Brazil fraud case pair spared jail

Shanti Andrews and Rebecca Turner, both 23, admitted charges of attempted insurance fraud at a court hearing in Rio de Janeiro earlier this week.

Andrews, from Kent, and Turner, from Berkshire, were arrested on July 26 after allegedly telling police that belongings totalling about £1,000 were stolen during a bus journey while they were on a nine-month world tour.

The pair, who both studied at the University of Sussex, were given community service sentences, local media reported.