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Cathy Owen & Hollie Bone

British dad jailed in Yemen on suspicion of 'being a spy' finally free after five years

A British dad who spent five years locked up in Yemen after he was wrongly suspected of being a spy has finally been freed.

Luke Symons from Cardiff, Wales had travelled to the Middle East when he was just 20 and met his now-wife, Massir, in Yemen.

But the former barber, now 30, has been held by the Houthi authorities in the capital Sanaa ever since his arrest at a security checkpoint in the southwestern city of Ta’iz on April 4, 2017, Wales Online reports.

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