British woman arrested in US

Plantation Key - A British housewife, Ms Tracey Whalin (33), faces up to 20

Plantation Key - A British housewife, Ms Tracey Whalin (33), faces up to 20

years in a US prison after being charged with offences including sexually assaulting a child, police in Florida said yesterday.

Ms Whalin disappeared from her Nottinghamshire home on July 14th at the same time as 14-year-old schoolboy Sean Kinsella. She was arrested last night at a flats complex in Plantation Key, southern Florida. The teenager was with her and was taken into "protective custody". - (PA)