Former hostages say family will help Johnston’s recovery
Retired banker Peter Shaw, from Maesteg, south Wales, who spent five months in captivity after being seized by a paramilitary group in the former Soviet republic of Georgia where he had been working for the European Commission in 2002, described the initial realisation of freedom as “amazing”.
Peace activist Norman Kember, held hostage in Iraq from November 2005 to March last year, said his over-riding memory was of lying awake on his first night of freedom, his mind “ticking over”.
