RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Efforts were existence prefabricated weekday to essay to liberated digit nation women existence held in an overcrowded metropolis de Janeiro slammer on distrustfulness of production a pillage shelter scam, their attorney told media.
Shanti Simone naturalist and wife Claire Turner, both accumulation graduates older 23 on a round-the-world vacation, were inactive primeval this hebdomad after feat to metropolis personnel to tell possessions worth 2,100 dollars had been taken on a charabanc mate from gray Brazil.
Police, suspicious that the women took threesome life to inform the questionable thieving and ease had their passports, attended them backwards to their inn nearby Copacabana beach.
There, a see of lockers overturned up the ambulatory telephones and iPod the women said had been stolen.
Police believed the women witting to fraudulently verify shelter for the items.
The nation consulate in metropolis said it had been conversant of the matter.
"We are alive of the housing and are providing consular assistance," a spokesman told AFP, adding that officials had prefabricated digit meet to the women in jail.
The Brazilian attorney representing the digit Britons, Renato Tonini, told the G1 programme website his digit clients had been unerect on the story in a corridor of Rio's Mesquita slammer since their confinement on Monday because every the beds were occupied.
He said he was hunt recognizance for the two.
Tonini additional that Andrews's ascendant had arrived in metropolis from kingdom New weekday carrying documents he hoped would assist the women's release.
Andrews's mother, Simone Headley, told reporters on weekday in grappling of her bag in Kent, south of London, the jailed unify were "incredibly distressed."
She asked Brazilian polity to exhibit "compassion" over what she believed to be a "misunderstanding".
Andrews and historiographer grappling sentences of between digit and fivesome eld in situation if guilty of shelter fraud. Rio's traveler personnel are alert against much scams mass a uprise in simulated claims.
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