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March 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“That was difficult,” she said. “I felt extremely sad; very, very sad indeed.
He was a good man. That was very unfortunate, really horrible. But you’ve
just got to pick up the pieces and move on.”
Mrs Tebbutt, from Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, was freed after a ransom of $1.1
million (£691,000), which had been raised by her family, was airdropped to
her kidnappers in the remote Adado region of central Somalia. A further
£129,000 was paid to middlemen who helped negotiate her release.
In a series of brief interviews with British broadcasters after her release,
Mrs Tebbutt, who is expected to return home today,described her 193 days of captivity.
“There were some very hard psychological moments,” she told ITV News, “but I
got through it, so I’m really relieved. I was moved around a bit from house
to house. It was very disorientating.” Later, in a statement, she said: “I
am of course hugely relieved to at last be free, and overjoyed to be
reunited with my son Ollie. This however is a time when my joy at being safe
again is overwhelmed by my immense grief, shared by Ollie and the wider
family, following David’s passing in September last year. My family and I
now need to grieve properly.”
The Tebbutts were on the first night of a planned two-week holiday at the
£280-a-night Kiwayu Safari Village in Kenya when they fell prey to the
pirates.
Judith Tebbutt Photo: BBC
They were sleeping in a cabin yards from the shore when the kidnappers
approached by sea at 4am on Sept 11 last year. David Tebbutt, 58, put up a
fight and died when he was shot in the chest. His wife was forced on to a
waiting speedboat, which reached Somali waters 30 miles away within an hour.
The Daily Telegraph understands that the pirates then sold Mrs Tebbutt for
approximately £200,000 to another militia group, Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama, about
a fortnight after the abduction. The kidnappers allowed her to make frequent
phone calls home, partly to make it easier to extract a ransom from her
family by proving she was still alive.
In a video she was allowed to record shortly before her release, which was
given to ITV News yesterday, she said: “My condition is good, as far as I
know. My health is good. I sleep very well here. I have been ill three times
in the seven months. On each occasion I have had medication almost
immediately.
“I feel fine. I have had absolutely no torture whatsoever. In fact I have been
made to feel as comfortable as possible by the pirates that are holding me.”
The Government has a policy of never paying ransoms for hostages, as it
encourages further kidnappings, but behind the scenes over the past seven
months Oliver Tebbutt was taking part in covert negotiations with middlemen,
said to include British citizens of Somali origin.
The negotiations culminated in the ransom being parachuted from a light
aircraft on Tuesday.
At 9am yesterday, Mrs Tebbutt was taken to a pre-arranged spot in the desert,
where she was picked up by local mediators. Looking drawn and wearing a
hijab-style garment over her head and upper body, she was driven to the
nearest police station and from there escorted to Adado, where a small
private aircraft was waiting on an airstrip to fly her to Nairobi.
Even before she had got to the British Consulate, one of her first requests
had been for a full English breakfast.
David Tebbutt and his wife Judy were staying at the Kiwayu Safari Village
near the Kenya Somali border
Oliver Tebbutt, 25, her only child, is believed to have flown to Nairobi when
it became clear his mother was to be released.
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