And finally…frugal wife has belly full of husband’s philandering

After finding out her husband was having an affair, Sandra Milena Almeida decided to ingest £7,000 ($9,000) in cash rather than allow him to have a penny of it.

Her seemingly precipitous reaction only emerged after Mrs Almeida had to be taken to hospital with abdominal pains where doctors found bundles of notes inside her stomach.

It emerged that after finding out about her husband’s infidelity, Mrs Almeida hid the savings.

But when he found out the location, and apparently bereft of any other potentially suitable stash sites outwith her own body, she began eating the $100 notes.

Director of Surgery at the University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, told reporters: “57 $100 bills were found and extracted by the orifice opened in the stomach.

“Some extra rolls (of money) were found in the intestine, which advanced to the colon.”

“She ate rolls of bills, they were not wrapped up for any form of illicit transport,” he added.

“It seems it was an act of desperation by this woman, due to the problem she was facing, to ingest these elements, and this of course affects the patient’s normal intestinal functioning and life.”

Mrs Almeida, from Piedecuesta in the north-east of the country, is expected to make a full recovery.

“The dollar notes were washed and are in good condition, but the rest of the money was lost because of the gastric fluids,” said Mr Serrano.

Following the successful procedure to remove the cash, Sandra Milena Almeida said she was now saving for a luxury holiday.