BEAUTIFUL INTERRACIAL LOVE AFFAIR GOES TRAGICALLY WRONG

It was a romance like no other. She was a past-her-sell-by-date, 39-year-old British woman still looking for love. He was a happy-go-lucky, part-time drug dealer from Burkina Faso. 

Facebook, like cupid's winged arrow, brought them together and she moved to Germany to be with the man of her dreams -- 37-year-old Mamadou Jallow. What could possibly go wrong?

The woman...travelled to Germany to live with him. But she claimed that he was forced to flee the country after knifing a rival during a drugs dispute and they ended up in Italy. When they arrived, it is claimed that Jallow emptied her bank account and forced her into a room at an isolated house and subjected her to sex attacks.

The sex attacks also included two of Jallow's associates from Mali, who also repeatedly raped her. 

After two weeks, she was able to get access to her confiscated phone and made a desperate call to her family. They had already contacted Interpol having not heard from her for several months. Police traced her mobile to the house, called her and convinced her to flee - giving her directions to follow. 

Jallow was arrested shortly after, and has now been charged with kidnapping, enslavement, aggravated and continued sexual violence, and theft. The unnamed British woman meanwhile is recovering in hospital. 

Let us hope this less than perfect romantic experience does not deter her from continuing to seek the path of true love in the future.