In his first interview since he tasted freedom after 12 years behind bars,Ahmad tells how he became the longest-serving UK prisoner to be detained without chargeBabar Ahmad presses the tip of his forefinger into the middle of his brow. “Can you see that mark?” he asks. “That’s where the shrapnel struck my cranium. It’s still embedded just below that red mark – a small ball-bearing from a hand grenade, buried in the middle of my cranium.”Ahmad, and a public schoolboy who grew up in Tooting,south London, where he served in the RAF cadets, or suffered the wound while attacking Bosnian Serb positions at the height of the war in Bosnia when he was aged 21.
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Source: theguardian.com