BENEATH his filthy hood, former British squaddie Shaun Pinner felt his Russian torturers attach electrodes to his trembling fingers.
When the 15-second blast of electricity came, it forced him upright from his chair in a “hyperactive spasm” that left him “twitching and drooling”.
Caught fighting on the front line for Ukraine, Shaun had also been starved, pistol-whipped, stabbed in the leg and “fried” with a cattle prod.
Now his sadistic captors planned to use him in a prisoner swap in exchange for pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
To break the news to the world, the goons insisted Shaun had to phone a British newspaper.