An elderly woman who was held for months without charge in Afghanistan alongside her husband began teaching her fellow prisoners while she was detained.

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, were freed by the Taliban on Friday after being held for nearly eight months following their arrest as they travelled to their home in central Afghanistan.

The pair arrived at Heathrow Airport on Saturday afternoon, and in the Sunday Times Mr Reynolds told of his fear after their arrest in February they were “being held until we were executed”.

They were held without charge in a maximum security prison, including long periods of separation.

Mr and Mrs Reynolds had lived in Afghanistan for nearly two decades and ran a training and education organisation.

“We had begun to think that we

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