Kidnapped British businessman Colin Armstrong freed in Ecuador
Image source, Ecuadorean police Image caption, Ecuadorean police posted on social media that Mr Armstrong had been chanced on A prominent businessman from North Yorkshire who was once kidnapped in Ecuador has been released from captivity. Colin Armstrong, 78, was once abducted on Saturday from a farm he owned shut to the city of Guayaquil.
Ecuadorean police posted on social media that Mr Armstrong had been chanced on
A prominent businessman from North Yorkshire who was once kidnapped in Ecuador has been released from captivity.
Colin Armstrong, 78, was once abducted on Saturday from a farm he owned shut to the city of Guayaquil.
Mr Armstrong, who additionally owns the Forbidden Corner visitor attraction within the Yorkshire Dales, is the president of Ecuadorean agriculture firm Agripac.
His spokesperson Leo Morris said Mr Armstrong was once now with the police and authorities in Ecuador.
Mr Morris, who manages Forbidden Corner as smartly as Mr Armstrong’s affairs within the UK, said: “The staff, tenants, farmers and friends of Colin are completely gay on the records. It could perchance perchance no longer comprise come on the next time.”
The businessman would be spending Christmas with his family in South The usa, he added.
Mr Morris additionally praised the British Foreign and Commonwealth Workplace, pronouncing its workers had finished “a in actuality actual job” of helping the family and conserving them updated.
Image source, Tupgill Park Estate
Colin Armstrong founded North Yorkshire attraction The Forbidden Corner
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Chris Campbell, the British Ambassador in Ecuador, said he was once “gay” Mr Armstrong had been “safely released”.
Based on a message from the Ecuadorean police, additionally posted on X, Mr Armstrong was once chanced on on a avenue shut to Manabi.
Cesar Augusto Zapata Correa, Ecuador’s police chief, posted: “Our items released citizen Colin A, kidnapped a pair of days within the past in Los Rios. For the time being he is win and healthy.”
He added that 9 of us had been arrested in connection with the kidnap.
Mr Armstrong was once awarded the OBE and Companions of the Tell of St Michael and St George for services to the British Monarchy in 2011.
He was once a outmoded UK honorary consul to Guayaquil, Ecuador’s finest city, a voluntary feature which concerned supporting British pursuits and offering give a take to to British nationals who chanced on themselves in peril.
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