Man held over bogus emails sent to families of missing

A MAN is being questioned by police in England in connection with a series of hoax emails sent to friends and relatives of people missing following the tsunami.

The emails were sent to people who placed appeals for information on the Sky News website.

The messages, which purported to be from the “Foreign Office Bureau” in Thailand, told the relatives that their loved ones were dead. A 40-year-old man was initially arrested in Lincolnshire on New Year’s Eve in a joint operation between Scotland Yard and Lincolnshire Police.