Frederick Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Two girls get arrested for a £1.300 insurance fraud attempt and end up in jail in Rio...yet to go before a judge ...Mum talks to a newspaper about her daughter and said This is just a " misdemeanour .". Police have overreacted .. they deserve a slap but they are not criminals this is just an error of judgement ..and... It will be storey to look back on and tell their grandchildren .... If the judge reads this English paper or sees it on line ..will mum wish she had kept her mouth shut if he gives her daughter a couple of years ? I think I know where the error of judgement is here ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 One year and five months sentance changed to 16 months community service ..They have to fund their own stay in Rio and might get their passports back after 8 months .... After a guilty plea the prosecution wanted to charge them with "wasting Police time "as well as the fraud ..Lucky they did not go back to prison. This might slow down the back packer "rip off the travel insurance company " problem that is growing .. A misdemeanor according to mum . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Yes, exactly, what a stupid mother!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 And it was reported that these two little rascals are 'law students' - whoops.Think that if Mum has made any insurance claims over the past couple of years, any enterprising insurance company she is with may be looking at their data base :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 I was a mature backpacker (44) when I took my gap year before moving to France, as a consequence my travel insurance premium was much much higher than if I had been in my 20's, OK I accepted that there was perhaps more risk of a medical claim although I didnt.Whilst I really enjoy the company of the younger generation and I met and am still in touch with some really special people what really galled me was the high percentage young travellers whose idea of a gap year meant seeing the world via a series of capital city bars usually in the order Capetown, Sidney, Auckland, Bangkok and Los Angeles (with a hedonistic week in Fiji for the brave) and trying out as many (to them) exotic drugs as possible.This subset of youth was invariably just out of "uni" had never worked and was being funded by their parents, until that is they heard the dreaded words "no more, you have spunked away enough, come home and get a job" at this point they started "maxing out" the credit cards that they had collected and in almost every case, just before taking their final flight home they sold their digital cameras etc and reported them as stolen to claim on the travel insurance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Mmmmm...............Law students.They obviously hadn't got to the part of the syllabus about fraud and how it is actually, a criminal offence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 No, they are studying law,......just from the other end [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 But according to a newspaper report they may not be allowed to continue their studies in that direction when they return to UK................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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