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10 year sentence for Lindsay and Craig Foreman.

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Sago Thu 19-Feb-26 09:27:18

This couple set of on a round the world motorcycle trip and ignored FO advice to avoid Iran.

They now face 10 year jail sentences for spying and espionage.

Were they arrogant, naive or possibly guilty?

Allira Sun 22-Feb-26 13:44:36

rafichagran

Plevey08

Well Allira....I think you best stick to a day trip to Bognor Regis....watch out for the pigeons though, they don't only nick your chips, they might peck off your nose. Best check FO first or HO as they might advise against it 😃

Oh, Prevey stop with your stupid remarks to a poster who made a reasonable argument.

You clearly cannot formulate a argument without getting rude and disrespectful.

Fact is they made a stupid desition when all the facts were there. They ignored advice from friends, the Foreign Office, and they must have been aware of what happened to Nazanin. They are arrogant fools and now it's going to take alot of time, effort and money to get them released.
Are you a friend of these fools by any chance? You serm to taking it very personally, and being rude to a poster with a valid opinion reflects badly on you.

Thanks rafichgran and others 🙂
It was a very daft post - anyway, as George V said "B*gger Bognor"!

I had a great deal of sympathy for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe because her case was totally different. She is a British Iranian dual national whose parents are in Iran and she went on a family visit so they could meet their grandchild.
Charges against her were trumped up and her child had to remain in Iran too for the first five years of her life.

Knowing what happened to an innocent Iranian British dual national, you'd think this couple would have thought twice about going to Iran and interviewing people about life there.

Allira Sun 22-Feb-26 13:49:36

Witzend

Allira

^Bognor Regis is the most dangerous medium-sized town in West Sussex, and is among the top 10 most dangerous overall out of West Sussex's 161 towns, villages, and cities.^

Dh’s old aunt lived in Bognor, very close to the seafront, but TBH the only danger we ever faced there was her ire if lunch (brought and cooked by me) wasn’t on the table on the dot of 12.30.
Her usual greeting to us on opening the door was, ‘I’m starving!’ 😂

We had formerly always taken her out for lunch, but whatever she ever had it was too hot, too cold, too tough, too sloppy, they don’t know how to make pastry any more….

Witzend 😁

Fallingstar Sun 22-Feb-26 14:05:18

You are right Allira, Nazanin had parents and other family members in Iran, I can fully understand why she would go there with her child. I imagine with family there nobody imagined it would happen to her, the risk would be thought to be much reduced. So in her case was completely unexpected. It was in fact her dual nationality that let her down, we have an Iranian family living on our street, lovely people, but when they travel back to Iran to see family they only ever show their Iranian passport on entry to Iran and keep their British passport in their luggage to show when they re-enter the UK. Otherwise they could be detained.

Allira Sun 22-Feb-26 14:26:00

Very sensible, Fallingstar.

MayBee70 Sun 22-Feb-26 16:39:16

Allira

^Bognor Regis is the most dangerous medium-sized town in West Sussex, and is among the top 10 most dangerous overall out of West Sussex's 161 towns, villages, and cities.^

The only time I’ve ever been to Bognor was the day before a bomb ( IRA?) went off the following day…

Rosie51 Sun 22-Feb-26 16:44:13

Yes it was an IRA bomb MayBee70, fortunately it was only buildings destroyed not people. There was another bomb planted somewhere else in the town, can't remember where, but that was found and disarmed.

Allira Sun 22-Feb-26 16:48:25

I'd forgotten that, Maybee.
Yes, they were targeting English tourist places.

StoneofDestiny Mon 23-Feb-26 13:03:41

I have as much sympathy for them as I do for people who travel abroad without proper travel insurance. They get into trouble and then set up 'go fund me' pages for others to pay for their repatriation.
People all have to take responsibility for their own actions and not expect others to bail them out.