A WOMAN was punched in the face after she refused to buy what looked like fake gold.

Joanne Valentine was left with a swollen cheekbone and is now too frightened to go out.

She had just left her house in Chalkwell Road, Sittingbourne, and was walking along London Road towards the town when two cars full of what she thinks were foreign people, pulled up beside her.

Ready to give directions to the woman who got out assuming she was lost, she was instead punched in the face after refusing to buy a gold chain.

The victim claims nobody nearby stopped to help her as she stood shocked and injured on the pavement.

* See Friday's Sittingbourne edition of the Kent Messenger for the full, exclusive story.