A SCOT who rescued a lady from a infamous Islamic State detention camp has advised of his aid that her kidnapper has been dropped at justice.
Former squaddie Alan Duncan, 55, freed Naveen Rasho, 24, in 2019 from the Al-Hawl compound in north Syria, which holds murderous IS thugs.
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The brute who kidnapped her — a mum aged 37 named solely as Nadine Ok — has now been jailed for 9 years after a trial in Koblenz, in her native Germany.
Alan, of Elgin, advised The Scottish Solar on Sunday: “As I sat within the court docket listening to Naveen relive the horrors that she was put by way of, I broke down in tears.
“She needed to recount intimate particulars in entrance of individuals she didn’t know who spoke in a language she couldn’t perceive.
“She was extremely courageous and I’m so pleased with her — she’s like a daughter to me.
“Like so many different survivors, she by no means gave up hope.
“And I hope this trial is a step in direction of closure.”
Naveen was seized by IS fanatics in 2014 after her folks, Iraqi Yazidis, have been pressured from their homeland.
Over the following 5 years she was subjected to horrific abuse till her tormentors have been nabbed three years in the past by the Syrian Democratic Forces in 2019.
Alan, a sniper with the Kurdish Peshmerga military, met her as he secretly filmed IS members for a documentary on the camp overrun by extremists.
He sneaked her to security and she or he was finally reuni-ted along with her household.
Nadine Ok was convicted of utilizing weapons of warfare, sexual violence, human trafficking, crimes in opposition to humanity and aiding and abetting genocide.
She is believed to have travelled to Syria in 2014 to hitch IS along with her husband, who labored as a physician for the terrorist group.
That yr, Naveen and her household fled to the mountains for security however she was kidnapped along with her mum, who sadly died after being freed.
Naveen wore conventional Yazidi costume as she confronted her former captor eventually month’s trial in Germany.
Afterwards she mentioned: “I noticed quite a lot of torture and issue at her palms.
“She tortured me alone however when she violated me, she violated all Yazidis. It’s important for us for an IS fighter to be put in jail.”
Ex-British Military soldier Alan’s documentary, ‘Naveen: What about Justice for Us?’, is due for launch this yr.
He added: “Filming her over these final 4 years has been an extremely emotional and surreal journey.
“However Naveen by no means needed revenge. She needed justice, her voice heard and all the opposite victims’ voices heard.
“There are nonetheless 2,700 Yazidi ladies and youngsters lacking — we will’t neglect about them.”
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