10 Oct Woman Travels 500 Miles To Meet Lover, Only To Learn That She’s A Victim Of Cruel “Pull A Pig” Prank

On August 17, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians in Barcelona, killing 16 people and injuring 152 others. The incident occurred a short distance away from Sophie Stevenson’s hotel room, which she was sharing with a friend. “On that day, we were so lucky, we’d just nipped out to buy some drinks and food and were sitting on the terrace when we started hearing gunshots,” recalls Stevenson.

Stevenson will never forget the traumatic event. Not only because of how hauntingly close she came to disaster, but because it was this harrowing event that threw her into the path of 21-year-old, Jesse Mateman.

Stevenson, from Stoke-on-Trent in England, met Mateman whilst their hotel was on lockdown following the terror attack. Mateman, who was staying at the hotel with three friends, looked after the two girls for the next four days of their trip. “[We] felt safe while we were there with them, so we hung out loads,” Stevenson remembers.

The close confinement and terrifying circumstances pushed Stevenson and Mateman together into a “proper holiday romance”, which led to them sleeping together and discussing “a long term relationship.”

Once the two had returned home, they continued talking every day. Mateman, from Amsterdam, then offered to come to Manchester to meet Stevenson. But later changed his mind and instead invited 24-year-old Stevenson to Amsterdam for a weekend.

Without hesitation Stevenson spent £350 on plane tickets and a hotel room, traveling from Manchester to Amsterdam on September 29 – over a month after they had initially met in Barcelona.

The two spoke just before Stevenson boarded the plane, where Mateman promised to meet her at the airport at 5pm. But as soon as Stevenson arrived, she quickly learned that something was wrong…

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