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Pakistani man jailed for 60 years for kidnapping a five-year-old British boy
London (PPI) - A Pakistani man has been jailed for 60 years for kidnapping a five-year-old British boy who was on holiday in the country, Daily Mail newspaper reported on Friday. Sahil Saeed Naqqash, from Oldham, was snatched from his grandparents’ house in central Pakistan in March last year.
The robbers held his family at gunpoint and demanded a £100,000 ransom for his release. His father, Raja Saeed, 28, handed over the sum in Paris following a series of phone calls to end his son’s 13 day ordeal. The child was released by his captors unharmed almost two weeks after he vanished and was found wandering shoeless with his head shaved in village Dinga, Punjab.
On Friday, an official in Rawalpindi said the court ordered that all belongings and property of the kidnapper, Imran Husain, be seized. It handed down the verdict today but gave no more details.
Sahil had travelled to Pakistan with his father Raja Saeed, 28, to visit family in Jhelum, Punjab. They were preparing to fly back to Britain on March 3 when gunmen struck at his grandmother’s house.
Saeed said he and other family members were beaten and tortured for six hours by a gang armed with guns and grenades. The raiders took jewellery and money and fled with the boy before demanding £100,000 in a telephone call. Relatives and friends rallied round donating savings, selling family heirlooms and expensive jewellery to raise the money for boy’s release.
The kidnap sparked an international police investigation, which led them to a flat in Spanish city of Tarronga, 60 miles from Barcelona, where three people were arrested.
Speaking last year when Sahil was found, his mother Akila Naqqash, 31, a supermarket worker, said her sister-in-law burst into her bedroom at 4.20am to break the news. "I thought it was a dream. I am over the moon. I couldn’t believe it. We are overjoyed. The past few weeks have been really hard."
"I couldn’t see his face, I just had to turn the TV off because of all false information. He was going on and on and on about his toys and his sisters and everything - a normal little boy. It was amazing." Speaking of ransom, she said: ‘We don’t have that kind of money lying around." The couple have two other children, Anisha, four, and Hafsah, 21 months.
The robbers held his family at gunpoint and demanded a £100,000 ransom for his release. His father, Raja Saeed, 28, handed over the sum in Paris following a series of phone calls to end his son’s 13 day ordeal. The child was released by his captors unharmed almost two weeks after he vanished and was found wandering shoeless with his head shaved in village Dinga, Punjab.
On Friday, an official in Rawalpindi said the court ordered that all belongings and property of the kidnapper, Imran Husain, be seized. It handed down the verdict today but gave no more details.
Sahil had travelled to Pakistan with his father Raja Saeed, 28, to visit family in Jhelum, Punjab. They were preparing to fly back to Britain on March 3 when gunmen struck at his grandmother’s house.
Saeed said he and other family members were beaten and tortured for six hours by a gang armed with guns and grenades. The raiders took jewellery and money and fled with the boy before demanding £100,000 in a telephone call. Relatives and friends rallied round donating savings, selling family heirlooms and expensive jewellery to raise the money for boy’s release.
The kidnap sparked an international police investigation, which led them to a flat in Spanish city of Tarronga, 60 miles from Barcelona, where three people were arrested.
Speaking last year when Sahil was found, his mother Akila Naqqash, 31, a supermarket worker, said her sister-in-law burst into her bedroom at 4.20am to break the news. "I thought it was a dream. I am over the moon. I couldn’t believe it. We are overjoyed. The past few weeks have been really hard."
"I couldn’t see his face, I just had to turn the TV off because of all false information. He was going on and on and on about his toys and his sisters and everything - a normal little boy. It was amazing." Speaking of ransom, she said: ‘We don’t have that kind of money lying around." The couple have two other children, Anisha, four, and Hafsah, 21 months.
