One of the Chennai Six has released a new book revealing how they coped in an Indian prison.
Nick Dunn and five other former British ex-soldiers were working as security guards on a ship to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean when they were arrested on illegal weapons charges in October 2013.
Alongside Mr Dunn was Billy Irving, from Connel, near Oban, who was the first of the group to arrive back in the UK three years ago after they finally won an appeal against their convictions on November 27, 2017 and were given permission to leave India.
During the ordeal, Mr Irving lost three stone, contracted dysentery and was unable to see his son, William, grow up.
Mr Dunn has now revealed what the harrowing situation was like for the Chennai Six and described the conditions as “bleak, basic and dirty” in his new book, Surviving Hell.
They had to be prepared to fight off targeted attacks by staying in a group as stones were often thrown at them.
One day, a fight broke out with the other inmates who used crutches and chairs to attack them while they were visiting the prison doctor.
Mr Dunn described it as “complete pandemonium” with a “number of bodies” hitting the ground.
After the guards ended the fight, the other inmates were deterred from starting another one having watched how the previous fight went.
After finding out they had been acquitted after spending four years in the Indian prison, Mr Dunn wrote: “My knees just crumpled.”
“I was exploding inside.”