Nigel Brennan

It was always like Friday there's going to be massive amounts of people there.

There's going to be an imam there for sure, midday player.

And I was just like, well, actually it's true.

Like we could be moved at any stage.

I was like, right, today, midday, same thing.

You knock to the toilet, I'll follow you out.

And that part worked like clockwork, got into the bathroom.

Again, this time took all the bars out, put them down on the floor, got the bricks out and actually threw them out the window so there was no turning back.

boosted Amanda up, you know, she twisted, got out the window and disappeared.

And then I obviously pulled myself up, um, was struggling to sort of get out the window and I had to go head first and, um, went to grab onto the gutter of our house and it pretty much collapsed.

I nearly went headfirst down and managed to just scramble and grab myself.

I got out, jumped down, barefoot, feeling sand between my toes for the first time in months and started to pull on my shoes and looked down the alleyway and there's a young kid who we had seen when we were together in that one particular house because this is the second time we'd been at this house who literally saw us and just started screaming.

and saying something in Somali.

So I've just grabbed my bag and legged it the opposite direction.

Pretty much got to the edge of our house and the next door neighbour's house and in front of us there was all this briar bush.

So we could either turn left, which would take us back to the front of our compound,

so the only option was to turn right so i just literally you know best impersonation of usain bolt um dancing on air dancing on sand um sprinting no idea where amanda is by this stage as i sort of run past the neighbor's house uh look over my shoulder and see him standing at his at his front gate um and it computes in my mind him saying what are you doing in english

So to have been in that house for six weeks, knowing that there was an English speaker who had a window opposite mine, who I had considered flicking a note into that house, but was always too scared to because we'd been told that al-Shabaab were all around us.

Yeah, to have that compute in my mind that, oh my God, there's this English speaker next door and I just kept running.

As you're running.