12 Oct, 2017 @ 13:58
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British girl who spent hundreds to meet Spanish holiday romance told it was ‘all a joke’ after arriving at airport in cruel ‘pull a pig’ prank

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Jesse and Sophie in Barcelona
Jesse and Sophie in Barcelona

A DUTCHMAN has denied tricking a British woman he met in Spain into flying to Amsterdam for a ‘pull a pig’ joke.

Sophie Stevenson claims she was left ‘humiliated’ after being stood up at Amsterdam airport by Jesse Mateman, who sent her the message: “You were pigged, it was all a joke.”

But Jesse claims he would only have texted her that to describe how they had sex while in Spain.

The ‘Pull A Pig’ game involves a group of men going out and trying to pull the most unattractive girl. The ‘winner’ is the man who attracts the ‘ugliest’ one.


After denying any previous relationship with her, Jesse’s lawyer has now admitted the pair did have sex while they were in Barcelona.


The pair got close after being caught up in August’s terrorist attack and they had a brief one night stand.


He said: “If Mateman used the word pig in a text message to Stevenson – which he cannot remember – it could only have been sent during his stay in Spain and can only relate to the way in which they had sex.”


Appearing on ITV’s This Morning, Sophie questioned what she would gain from making the story up.


She said: “It’s embarrassing, it’s humiliating. The only reason I’ve spoken out about this is because I don’t want this to happen to other girls.”

Sophie claims they had been texting since Barcelona and had discussed a long term relationship before the cruel prank.

But Jesse is now saying he plans to sue Sophie for what he says are untrue claims.

It comes after he claims he and his family have received abuse and threats online after the story went viral.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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