Sean Langan

I took out the photos of my children.

And then we heard it collapse and it had gone wrong.

I hit rock bottom.

But one day, the charming commander came into the room with a sat phone.

And he said, oh, look, negotiations have gone down.

So we want you to call Channel 4, your broadcaster, and tell them, you know, if they don't pay a ransom, we're going to kill you.

Being this charming guy, he put his arm around me.

He said, don't worry, we're not really going to kill you.

We tell them that all the time.

That's how we negotiate.

I step out into daylight for the first time into this compound, and it's a small compound, mud walls, a few animals in the courtyard.

But it was the daylight, and I'd been in darkness.

So I looked down, first of all, because the sunlight was blinding me.

And I looked down.

I'd lost a lot of weight.

I had malnutrition in there, mainly through lack of vitamin D, I think, from light and vitamin C. So I'd lost five teeth.

I look at my skin, and I'd lost so much weight.

It was like parchment paper stretched over bone.

I could see.

But I was covered in bites, flea bites and mites.