A groom-to-be was left "totally inconsolable" after his fiancée ditched him at the airport the day before their wedding and fled with his bags and £5,000 cash.
The pair, in their 40s, told check-in staff at Heathrow they were flying to Rome to tie the knot after getting engaged a day earlier.
But when the man went to the toilets and left the woman with their suitcases she disappeared and took everything with her, The Sun reports.
The devastated man, said to be British, told Terminal 5 staff she had left with the £5,000 he'd given her for their wedding.
One onlooker said: “He was in bits — totally inconsolable. Apparently, they’d only met very recently and he’d fallen head-over-heels for her. He’d proposed a day earlier and she’d accepted.
“They’d planned to marry in Rome and were about to fly there. Then she did a runner while he went to the loo and vanished with all their belongings."
The person said staff had looked everywhere for her but she was nowhere to be found. It wasn’t even clear they added if she’d walked out of the airport or got on a plane.
“In the end, the police were called. Even her name was in doubt by then,” they said.
Last night a Met Police spokeswoman confirmed they were called to investigate.
She said enquiries continue and no arrests have been made at this time.
The Mirror has previously reported on a mum who thought she met her dream man but later found out he was a so-called "Tinder Swindler" - who had conned her out of her life savings and cost her her job.
Sunita Brittain, 51, was convinced "Michael Anderson" was the love of her life - and fell for him after meeting online.
He told her he was a successful businessman and multi-millionaire working as a global engineer and cryptocurrency analyst.
They exchanged thousands of messages and photos, and he even told her he loved her and wanted to spend his life with her - even though they had never met.
But, in chilling echoes of the hit Netflix show "The Tinder Swindler", he then began asking for money.
He said he needed £9,000 to get him out of a jail in Northern Cyprus – following an "accident" at his engineering project out there. To read the whole story click here.
