We Curled Up Together in the Cell and Held Each Other's Hands. It Was Terrifying... ; Exclusive: After Dramatic Release Late Last Night, British Graduates Tell of Rio Jail Nightmare - 25 Criminals to a 10x12ft Rat-Infested Cell... The Fear They Would Never Be Released ... And the Frantic Calls for Help to Their Despairing Parents [Edition 3]

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TWO British law graduates accused of a holiday insurance fraud in Brazil last night told of their terrifying ordeal in a notoriously dangerous women's jail.

After backpackers Shanti Andrews and Becky Turner, both 23, were released on bail last night, they told The Mail on Sunday of the filthy, rat-infested conditions of the past six miserable days.

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We Curled Up Together in the Cell and Held Each Other's Hands. It Was Terrifying... ; Exclusive: After Dramatic Release Late Last Night, British Graduates Tell of Rio Jail Nightmare - 25 Criminals to a 10x12ft Rat-Infested Cell... The Fear They Would Never Be Released ... And the Frantic Calls for Help to Their Despairing Parents [Edition 3]

The pair say they 'couldn't stop shaking and shivering' in Polinter de Mesquita prison in a run-down district on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro which houses drug traffickers, robbers and murderers and is beset by gang violence - with foreigners said to be at particular risk. But when they were moved to a second prison, it was like entering 'the gates of hell'.

Descibing their first jail, Rebecca said: 'It was a living nightmare. It was the most terrifying thing that ever happened to me in my life. They only spoke Portuguese and we only spoke English a...

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