Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner and Battersea resident Shaker Aamer has been speaking out for the first time since he was released from the American prison in October.

Mr Aamer spent 14 years in the prison in Cuba, without trial, until he was finally sent home, to the joy of his hundreds of campaigners.

 

He told the Mail on Sunday about the sleep deprivation, the cold, and the isolation that he suffered in the prison.

He said: "You feel scared.

"You know you can get hurt, because there are some huge guys there, 18, 20 stone guys, muscular. You could be paralysed. Anything can happen. Anything."

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This week, a letter his daughter wrote to Jack Straw when he was foreign secretary was revealed by one of the campaign groups which fought tirelessly for his release.

The letter, written by Johnia Aamer when she was seven, said: "Can you please help me bring my dad any time.

"I wrote him many letters before, he used to love me when he was with us all.

"We are all sad and depressed.

"We used to cry a lot for him. Sometimes my mum cries a lot on her bed or on her chair and on the floor and I don't know how to stop her."

The young Miss Aamer also offered "10 pounds or 15 pounds" if Mr Straw could bring her father back to London.

It ends with an invitation to a party on his return.

She said: "You and us can have a party together with my dad and the whole family. Thank you very much and reply me back."