Jack Laurence

In isolation, you find out exactly who you are.

At this point, Barry is just shy of a decade of being incarcerated in India.

Three years and eight months waiting to be sentenced and now another six waiting for the decision from the High Court.

Once the High Court had heard all of the evidence against him, they would take another three months to hand down their decision.

Barry was finally a free man and heading home from being a prisoner for almost 10 years.

And sadly, when he arrives back in the UK, COVID hits not long after, and then he would lose two of his closest supporters not long after his release.

You'd think after his experience he would never want to set foot back in India ever again.

But, strangely, he says that not long after he returned home he felt that he would like to go back to Goa.

However, thankfully, he would never actually make it.

Completely the opposite direction.

Barry Holtz found himself held essentially captive.

Now, of course, he was being held as a prisoner by authorities that believed him to have broken the law.

The conditions were terrible and his day-to-day life was bleak.

But as he said, he never faced violence, never really feared too much for his life.

For him, it was the mental anguish of not knowing when he would be able to return home to his family.

In Barry's worst-case scenario, that could have meant 20 years behind bars in India.

A pretty heavy emotional toll.

However, what would happen if you took all of that anguish, all of that emotional toll, and added the fact that you may never go home?

That your captives may in fact murder you to make a political statement?

What if your captives weren't people who were part of a recognised judicial system?