it was excellent. he is actually confessing his crimes to you? yes. so after the three months, then, you, but, as far as i understand, it from what lorinda had told me, you are the person on the phone? yes. i m working. right. you are supposed to get some money? yes. do you know how much? no, i do not know, but i was expecting more than what they give me. what did they give you? $10,000. and after that meeting, you walk out? yes. we signed the contract, everybody is very happy. we were walking out, i told him we were going for a tour of ottawa. but that did not happen. you were both arrested? you are arrested as, well because you were still undercover? uniformed police handcuffed both of us. adam must have totally been shocked? yes, you could see his face, he was clearly thrown by this. and i had to play up, get your hands off my client, what are you doing here? this is ridiculous! they handcuffed us both, let us of indifferent directions. i went for a
being kidnapped, one morning, the captors came for amanda and her colleague, nigel. they were taken out of their room and marched outside. there he was, the man known as adam. we were terrified. i had a small video camera and he was brought out and we were told to beg for our lives. september 17th, 2008. lorinda turned on the tv in canada and saw this a hostage video on all josie era. she was crushed. it was the first time she d seen amanda and she didn t look good. how are you feeling as you watched it? i just want to bring her home. i never let her go. weeks turned two months. and then their captors
million for me by one week, they will kill me. okay? your daughter, a world away, in the hands of kidnappers. amanda money, money, money, money both mother and daughter traumatize in their own ways by a callous capture. i understand. their stories are intertwined with. amanda my head was pulled back and there was a serrated knife. and her mother. lorinda stewart. did you keep it together? i did. i had to be strong for her. driven by strength, courage and endurance, these women would not only survive this ordeal, but their determination in a completely new chapter of their story would ultimately lead them to triumph over one of the man who had terrorized than so brutally and it would take an elaborate international sting. it sounds like something out of the movie
prisoner, that was also the truth now. it was a reversal. exactly. and he looked so small, in a way, sitting in that box. in her testimony, amanda spoke openly about how adam terrorized her. she was on the stand for one, long day. okay, my name is adam, and i am from mogadishu. but her mom lorinda spent three days in court listening to the phone calls that would prove crucial to the case. i am not lying to you. you do not want amanda to be home. because if you want, you should pay the money. again, you had to relive it? yes. it was empowering, the truth was being told. and there was a small part of me that actually felt sorry for him. compassion for him? adam s defense was that he,
<strong>The long read</strong>: Official policy in the UK and US – unlike in many other countries – is to never make concessions to kidnappers. Those taken sometimes die as a result. Is it time to rethink?