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March 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Speaking to ITV news she said: “I am very relieved to have been released.
Seven months is a long time and under the circumstances with my husband
passing away … made it harder. I am just happy to be released and I’m
looking forward to seeing my son who successfully secured my release. I
don’t know how he did it, but he did. Which is great.”
Video footage on the BBC showed a thin-looking but apparently cheerful Mrs
Tebbutt, dressed in the flowing robes and coloured headscarf commonly worn
by Somali women, being led towards a small aeroplane.
A member of Tebbutt’s family has said that they were allowed to speak to
Judith while she was hostage.
Judith Tebbutt Photo: BBC
Ann Milligan, 58, who is the partner of Judith’s brother Stephen Atkinson, 61,
said:
“We were able to keep in contact with her as her captors allowed her to
phone us.
“As far as I know she is on her way to Nairobi at the moment.
“We will be having a huge celebration for her when she gets home.”
She was released in the Addado region, about 30 miles from the Ethiopian
border and about 310 miles northeast of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
A local resident said a ransom of $1.2 million was paid to secure her freedom,
but the figure could not be independently verified.
In a separate interview filmed before she was freed, Tebbutt said she had been
well treated by her captors.
She had been allowed to listen to the BBC World Service. She said listening to
the radio in the afternoon kept her going.
She spoke of her grief at her husband David’s death. In an emotional video
interview she talks of feeling “extremely sad, very, very sad indeed”.
She confirmed that she didn’t know he had died until two week after her
capture and talks of how “fantastic” her son has been.
David Tebbutt and his wife Judy were staying at the Kiwayu Safari Village
near the Kenya Somali border
Pirates in the region also hold hundreds of hostages seized from ships in the
Indian Ocean, and have in the past demanded multi-million dollar ransoms for
the release of captives and of boats.
A spokesman for David Cameron said it was not Government policy to pay
ransoms. “Our position is that we do not pay ransoms and we do not
facilitate concessions to hostage-takers,” he said.
Asked whether officials had advised the family not to pay a ransom, he
replied: “All I can say is that we have been in close contact
throughout.”
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