A British woman, Jody Pearson, also known as Jody Smart, is jailed in Spain after being convicted for leaving hundreds of UK expats out of pocket connected to a business that later collapses in the Costa Blanca region. She receives a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence, according to reports.

The accounts describe Pearson as an ex-model and frame the case as an expat financial loss involving a firm that fails after customers place money or trust in it. The coverage also notes that the victims are primarily UK residents living abroad in the area. The outlets present the same core outcome—her sentencing in Spain and the scale of affected expats—without offering additional, competing details on the underlying charges or specific amounts lost.