A British grandmother and her daughter were detained by Spanish police on suspicion of masterminding a holiday sickness scam. Debbie Cameron, 59, and her heavily pregnant daughter, Laura Joyce, 28, were arrested at their villa in the suburb of Bendinat on Majorca this week. They are suspected of being ringleaders of a scam using touts at hotels to entice British tourists into faking symptoms of gastric illness to get compensation, legal sources have claimed in local media reports. Mrs Cameron has denied wrongdoing, saying that she was arrested as a result of confusion. Family members said that she had been released, while her daughter remained in custody, ahead of a court appearance.

Source: The Times September 07, 2017 00:11 UTC