Michael Thexton

She said, when we were asked to make these victim impact statements, we emailed them to each other.

even though we live in the same house.

And I mean, it was raw and it was brutal what she had gone through and what all these other people.

And I realized how lucky I had been to have been able to speak about this so many times to people who were interested in it.

And I felt much more at peace with the whole thing than all of these people.

And he was given a sentence of 160 years, which is, you know, almost medieval somehow.

The logic of it is that you'd be eligible for parole after a third of your sentence.

So they said three life sentences plus 25 years.

That means you've got to be dead before you're eligible for parole.

Nevertheless, he does have parole hearings.

I don't know how they've worked that out.

And every time he has a parole hearing, the Department of Justice turns up to object to it and say, no, he's supposed to be here for life.

And that is where he is.

He's in a federal prison in America.

And the others, his colleagues,

When they found out what had happened to him, they were all eligible for parole as well in Pakistan.

But they said for a while, actually, we'd rather just stay here.

We'd rather be in a Pakistani jail than in an American one.

And then Pakistan and America fell out of love with each other a bit.

And they were quietly released.