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British PoW Shaun Pinner celebrates escaping execution with egg McMuffin at home

Freed British prisoner of war Shaun Pinner used his sense of humour to get him through his horrific six-month ordeal.

And one of the first things to put a smile on the emaciated soldier’s face when he made it back to the UK was an egg McMuffin from McDonald’s.

Shaun’s mum Deborah Price, 66, who lived in dread after her captured son was given a death sentence by a sham Russian-controlled court in Ukraine, told the Sunday People : “His sense of humour has seen him through. The guys had a huge sense of humour to keep them going.

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