Britain's most wanted woman is taunting police with "catch me if you can" emails.

Fiona Mont, known as "Cat" and wanted in connection with a £300,000 computer fraud, is on the run with her boyfriend on the Continent after faking her suicide at Beachy Head.

While police search for Miss Mont, she has been sending emails to a daily newspaper, claiming she is being persecuted by the Sussex force.

In one, she offered to sell her story to the paper and in another she said she had no intention of surrendering, adding that police "will have to apprehend me, charge me and prove I am guilty."

Today, Det Con Steve Skerrett, heading the Sussex Police inquiry, urged Miss Mont to give herself up.

He said: "If she believes she is being persecuted then the best way to sort it out is for her to come back."

Miss Mont, from Hove, became the subject of a Europe-wide hunt after she disappeared while on bail.

The daughter of a former prominent Tory in East Sussex and an Under Sheriff, Miss Mont is accused of faking her own suicide to escape the law.

Her Rover 280 was found abandoned at Beachy Head. But a £10,000 search was called off two days later when her mother reported receiving a phone call.

Miss Mont was last seen flying out of Shoreham in a light aircraft piloted by convicted drugs dealer Graham Heskett, known as The Baron.

Educated at £6,975-a-year St Mary's Hall in Brighton, Miss Mont was nicknamed by a boyfriend who is now serving time in a French jail for drugs smuggling for her ability to stay one step ahead of the law. He said she had nine lives.

Police at Steyning want to interview her in connection with a major fraud inquiry. Computer companies were ripped off by a company which ordered equipment and never paid the bills, totalling about £300,000.