Briton freed from Saudi jail ‘was tortured’

A BRITISH man freed this week after being jailed in Saudi Arabia with six other westerners for organising bomb attacks has said he was tortured into confessing, it was reported yesterday.

Alexander 'Sandy' Mitchell, from Glasgow in Scotland, said he was so scarred by the experience he would probably never leave Britain again.

The 47-year-old said that the five Britons, a Canadian and a Belgian imprisoned for the bomb attacks which many suspected were in fact the work of Islamic extremists had faced unspecified torture.