Billy Irving has now been incarcerated in a prison in India for two long years. The former soldier from Connel has suffered unnecessarily while the British government’s staff at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have sat on their hands and have done little to help.
It is impossible for any of us to imagine what Billy is going through.
However, it is not just Billy himself who is suffering. His devoted and indomitable fiancée Yvonne Mac Hugh has fought a sustained campaign to keep his predicament in the public consciousness.