TALKING TURKEY

A British man has been jailed for three months after pretending he lost a daughter in the Asian tsunami of 2004.

Philip Bosson (above) aged 39, from Devon, even flew out to Sri Lanka and identified a girl's body as his 19 year old only child Kayleigh.

But it turned out that 'Kayleigh' had never even existed. The name had been taken from his favourite hit song by the 1980s rock band Marillion.

Police spent many hours and thousands of pounds checking for a DNA match between Bosson and the bodies of hundreds of western victims.

But they became suspicious when Bosson started to become unhelpful and abusive and changed his story about the spelling of Kayleigh's name.

Whether prison is really the right place for someone with such serious psychiatric issues is highly doubtful.

But then the UK locks up more of its citizens per head of population than any other European country except Turkey (if you accept Turkey is a European country, and many in the European Union don't).

Now we know why Tony Blair is so desperate for Turkey to join the EU - just to make Britain look good by comparison.