British widow loses appeal over New Zealand arrest

A British tourist who claimed she was traumatised when New Zealand police mistook her husband for a fugitive criminal lost an appeal seeking to press her £440,000 (€666,300) claim for damages.

Margaret Fyfe and her late husband Robert had guns trained on them and were made to lie on a wet road when an elite police squad swooped on the pair as they drove to Wellington Airport for their flight back to Scotland.