A British couple being held hostage by pirates said they were being looked after by their kidnappers.

A BRITISH man kidnapped by Somali pirates while on holiday on a yacht with his wife said in an interview released yesterday that the sea bandits had crept aboard with guns while he was asleep and demanded money.

A British man being held by Somali pirates today spoke of the moment armed men boarded the yacht he and his wife were sailing in the Indian Ocean.