Tourist returns stolen artefacts from Pompeii 'after suffering curse'

Candian woman sends back pilfered ceramics, blaming them for years of bad luck

A tourist who pilfered fragments from the ancient city of Pompeii 15 years ago has returned the artefacts, claiming they were cursed".

The Canadian woman, identified only as Nicole, sent a package containing two mosaic tiles, parts of an amphora and a piece of ceramics to a travel agent in Pompeii, in southern Italy, alongside a letter of confession.