By Tim Stickings For Mailonline
Published: 01:36 GMT, 1 February 2019 | Updated: 02:05 GMT, 1 February 2019
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Leighanne Rumney (pictured) was stabbed and scalped by a violent gypsy gang in Portugal
A British woman was stabbed and scalped by a violent gypsy gang in Portugal who claimed she was having an affair with a married man.
Leighanne Rumney, from South Shields, was allegedly kidnapped by relatives of the man who they wrongly believed she was seeing.
The 22-year-old was reportedly targeted in a 'ritual shaming' in a Portuguese forest by gypsies who stabbed her and chopped off her long blonde hair.
She had to run away naked and flag down a car to escape the horror attack, The Sun reported.
She is said to have attracted interest from a Roma gypsy while working as a waitress at a bar in Alubfeira, in the Algarve, but said they had never dated.
However the gypsy family wrongly believed they