Ms Burke had been backpacking across North America when she was detained. She had been trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry, after trying to enter Canada.

Backpackers who stay in hostels represented 27 per cent of all arrivals with 100,336 visiting the state in the September 2007 quarter — by September 2024, that proportion had shrunk to just 7 ...

The traveler, who is from Monmouthshire in Wales, was backpacking through North America at the time. Burke had stayed with a host family in Portland, Oregon, performing chores for lodging ...

Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was detained for 19 days while on a backpacking trip around America. She was released back to the UK on Tuesday, having been led on to the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A British backpacker detained by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and held at a Tacoma detention center is back home in Wales, a source at ICE told KIRO 7 News.

According to The Seattle Times, 28-year-old Becky Burke was denied entry to Canada while on a backpacking trip and was detained when she tried to re-enter the U.S. She was subsequently held at the ...

Picture: The Surat Thani Provincial Public Relations Office One missing backpacker is feared dead. Picture: The Surat Thani Provincial Public Relations Office Koh Tao Police have charged the ...

A British backpacker who was detained in the US after border guards accused her of having the wrong visa has been released and is on her way back home to the UK. Rebecca Burke, 28, was on a ...

A huge air and sea mission has resumed in a desperate attempt to find missing backpacker Alexandra Clarke, from South London. The blaze on the Davy Jones Locker tourist boat reportedly erupted ...

The Backpacker Murderer spent the end of his life behind bars, convicted of the abduction, assault and robbery of two men and five women in NSW between 1989 and 1992. Milat maintained his ...