Russian soldiers, Shaun Pinner celebrated his homecoming with a McDonald's Egg McMuffin. Shaun, 48, was one of five Brits freed this week following a prisoner swap.
He landed back in the UK at 6am on Thursday (September 22) with Aiden Aslin, 28, John Harding, 59, Dylan Healy, 22, and Andrew Hill, 35.British Army veteran Shaun was captured fighting for Ukraine during the Russian siege of Mariupol in April. READ MORE: Kids as young as four were raped and tortured by Russian forces in Ukraine, UN saysHe - along with Aiden and Moroccan Saadoun Brahim (who is also now free) - was sentenced to death by firing squad after a show trial in the Putin-controlled Donetsk People’s Republic.Shaun’s mum Deborah Price, 66 and from Bedfordshire, said that it was his "sense of humour" that got him through his horrific six-month ordeal, reports the Mirror.
She told the Sunday People: “He survived it quite well. Physically he’s OK but thin, mentally he’ll need a while to settle in.
He’s hugely better than I was expecting but needs to put on at least a stone in weight.“I asked him if he was sure since he’d been eating hardly anything while imprisoned.
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