HOLS ‘POISON’ PAIR GO SCOFF TO PRISON

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A COUPLE who lied about getting food poisoning on holiday are facing jail.

Jade Muzoka, 27, and Leon Roberts, 38, had tried to claim compensation.

But they were forced to admit fraud after they shared pictures of them having fun in the sun and eating fancy dinners in the Turkish resort of Belek.

The body-builder pair had sued a Turkish hotel and tour operator Tui after claiming they were bedridden with vomiting and diarrhoea.

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seriously ill all the week of their holiday. And Roberts and mum-of-two Muzoka even supplied a doctor’s note to back up the fiddle.

Tui investigated the Cornelia Golf Resort and Spa, which boasts a disco, waterslides and a Nick Faldo-designed golf course, but found no evidence to support the couple’s claim.

The company then simply “checked on Facebook” and the game was up.

A Tui spokesman said: “Apparently from social media it appears both had a very enjoyable time.

“Their claim was false.”

Muzoka and Roberts both pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court.

Muzoka admitted she made an “exaggerated claim” after going to a “no win, no fee” solicitor.

District judge Jonathan Taffe told the deceitful former lovers he would pass a sentence to “send a message to others”. He said: “It is a very real problem for the holiday companies.

“The costs are inevitably passed on to genuine people, while others who do suffer illness on their holidays have their claims met with scepticism.”

GUILTY PLEA: Roberts A judge warned them they now face “another break, this time behind bars” as he vowed to make an example out of them to stop the “tsunami” of false claims. Tui, formerly known as Thomson, said they could have lost £50,000 had the...