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Brit woman 'duped' out of £20k after online date kidnapped and beat her for eight months
Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A woman who thought she was going to be living the "American dream" was told by police that she "nearly ended up in a body bag" after she fell for a fraudster who allegedly kidnapped her overseas.Brit Ruth Tunnicliffe, 61, claims she was duped out of £20,000 after falling for a violent criminal who promised her a "business opportunity" when she was living in Cornwall.Instead he took her on a "transatlantic hell ride".The mum-of-three, who was fifty at the time, said she was going through a divorce with her now ex-husband when alleged fraudster Peter McMahon targeted her online and promised her a "whole new life" at the end of 2010.She said that he started stalking her on Facebook and