Schoolgirl's school detention costs family £1,340

A student has cost her family more than £1,340 after she skipped a 90-minute detention.

The 14-year-old girl spent two years taking legal action against the school after they issued her minor the punishment for skiing down an off-limit slope while on a school trip in eastern Switzerland in 2011, but the youngster lost her case at the country's highest court and her family have to folk out the hefty fine.

The pupil was given a 90-minute detention along with other offending students but she refused to show up on time and her family hired a private lawyer to dispute the punishment to both the school and the regional education department.

However, following their failed attempts, the case was taken to the court.