Jamie Lynn decoy demands $2m

A woman used as a decoy for Jamie Lynn Spears has demanded $2 million (£1.4 million) for what she describes as "false arrest".

Adessa Eskeridge was used by airport police last September in an attempt to fool waiting paparazzi into believing that she was the famous teenager.

Eskeridge, who was on the same Los Angeles-bound plane as Spears, was reportedly stopped by police and told that she was "going to help" them as they escorted her to baggage reclaim, allowing the real Spears to escape unnoticed.

In her claim for damages, Eskeridge's lawyer alleged that airport police "did not want to subject Ms Spears to the pushing, shoving, humiliation and possible physical injury that come with the paparazzi, but instead decided that Ms Eskeridge was not important enough to give the same protections to".

She suggested that her client was "deceived and manipulated" by police and that she had "suffered and continues to suffer great humiliation" as a result.

Eskeridge has reportedly threatened to sue police if the damages are not paid. Police have declined to comment.