Colin Armstrong, 78, who who was kidnapped in Ecuador is pictured in Lake Como with his Colombian girlfriend last year, as the police reveal the bomb vest she was made to wear was fake.
Exactly a week ago, that former honorary British Consul Colin Armstrong OBE was snatched by 15 men dressed in fake police uniforms at the start of a terrifying and somewhat surreal kidnapping ordeal
The story reads a little like a Graham Greene novel reimagined for the Narcos audience. The protagonist looks like John Waters playing Leslie Phillips playing Alan Whicker. The setting’s exotic, the supporting cast extraordinary, the details bizarre. But for Colin Armstrong, the ordeal of the past four days must have felt all too real, and all too scary.