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Scots dad Brian Glendinning opens up on 'mental torture' of Iraq prison hell

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A Scots dad has spoken for the first time on his Iraq prison hell after being locked up with murderers and terrorists for 70 days over an unpaid debt with a Qatar bank.Brian Glendinning, 43, was incarcerated in a Baghdad jail after being arrested at Basra International Airport when he travelled to the country to start a new job on September 4.The emotional dad-of-three told the Daily Record he fears he will never be able put his ordeal behind him after suffering weeks of mental torture from corrupt jail staff.Brian, of Kincardine, Fife, recalled spending his nights hearing 'grown-men squealing in pain' as they endured savage beatings from prison staff and said police and guards demanded his terrified family send thousands of pounds in exchange for his freedom and survival.Brian said: "What I've been through mentally over the last few months is horrific.

I was thrown in a tiny cell and forced to sleep next to murderers, rapists and terrorists."I heard guards battering the living daylights out of people.

I can still hear the sounds of grown-men squealing in pain as the guards kicked them and whipped them with hoses."All my personal belongings were stripped of me.

They took everything from me. Even my wedding ring. The conditions I lived in were vile and there were massive rats swarming the cell."I was also given hell for not having the same religious beliefs as the other inmates and hassled rigorously for not praying when they did."They told me my family needed to send £30,000 to pay for a lawyer, but I now know that was lies.

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