TWO British women were subjected to a horrific gang rape on a tropical holiday island

TWO British women were subjected to a horrific gang rape on a tropical holiday island it emerged today.The women, aged in their 30s, were camping on an idyllic beach on the Caribbean island of St Lucia when the attack took place.They were reportedly ambushed by a group of six masked men as they packed their belongings to move camp for the night.The terrifying assault happened shortly before midnight on Tuesday May 10, at the isolated Grande Anse Beach on the island's north east coast.The gang ran away when they noticed the headlights of an approaching car.Cops were questioning six men over the attack today.The female pals were apparently enjoying an environmental expedition on the far-flung tropical island and had been staying at the remote spot since the previous night.It is believed that...

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Fraudster Lynda Smith was so successful posing as a top businesswoman that she featured on a documentary about the rich and famous – eyeing up a luxury yacht.

The programme, called That’s Rich, also showed Smith at a glitzy charity event at a premiere of the Keira Knightley film Pride and Prejudice. To friends and investors, she was every inch the company director – even if she was seen as a little eccentric.Her Wilmslow home was littered with dozens of soft-toy frogs and frog ornaments, as well as expensive frog-shaped jewellery. But investigators from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills discovered that behind her lavish spending lay a web of lies and deception.The judge at Manchester Crown Court accepted Smith’s Les Frogs brand had enjoyed a ‘considerable measure’ of early success. But from the middle of 2003, Smith embarked on a series of bids for funding from banks, in which the jury had found she acted dishonestly.Smith had painstakingly...

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Klansman' gangsters are losing their grip on business in Spanish Town, St Catherine.

WITH the recent conviction of leader Tesha Miller and the deaths of several of their more notorious cronies, police say 'Klansman' gangsters are losing their grip on business in Spanish Town, St Catherine."Klansman is disappearing more and more and what we are seeing is a rise in the confidence and security of consumers and businesses," said Deputy Police Superintendent Victor Hamilton, one of the commanders in the St Catherine North police division. Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force on patrol in Spanish Town, St Catherine. (Observer file photo) 1/2 "Persons, bus operators and store owners, are breathing a sigh of relief because they can operate their businesses better and safer. That is the feedback we are getting, and we have been getting a lot of praises for it," Hamilton told the...

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