· Father of snatched child says no ransom was paid
· Intense security service pressure led to freedom
Sarah Knapton
Monday July 9, 2007
Margaret Hill, the three-year-old British girl abducted by gunmen in southern Nigeria last week, was last night released and returned to her parents. She was unharmed apart from a rash of mosquito bites, and apparently in good spirits as she told reporters on the telephone that she was “fine”.
The little girl, who was seized from a chauffeur-driven car on her way to school last Thursday, was released after Nigerian security services piled pressure on the group holding her, according to her father, Mike Hill. “She’s in a bit of a trance,” he said. “She is covered in mosquito bites. I am going to have to get her to the clinic, because she will need some injections. She’s been in the bush. And I don’t think they fed her very much.” read more
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