apartment that night. She claims that her daughter contacted her in a state of panic and ‘scared for her life’ after ‘being repeatedly punched’. ‘She was absolutely terrified,’ she said this week. ‘I have never seen my daughter so frightened in my life. She was crying uncontrollably. I could see that one of her eyes was badly swollen and was beginning to close. ‘She kept saying: “Mum, I’m scared”, over and over again.’ Brooke allegedly told Tess that Bill had become more and more abusive. She recalls being contacted by her daughter who was ‘scared for her life’ after ‘being repeatedly punched’ The only version of what happened next is contained in a statement from Detained in Dubai. ’Desperate to leave the UAE, she arranged a flight home with help from friends and returned to the apartment solely to recover her passport. ‘She found her personal possessions sprawled over the apartment. ‘The family say she was crying and begging for her passport’s return when she was punched hard in the face and attacked. ‘Brooke says she feared for her life and, reaching for a kitchen knife within her grasp, acted in self defence.’ After killing Bill, Brooke - ‘believing she needed to get away and get home’ - fled the apartment with just her passport and phone. She had no money but her family arranged an Uber to take her to the airport where she was arrested in the early hours of June 22. She was taken to Bur Dubai Police Station where, her family claim, she suffered a ‘deeply humiliating and distressing’ ordeal after being forced to strip naked in front of male officers without any women present. They also say she was forced to make statements without a lawyer present. ‘I love her with all my heart. She’s my baby,’ said her mother Tess, adding that people needed to be aware that while Dubai was ‘a beautiful country’ it also harbours a darker side. ‘I can’t believe this has happened,’ she said, adding that she had sympathy with Bill’s family. ‘I can’t imagine losing one of my children. She is distraught about that. The family have lost a child, a family member, someone they deeply love. I fully have empathy with the family for the grief and the loss they are going though. But I have to fight for her to be able to tell her story about how frightened she was. ‘I understand there’s a process. I’m not saying she shouldn’t go to court and go through some form of judicial process but I need it to be in such a way that she is able to voice her concerns in their entirety.’ Radha Stirling, CEO of Detained in Dubai, said: ‘She should be treated not merely as an accused person, but as a presumed victim of violence who allegations and documented injuries deserve proper investigation.’ Brooke’s grandmother Dorothy George told the Daily Mail that she rarely sees her granddaughter but had heard the news and was worried about her. ‘It’s a huge shock,’ she said. ‘It’s completely out of character. Things like that don’t happen in our family. I can’t believe it.’ Meanwhile, Bill’s family have also been pouring out their grief online. On Facebook, Ellie posted broken heart emojis on dozens of photographs of her late husband, including some of him cuddling a puppy and his niece. Friends paid tribute to his kindness. Writing of her ‘darling son’, his mother Karen said she was ‘broken’. His sister Esther, just 13 months apart in age, said her ‘best brother’ was an ‘adored’ uncle to her toddler daughter, adding: ‘My heart can’t heal’. She also wrote: ‘I know dad will be happy and looking after you.’ The father she is referring to is Jack Treeby who died, aged 43, in 2009 after being run down by a Range Rover driven by his own brother, whose name was also Bill Treeby, after a property dispute over land left to them by their late mother. Hundreds turned out to see Jack’s gold coffin carried through the streets of Rainham in a carriage pulled by four black horses and followed by seven flat-bed lorries covered in floral tributes. Bill Treeby senior and his sons, Billy and George, were later found guilty of murder at Maidstone Crown Court in 2010. But at the end of the nine-week trial, Bill Treeby senior hanged himself in his cell at Elmsley Prison before he could be sentenced. Brooke, a former travel and tourism student, is certainly not the first Brit to discover that Dubai’s glittering facade conceals unforgiving laws and severe punishments. In 2024, 18-year-old Marcus Fakana spent nearly a year in prison after having consensual sex with a 17-year-old in the Gulf State. He was released in 2025 after receiving a royal pardon before dying in London during a police chase just three months later. Three years earlier, football coach Billy Hood from London was jailed for ten years after CBD vape oil was found in his car, despite a clemency request from the Foreign Office. British businessman Ryan Cornelius, jailed for defrauding a Dubai bank in 2008, is still behind bars and not due to be released until 2038. Amid ongoing regional instability in the Gulf, which has seen Dubai come under attack from Iranian drones, the UAE has tightened security even further and warned that any breach of the law will be dealt with swiftly. The future undoubtedly looks bleak for Brooke George. A spokesman for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: ‘We are supporting a British national detained in the UAE and are in contact with the local authorities and the family.’ While far from being the only young woman to have tried to make a name for herself via social media, Brooke couldn’t have foreseen the circumstances in which she would ultimately make headline news. It goes without saying that online views of her videos have now gone through the roof. ‘I don’t give a f*** if I do things wrong,’ she says in one of them. ‘I’m just living because everybody makes mistakes. Mistakes are fine to make.’ It’s hard to believe she feels that way now. No comments have so far been submitted. 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