A BRITISH help employee freed after being held captive for 9 months by the Taliban has spoken of his pleasure at being reunited together with his spouse.
Kevin Cornwell, 54, was detained by secret police in Afghanistan after they raided his resort room.
He was thrown in a cell for 3 months where other inmates tried to radicalise him — and was held for 272 days in whole.
Kevin stated of the second he hugged spouse Kelly, who had been campaigning for his launch: “It was most likely one of the best second I’ve had in my life moreover seeing my kids being born. I couldn’t converse for a few minutes. I didn’t have the phrases.”
The previous soldier, from Middlesbrough, was working for the UN Refugee Company when he was arrested for possessing a gun, despite the fact that he had a certificates for the pistol which was in his secure for emergency use.
Whereas in captivity, he suffered bouts of sepsis and developed kidney stones.
Kevin — who served within the military for nearly 25 years, together with 12 years within the Royal Military Medical Corps — was lastly launched final month together with excessive vacationer Miles Routledge, 23, of Birmingham, and two different males who had been additionally being held.
His spouse thanked the Press for serving to her enhance stress on the UK Authorities and Taliban to launch him.
Kelly stated: “I don’t suppose he could be residence now if that stress hadn’t been added and if I hadn’t taken it to the Press within the first place.”
Kevin added: “I gained’t be going again to Afghanistan.”