Jack Laurence

Amanda and Nigel would be kept together and placed in the very end room.

As soon as they arrive, Amanda asks to use the bathroom.

It's a strategic move, because the day prior the pair had been out with the African Union forces, and Amanda had numerous photos on her camera of the soldiers.

Photos that she feared might be seen by their captives as reasons for violence, and she wanted to try and get rid of them as quickly as possible.

It's all happening so fast, just out of nowhere, you know, all of a sudden you've been taken.

You don't know where you are, you don't know who these people are.

Does anything go through your mind or is it happening so fast that you don't really have time to think?

Their first night in captivity, four men would come into the room.

One being Ahmed, the man who'd been in the vehicle with them when they were kidnapped.

Another man who called himself Adam and would be the group's negotiator when it came to ransom money.

There was an older gentleman referred to as Captain Yaya and another guy who remained masked and it would seem would be acting as the more intimidating member of the group.

So, of course, we've touched on government ransoms in our previous story with British journalist Sean Langan when we spoke about the fact that the UK government does not negotiate with terrorists for the simple reason that they believe that should they start doing so, then their citizens become a much greater target for these types of groups.

And Australia is no different, as is Canada.

And Nigel and Amanda knew this, but their captives seemed to believe otherwise and stated plain and simply that if they didn't pay,

there would be grave consequences.

And they don't even know you're in Somalia.

Chapter 5.

If you become Muslim, then we wouldn't be able to kill you.

I mean, hearing those words would be insanely sobering, I would imagine.

The situation is as serious as it can be.