Eventually Lisa secured a £5,000 Tesco loan to cover the money she had already given Sam, and a Santander loan for £15,000 for the bar.
In July, three weeks after her first visit, Lisa went back to Turkey with her cousin and was reunited with Sam.
Lisa says: “He told me he’d always wanted his own bar and had found one we could run together, as a partnership.
The following day, she went back to see Sam and the pair headed to Sam’s flat, which he rented by the night.
“He was still telling me he loved me, but was messaging less, blaming it on not having wifi,” says Lisa, who had planned another trip to Turkey in October.
