Aid worker `raped repeatedly'

London - A British aid worker held hostage in Chechnya was raped repeatedly over several months by a masked gunman while her …

London - A British aid worker held hostage in Chechnya was raped repeatedly over several months by a masked gunman while her partner was chained in a nearby room, she said yesterday.

Ms Camilla Carr (40) said her captors beat her companion, Mr Jon James (38), threatened to cut off his fingers, to put him in a cage with tarantulas and psychologically tortured them with a mock execution.

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