The story appears on

Page A11

August 5, 2011

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

Related News

HomeWorld

More Brits stay out of trouble abroad

DESPITE continuing tales of drunkenness and mayhem involving Brits on holiday, the number of UK citizens who ran into legal trouble abroad dropped in the last year, according to a Foreign Office report yesterday.

The highest number of arrests of UK citizens was in Spain, but countries with the most drug-related arrests included Jamaica, Argentina, Brazil, Serbia and Peru.

And people remain at risk for such exotic crimes as wearing camouflage in Barbados, said the report, because more than two-thirds of Britons do not research local laws before going away.

Others infringements to avoid are wearing a bikini in the streets of Barcelona and making jokes about the Thai royal family.

Proportionally, UK citizens were most likely to be arrested in the US and Thailand, the report said, but the total number of British arrests across the world dropped by over 10 percent from the previous year.

 

Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.

娌叕缃戝畨澶 31010602000204鍙

Email this to your friend