Bridlington bride's warning after bigamy ordeal.

Julie Stead, 28, was forced into marrying her Gambian boyfriend while on holiday in the country, under the threat of being left stranded there.

Ms Stead, a carer from the town, said she was taken to a white building in the city of Banjul where she was told by boyfriend Ahmed Jobe's family that the two of them must marry a or she would be stranded with no money or passport.

The reluctant bride, who had met Jobe in a nightclub five months earlier, in May 2006, said: "I didn't know what to say. I just froze.

"He told me if I didn't he was going to leave me there. I didn't see any way out because he had my passport and I didn't know where I …