UK family arrested in US for 'inadvertently crossing border'

Four adults and three children were held in 'baby jail' in what they call 'scariest experience' of their lives

The Foreign Office is helping a British family of seven who were arrested in the US and subject to the "scariest experience" of their lives at the hands of the immigration authorities after inadvertently crossing the border from Canada.

David and Eileen Connors and their three-month-old son were on a family road trip on 3 October near Vancouver with David's cousin Michael, his wife Grace, and their two-year-old twin daughters.