We make no apology for returning this week to the plight faced by Connel ex-paratrooper Billy Irving, who remains languishing in a prison in India.
Billy is one of six British ex-servicemen sentenced to five years in prison after a ship they were working on to combat Somali pirates in the India Ocean strayed into Indian territorial waters.
Billy’s fiancée, Yvonne MacHugh, and the other men’s relatives have campaigned tirelessly to have the British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office intervene to secure their release from what have been described as appalling conditions. To say that the government has been found wanting is an understatement.