'Nightmare' for two girls who commit fraud and - shock! go to jail

This story is reported on the Sydney Morning Herald site. Excerpt:

'Efforts were being made today to try to free two British women being held in an overcrowded Rio de Janeiro jail on suspicion of staging a robbery insurance scam, their lawyer told media.
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Police, suspicious because the women had taken three days to report the alleged theft and still had their passports, accompanied them back to their hostel near Copacabana beach.

There, a search of lockers turned up the mobile telephones and iPod the women said had been stolen.'

So their 'nightmare' is that they tried to commit insurance fraud, got caught out, and are now in the local jail waiting to be sentenced. Poor things...