Colin Armstrong, 78, was snatched from his villa alongside his girlfriend Katherine Paola Santos by 15 armed men on Saturday morning and was last seen being bundled into the back of a car.
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.
Colin Armstrong, a British millionaire living out in Ecuador, was kidnapped by his home by 15 gangsters before police tracked him down and freed him today, arresting nine men