Pensioner held on word of FBI is released

A BRITISH pensioner who was imprisoned in South Africa after the FBI mistook him for a dangerous fugitive broke down in tears as he told yesterday of his “enormous relief” at being released.

Derek Bond, a 72-year-old from Bristol, said his constant protestations of innocence “made little impact” on the FBI, which ordered his detention.

His voice quivering with emotion he told a news conference: “I was getting quite despondent.”