A glamorous mother-of-three is facing up to eight years in a hellhole Spanish jail if convicted over a massive holiday food poisoning scam in an infamous Magaluf bar where a teenager performed sex acts for a drink.
Essex-born ex-pat Laura Holmes Cameron, 43, is one of eight accused of swindling three Majorca hotels out of around 9.5 million British pounds after tourists were convinced to make fake claims.
Cameron is being involved in one of the biggest holiday scandals in Spain with fraudulent claims. She can expect one of the tougher sentences of the group of eight Britons if she is proven to be the ringleader of the alleged racket.
According to AWM, Cameron flaunts everything she has and has obtained on social media. She describes herself as an “entrepreneur” who works in the travel trade and regularly “turns passions into paychecks,” which makes her appealing to eager people on social media who also want to live the life of their dreams.
In 2017, pregnant Cameron was pictured appearing to incur in Majorca. After that, she has constantly been in news along with her brother for the Cameron trial. She was arrested later at a luxury villa in upmarket Bending near the prestigious Majorcan port of Puerto Portals.
Cameron has three children with her husband Stuart Holmes who owns a hotel named Bar Heroes in Puerto Portals. Stuart’s hotel also came into the scandal as it was raided by police in 2017. Homes’ mother, Deborah Holmes was also investigated but not charged.
Well-placed insiders told DailyMail the type of fraud she is accused of – aggravated fraud – carries a prison sentence of up to six years in Spain and for the second charge she is facing a maximum jail sentence of two years.
One said: “She’s probably looking at five to eight years if convicted of both crimes. That’s likely to be the sort of sentence prosecutors will be seeking.”
The investigating judge who charged Cameron, under her maiden surname rather than her married name of Joyce, accused her in a six-page written ruling of ‘leading the profit-motivated organized gang’ with her brother Marc Cameron Grimstead through a Spanish company called Elite Project Marketing SL.
Palma-based Maria Perez Ruiz also accused the pair of hiring accomplices paid on commission to get British tourists on the holiday island to put in false food poisoning claims.
Detectives were said at the time of their arrests to have estimated the losses of the hotel groups whose fraud claims sparked a police crackdown dubbed Operation Claims at around 9.5 million British pounds.
DailyMail understands the final figure hoteliers and a state prosecutor will demand as compensation has not yet been finalized.