Statement from Somali kidnap victim Judith Tebbutt

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(picture ITV)



British hostage Judith Tebbutt has released a statement since her release saying sheis “hugely relieved” to be free.

The 56-year-old from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, was flown to Nairobi, Kenya, after her family paid the pirates a ransom for her release.

Her husband David, 58, was shot by a gang of six men at their remote holiday resort in Kiwayu, north of Lamu island. 


Mrs Tebbutt asked for time and privacy to "grieve properly".

“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.

“I would like to thank everybody who has supported Ollie throughout this ordeal.  I am now looking forward to returning home to family and friends whom I have missed so very much.

“I hope that while I adjust to my freedom and the devastating loss of my husband, that I and my family will be allowed space, time and most of all privacy, to come to terms with the events of the last six months.”

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