From bikini babe to burka-clad jihadi fighter with a crossbow: 'Wife' of Kosher supermarket killer becomes France's most wanted woman after going on the run

• Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is the 'wife' of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and four hostages in a kosher bakery
• Coulibaly was then killed as commandos stormed building
• But accomplice Boumeddiene is on the loose and police warn she is dangerous
• Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi also killed as they tried to fight their way out of a print works 25 miles from Paris

Hayat Boumeddiene (left)

By Fidelma Cook and Peter Allen In France and Jenny Stanton For Mailonline

Wearing a skimpy bikini with her arms wrapped around her lover's waist, this is Hayat Boumeddiene before she turned into a jihadi killer's accomplice and became France's most wanted woman.

Photographs of the 'wife' of the Kosher supermarket hostage killer reveal how she was radicalised by the man she would go on to marry.

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly is dead, one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed.

Now, 26-year-old Boumeddiene is on the run and is believed to be 'armed and dangerous'.

Coulibaly died in a hail of bullets along with four hostages in the storming of the Jewish supermarket.

But Boumeddiene may have eluded capture during the confusion as the hostages were running away, police said.

The couple 'married' in a religious ceremony after Boumedienne, who was never seen without her veil, waited four years for him to come out of jail following his conviction for armed robbery.

The couple were never married in a civil ceremony – the only marriage legally accepted in France.

While Coulibaly had a well documented track record, Boumeddiene tonight remains a shadowy figure.

But it’s becoming clear that the one-time cashier was radicalised after meeting the man she would marry.

She is from an Algerian background and altered her surname to ‘make it sound more French', according to an investigating source.

She told police who interviewed her as part of their inquiries into Coulibaly’s murky dealings with Islamic extremists that she had walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in the Juvisy suburb of Paris in 2009 and taken the veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibay.

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